9th August 2016, 12:31 PM
Dang it Hillary, Henry?! You're chumming up with Henry "here's how you commit war crimes without complaints" Kissinger?
Ack! Just when I was starting to actually get enthusiastic about the platform policy, you go and do something like this. If it's as bad as people are suggesting (and that remains to be seen just yet), it's enough to put me in the "anybody but Hillary" camp....
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In four years...
This is why having only one choice is bad. When Trump is "yelling at a baby" terrible, and the other candidates are so vanishingly insignificant that my own state won't even recognize them as options, it means the democratic candidate can do whatever she wants with barely any consequences. The republican party is imploding, and I for one am okay with that (and I'd also be okay with a rational, humanistic republican party rising from the ashes), but we've got to have real choices here. This is why I can't ever really get on board with claiming a party alliance too. My previous decision stands. Hillary is, of the two, far more likely to get policies in place that align with my values than Trump. It's just that this is a reminder that it'll very likely only be a few things, and I'm starting to think that the health care "public option" won't be one of those things after all (it'll get toned down into yet another expansion that, while it'll help some, doesn't quite cover the people closest to me). In four years, when Trump is flatly denied a rerun in the republican party, I'll be taking a good long look at what else is out there. With any luck, some serious shake-ups will occur by then.
I've voted for a lot of reasons, but this will be the first election where my vote amounts to a stay of execution. In some ways literally, if Trump's questions about why we don't use nukes more often to solve our problems is any indication. From the heights of hope to the pits of despair. And ABF wonders why Bernie supporters were so adamant....
Ack! Just when I was starting to actually get enthusiastic about the platform policy, you go and do something like this. If it's as bad as people are suggesting (and that remains to be seen just yet), it's enough to put me in the "anybody but Hillary" camp....
...
In four years...
This is why having only one choice is bad. When Trump is "yelling at a baby" terrible, and the other candidates are so vanishingly insignificant that my own state won't even recognize them as options, it means the democratic candidate can do whatever she wants with barely any consequences. The republican party is imploding, and I for one am okay with that (and I'd also be okay with a rational, humanistic republican party rising from the ashes), but we've got to have real choices here. This is why I can't ever really get on board with claiming a party alliance too. My previous decision stands. Hillary is, of the two, far more likely to get policies in place that align with my values than Trump. It's just that this is a reminder that it'll very likely only be a few things, and I'm starting to think that the health care "public option" won't be one of those things after all (it'll get toned down into yet another expansion that, while it'll help some, doesn't quite cover the people closest to me). In four years, when Trump is flatly denied a rerun in the republican party, I'll be taking a good long look at what else is out there. With any luck, some serious shake-ups will occur by then.
I've voted for a lot of reasons, but this will be the first election where my vote amounts to a stay of execution. In some ways literally, if Trump's questions about why we don't use nukes more often to solve our problems is any indication. From the heights of hope to the pits of despair. And ABF wonders why Bernie supporters were so adamant....
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)