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02-01-2016, 09:21 AM
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For the first time in 3 decades
I am considering not voting. Its tearing me up since I have always felt it my civic duty. Just cannot vote for any of the candidates we have. They are all a joke...
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02-01-2016, 09:37 AM
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I know some folks would chastise you for that. I also will not vote if there is no one running that I believe in. I don't much go in for voting the lessor of two evils.
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02-01-2016, 09:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grumpy
I am considering not voting. Its tearing me up since I have always felt it my civic duty. Just cannot vote for any of the candidates we have. They are all a joke...
Grumpy
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IT means that Trump has done a great job...by his not so PC approach, he has blown up the establishment.
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02-01-2016, 09:51 AM
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IT means that Trump has done a great job...by his not so PC approach, he has blown up the establishment.
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This whole "anti-PC" thing the right tosses about amuses me. Because, sometimes what they complain about isn't a matter of "political correctness" at all, it's just common decency. Besides, they have plenty of "political correctness" of their own.
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02-01-2016, 09:55 AM
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This whole "anti-PC" thing the right tosses about amuses me. Because, sometimes what they complain about isn't a matter of "political correctness" at all, it's just common decency. Besides, they have plenty of "political correctness" of their own.
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I don't see much common decency in the GOP. Hate and intolerance is all they spew....
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02-01-2016, 10:17 AM
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I don't see much common decency in the GOP. Hate and intolerance is all they spew....
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That wasn't the point. They spew hate and intolerance to drown out what THEY consider "political correctness". It's not "political correctness" to say that racism exists, excessive greed and exploitation is a bad thing or that it's wrong to mock people who suffer from neuro-muscular disorders. It's just common decency.
These people have gotten so wrapped up in their A-hole Crusade they have lost sight of that.
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02-01-2016, 10:28 AM
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It's not "political correctness" to say that racism exists, excessive greed and exploitation is a bad thing or that it's wrong to mock people who suffer from neuro-muscular disorders.
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The Right would insist that pointing out racism is itself racist, that decrying the excesses of capitalists and oligarchs is class warfare and that objecting to the ridiculing of the disabled is pandering for sympathy and "special treatment".
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02-01-2016, 09:53 AM
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IT means that Trump has done a great job...by his not so PC approach, he has blown up the establishment.
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Its not just Trump. All of them suck big black donkey balls !
Maybe a decent Indy contender will come along. Would be wasting my vote but least id vote..
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02-01-2016, 09:47 AM
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I think we all know how THAT feels.
However, I WILL vote for what I believe is the lesser of two evils.
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02-01-2016, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumpy
I am considering not voting. Its tearing me up since I have always felt it my civic duty. Just cannot vote for any of the candidates we have. They are all a joke...
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Thank you for your candor, Dave.
The wingnuts have pushed the GOP so far to the extreme that it's center is on the border of what used to be considered the extreme. The term "conservative" is pushed so hard and overused to the point that many otherwise rational folk consider it a synonym for asshole, and will likely vote based on that perception. I myself now vote straight ticket because of unintentionally sending onesuch to Washington DC based on what was admittedly bad advice.
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