I can't say this on Facebook. I can't say this anywhere if people will read this. So I say this here, where I get 3 hits a month, by those who all know me..
I will vote for you, I will vote for Alfred E. Newman, I will vote for my Once And Former Self, I will vote for a convicted Serial Killer, I will vote for FDR (again, if I could!), I will vote for my dog Seamus (again! - for real!), I will vote for the Grim Reaper!. . .before I will ever vote for Donald Trump!
I want my grandchildren to grow old enough to see adulthood. And I truly fear they won't with that Messianic, Misogynic, Bully-Headed (Make Fun Of Anyone) Moron as President.
I'm old now. This isn't for me. But for them, my grandchildren. They could have lived long enough to change the world if they could have lived long enough to live in it. I predict civilization will end in 3 years if he's elected.
And he doesn't even have to bring about the end of the world, (You know, with all of us being Dead, and all, while he blames everybody else in the 6 minutes we'll all have left), he will cause the World Economy so much Distress, it will take a Lifetime (or, maybe, I'm told, a Thousand of 'em) to recover. It will make George Bush's economic mess-up a mere blip in the history of the world. Sorta like the Plague. Way back when. "Blip!!"
And I see me in the not so distant future sitting around the dinner table, talking about "the Good Old Days" to my grandchildren, back when we had a "Constitution." (And, yes, I'll probably have to spell the word!) Oh, you tell me, you see a sense of ironic understatement in what I say? Well, aren't you perceptive?! And if you don't sense the irony, then I call you out here and now, you fucking dim-witted Trump people! You don't "Get" it! You simply "feel" it!!? Assholes! There's No thought involved in your choice.
"I HATE Hillary!" An outburst of Just raw emotion. And Understandable Frustration. And the death of our democracy. I get the "Hillary" thing. Really, I GET it! I Never liked her. Period. But we're faced with a dire choice this time. And, to me, there is no choice. She wouldn't ever be a viable candidate if she wasn't running against a monkey this year!
"Ignorance is an Asset" is simply not a valid political slogan! EVER!
The Beauty of our Founding Fathers, with all their discord, was their intellectual ability to explain why tyranny was bad, and their different reasons for dealing with the problems they faced. They, too, hated each other politically, but they found a common cause in the overthrow of tyranny. Today we face the imposition of an unknowledgeable, ignorant tyranny and No One can reason with the Rage that's bringing it about.We appear to have lost that voice in this day.
We're returning to the Populist Era of the Andrew Jackson presidency, and oddly, not based on economic differences, but class and race! Wow! But, this time, with the sinister threat of nuclear world extinction that didn't exist back then. "Bulls in China shops" are refreshing, to be sure, but, probably terminal for our world. And I'm so very sorry. Not for me. And certainly not for you. But for the kids. My kids. And theirs. My generation did not serve you kids well.
This post was never meant to be a reasoned argument against the electing of Donald Trump to President of the United States. There are MANY other posts out there which have done that, are doing that, and will continue to do that regardless of the election results. This is just me here. And I'm so sad for us all.
