It has been a long time since I have been on a run and didn’t think about this election. Frankly, I don’t think I have ever been engaged this much in an election. It’s not because that it is so exciting, it is because of what is at stake for America. America is at a crossroads and one of the roads leads us down a dangerous path. Like a runner on the trails, be smart about the trails you take and to where the path leads. You also cannot run these treacherous trails blindly. Generally, this blog is about running but my two monikers are Runners Thoughts and In The Moment Running. My Runners Thoughts are not always about running so going forward I will share the thoughts I have while running whether they are running related or not.
Before I get into the topic of the election, I should provide a little information about me. I am registered as an unaffiliated voter, 56-year-old white male, Christian, and college-educated with a graduate degree in computer science so I am highly analytical. I live in Durham, NC. Being registered non-affiliated or independent, normally I would look at candidates for all offices with more objectivity because I don’t believe every issue is black and white, left or right. Normally, I might vote republican for one office, democrat for another. I would say I am more of a moderate on issues seeing both right wing conservatives and left wing liberals dangerous to our society. In this election, I will NOT vote for Trump and will not support anyone who has endorsed or supports him nor will I respect anyone who does. I respect their right to have their own opinions (although Trump wouldn’t respect those that do if they differ from his) and respect that our free republic allows us to openly discuss our opinions and vote for who we want. This is the case against Trump put into the perspective of our own lives. In essence, are we OK with what he represents? I would argue that we are not but many of Americans are not putting it into perspective.
Here are the questions I would like everyone to answer and then note how Trump responded either on documented video or audio:
1) If my child, brother, sister was physically or mentally challenged, would I allow another adult to make fun of them in gesture and spoken words? Would this be OK with me? Are there any circumstances where this would be OK? Trump demonstrates this is OK.
2) If my child was bullied in school, made fun of for the way they looked, the way they talked, or the way they ate, etc. Would you let this pass and laugh with the bully? Would this be OK with you? Trump shows that bullying is OK.
3) As a veteran or the family of a veteran where your serviceman comes back from deployment with PTSD, seeing and experiencing some of the most horrible visions of war. Would you consider him/her weak, that he/she cannot take it? Trump says yes, they are weak people.
4) If your serviceman was tortured, endured and persevered after being captured by the enemy, would you consider him/her a hero? Trump would not, he only likes those who aren’t captured.
5) If your serviceman was killed in action, no matter what your ethnicity or religious believes, a person who fought for the freedom of this country, would you like people to make fun of you? Trump did this.
6) If your daughter goes on a date and the boy/man looks at her and says, “eh, do you know what you look like? you’re not my first choice.” Would that be OK with you? If the boy/man grabs her, hugs and kisses her without permission, would this be OK for your daughter to be treated like that? It is OK for Trump. Then, if it is the boy’s word against your daughter’s word, who do you go with? Trump says the women are all liars and he can do all he wants with them!
7) If someone says, “look at MY African American” over there. Considering slave ownership, would this be an OK phrase by anyone, let alone a presidential candidate? Trump said it. If your daughter or son or grandchild marries an African-American, would this be OK to say to them? It appears Trump’s OK saying it to them.
8) Are all Mexicans rapists and drug dealers? Trump thinks so.
9) Would you like to live in Russia under Putin and communist rule? Trump thinks Putin’s leadership is stronger than our leadership and likes the way he rules his country.
10) Do you enjoy violence, hatred, and degrading people? Trump says he loves physical and verbal fights and he has proven he degrades people. He has incited violence against a competing candidate. One of his supporters brought a Hillary doll to a rally with a noose around its neck. Another NC republican, supporting Trump says she should have a bullseye on her picture on the Rifleman magazine.
11) Do you believe that if your sports team doesn’t win, or you don’t win the lottery, or you don’t win playing a simple game of cards that they are rigged? Anytime you don’t win, it is rigged? That is Trump, if he is not winning it is rigged, if he is winning, then it is legitimate. Conversely, he thinks accusations against Bill Clinton are all true, yet none against him are. If the election is rigged as Trump says it is, why vote then? Stay home on election day. Of course, he said to vote on November 28th.
12) Would you love your email or your internet browsing history hacked by the Russians? Trump advocates for Russia to be hacking our email.
13) Would you like to see a nuclear war, a bomb that falls onto your family, or worse, near enough your family where they suffer from radiation poisoning for years? Trump wants to escalate nuclear war and on the word of the President, nukes must be fired within 4 minutes. Do you want Trump to be 4 minutes away from annihilation of our country or another?
14) Do you love to be insulted for anything and everything? Is bullying OK with you? Here are the 282 people, things, places Trump has insulted during his campaign.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html?_r=0 He has NO policies; he ONLY has insults. He will insult you, your family, your beliefs at the drop of a hat, even before it hits the floor.
15) Do you hold Christian beliefs? Look back through this list, do one of these insults fall in line with your Christian beliefs? I doubt it, so why would any Christian vote for Donald Trump? It is hypocritical at best and dangerous at worst. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for the devil, saying that the devil is who you support, not a loving Jesus or all people, not a loving Jesus who helps the poor, not a loving Jesus who forgives sins. I am sure if you were to ask Trump if he is a sinner, the answer would be “no” which all Christians know that we are all sinners. He is the antichrist rising.
16) Do you remember any of Trump’s policies or the phrase “grab ‘em by the pussy’? I am sure it is the pussy comment that you remember because he has not spoken about policy except through rhetoric. He knows nothing about policy and his surrogates little more.
17) Why does Putin want Trump to win? It is because Putin knows that Trump is a dumb-ass and knows nothing about running a country, that he would do stupid things which would give Putin and other countries the opportunity to seize on America, that the people he surrounds himself with also cannot govern and are extremist to divide America as opposed to unite America. We have all heard united we stand, divided we fall. With Trump it is divided we fall!
18) Do you consider yourself racist, a bigot, sexist, one that promotes violence and hatred and thinks America is a horrible place? If so, you identify with Trump. Look in the mirror and say, I am a racist, bullying bigot and despise everyone but myself until it is convenient in my own interest to like someone else.
19) Do you think a rich billionaire with a silver spoon in his mouth cares anything about you, knows yours struggles, and seriously wants to help you and your family? Trump is about Trump and only about Trump and this election is about his ego and narcissism. He cares nothing about you or this country, only about Trump. Do you know his kid has an entire floor to himself at Trump Tower? Can he possibly understand a child living on the street, homeless?
20) Do you think Trump is not a politician? You are voting for him because he is anti-establishment? Trump is the worst kind of establishment and the worst kind of politician. He believes that his entitled ways of life allows him to do anything he wants because he is famous and rich. He said it on the audio, that he can grab ‘em by the pussy, kiss them whenever he wants, have them whenever he wants. He said he can walk down 5th Ave and shoot someone and his followers wouldn’t care. Would you care? Do you care?
I could go on and on because there is so much fire under the feet of this devil who will lead us into hell. I am up at 3:30 AM finishing this because of the disgust I feel for this person and the need to just get it out. But my real fear is the support he has that shows the true ugliness of America. True colors come out in intense times and win or lose, we have seen the true colors of America and they “ain’t” pretty.
He really (in his reality show self) is a deplorable person (won’t even call him a man) without a care for humanity and decency of any kind. If elected, it will be the worst thing for America in my lifetime and will show the ugliness of our country. He is blind to what a decent human being is, knows nothing of the issues of America, has no policy statements of substance, and will turn on you (individually or the American people) instantly when it benefits him. He is leading the blind, the people who can’t see through all of this, who defend his ways and actions with their own rhetoric and lies. He is by far and away the worst candidate ever for the presidency but scarier than that is that he has nearly half of voting Americans following him.
Also, note that this is not a pro-Hilary post. Although I voted for her (as well as every democrat on the ticket since I lost all respect for republicans supporting Trump) she is not without her issues and baggage. However, her issues and baggage are not in the same universe as Trump’s. And frankly, I am sick of hearing about emails because that is all the fight against her has been about. Hell, our government and businesses get hacked on a regular basis. Edward Snowden gave all our secrets to the Russians anyway. Do you really think classified emails are truly secret? Yes, it is sad that these two candidates are what we have as viable Presidents of this GREAT country but truly I tell you, there is only one of these two that has the temperament, decency, humanity, knowledge, leadership, empathy, sincerity to be President and in NO WAY is it Trump!! I'm with Her!
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