What Should Bother Us All:

What Should Bother Us All:

"I REMAIN MUCH MORE BOTHERED BY WHAT HILLARY HAS DONE THAN BY WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID"

This was the message in a Facebook post one of my friends shared".

I've been trying ever so hard to stay out of the political discussion, but decided that I just can't.

Several of my friends are staunch Trump supporters.  That's ok - they are entitled to their opinion/decision/etc.  I don't take it upon myself to question their choice, they have their reasons that make sense to them.

Many others are strong for Hillary (or were for Bernie) and I don't question them either.  

Personally, I don't think there's a perfect choice this year, or maybe not even a good one, depending on your priorities.  I think it's a matter of picking who you feel will do the least damage, and that's a sad, sorry way to elect the leader of our country. 

Hillary has indeed done some things throughout her career that are questionable choices, whether or not they are in the end proven to be illegal (or to even have happened in some of the cases shouted about on social media).  I've never been a big fan, even though I'd be thrilled to have a woman in the White House, the same as I was thrilled to have a First Family of color.

BUT - what Donald Trump has said.  He has made it clear he opposes rights for women, minorities, and anyone else who doesn't agree with and cheer for him.  A headline today says he wants to remove press credentials for New York Times reporters, so they cannot cover his events.  Why?  Because they don't agree with him, because 'the press treats him unfairly' - because they report what he says and does that he later claims he didn't say (or mean the way it was said) or do (or mean the way it was done). 

It doesn't bother you that he made fun of a physically disabled reporter at one of his events?

It doesn't bother you that he has mocked and belittled females?

It doesn't bother you that he won't reveal his tax returns?

It doesn't bother you that he speaks out, in crude, bullying, mocking and belittling ways against anything and anyone that doesn't agree with his own thoughts and agenda?

It doesn't bother you that he's encouraged, if not downright incited violence against anything and anyone that doesn't agree with the same?

It doesn't bother you that his 'self-made' billions actually started with millions given him by his father, and grew on defaulted loans and questionable business dealings?

It doesn't bother you that there are criminal charges made against him: rape of a minor, defrauding students at the 'Trump University', to name just two (of 3,500 according to one story) that have made headlines.

It doesn't bother you that his reaction to anything and anyone who doesn't agree with and cheer for him is anger, mockery, and bluster - up to and including saying that if he doesn't win the election it is because it is rigged - not that, oh, gee, enough people saw through your schoolyard bully tactics to not want those in the White House?

It doesn't bother you that these very things are questionable if not downright dangerous qualities for the leader of our country, the man who can create peace and growth in all areas (financial, people's rights, culture, the future) or create havoc and worse in all those areas, to have?

It bothers me.

It bothers me that the qualities he does have: anger, revenge, bullying, bluster and, yes, BS, will only drag our country down.  And it really, really bothers me - it makes me very afraid for the future - is that this man and the way he has shown himself to be will either bring a full-scale war to our country or 'push the red button' that annihilates the world.

This should bother everyone.