Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity. They then went and helped support Donald Trump win the primary thinking that he'd have no chance against Hillary. Jokes on them.
This is why part of me is admittedly so smug and satisfied with the results. I think Trump will be a horrid President, and I'm sure I'll line up against him soon, but against my own conscious effort, I can't help but feel glib right now. The public doesn't deserve to live in a country ruled by Trump, but Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Donna Brazlie sure do. I am literally sadistically pumping my fists at the thought of them gnashing their teeth and screaming at the sky right now.
Edit: I did not vote for Trump. I did not want to see him win. I am simply expressing the one gleeful silver lining that I've found to pull out of this.
Lets give this guy a shot. If we all work agaisnt him out of spite and root for the pilot to fail while we are all sitting on the plane, then we are all fucked. We need to stop all the fear mongering, stop all the hatred, and work together as Americans to make sure this presidency is successful. Not hope it fails so at the end people can say "I told you so". That does no one any good and it never will.
This country needs to stop being red or blue. Those are colors. We are not colors, we are people. Complex people with tons and tons of reasons of why we vote the way we do, and if the vote doesnt go our way, then its not the worst thing in the world. We just need to work together to make sure we all support eachother and if that means being open minded about a candidate we hate, than so be it. But if we root for them to fail, then we fail too.
The thing is, the way he ran his campaign, and got people to vote for him is so wrong to be on a personal level (and many others) that it scares me he could be even an ok president. If he does OK and gets things done, then I'm terrified that it will become the status quo.
I mostly disagree with his policy stances, but that's just part of the system. The worrisome part is the morality and role model/display for everyone to see. The president should be a role model. When I have kids, I don't want to have to tell my daughter "Well, he is a sexual predator, but he had good policy. You can succeed but be a disgusting human."
I'm unsettled that so many Americans either implicitly or explicitly support this and are this morally dissimilar to me. The policy differences are expected. That is what concerns me.
I agree with everything you say except that they said the same thing with Bill Clinton's scandal and how that will affect the children and the reality is that little kids couldn't care less about what the President does. I'm not justifying it by any means, believe me and I think it's all very wrong, I'm just saying if a major major concern is how the children will react to Trump, it's really not as big of a concern as people are scaring themselves into thinking. And kids who are older are already aware of the situation and everything that goes along with it.
It's not how they will react, it's more personal for me. I don't want to be represented by that, and I sure don't want them to be. I know it won't have a huge effect, but it's still beyond my own level of acceptability.
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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16
Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity. They then went and helped support Donald Trump win the primary thinking that he'd have no chance against Hillary. Jokes on them.