RETHINKING TRUMP
I'm rethinking Trump. Especially thanks to Frank Episale and a bit too toTony Autoharp Arena. Though I could never vote for someone as crass and patently corporate prostitute as Hillary Clinton... I'm no longer convinced that my "message vote" for Trump would be correctly interpreted.
I'm still hoping Trump will destroy the Republicans, but I think he has to do it AS a Republican, in the primaries. I'll most likely go back to my original plan and vote Jew (Jill Stein or Sid Yiddish) on election day. Voting GREEN tells the DEMOCRATS that some of us won't stand for Republican-in-Democratic-clothes nominations. That message is much clearer with a Green vote than with a Trump vote.
Why
I'll Likely Be Voting for Donald Trump
- I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter... a socialist. Bernie is the best thing that has happened to American politics since Eugene McCarthy... (probably before you were born). I support Sanders because I agree with him on just about every issue. I support him because he speaks for an America that hasn't been heard. Because he isn't and can't be bought by the superPacs, by the banks, by Wall Street, by the Pharmaceutical Industry, by the corporations government is supposed to regulate. I support Sanders because his vision can blast the corporatocracy to smithereens.
- If Sanders is not nominated. I will vote for Donald Trump.
I
don't (semi-) support Trump for his racism. I support him because,
like Sanders, he gets no money from superPacs. I support him because,
like Sanders, he's outside the neo-Conservative/Liberal spectrum that
has been running the US since Reagan. I support him because he, like
Sanders, wants to change the slave-wage jobs shipped to China to
Union Wage jobs in America.
Trump
is defying the Republican propaganda about globalism, and the evils
of Russia. He is fighting Wall Street and the Big Banks... and by so
doing, he is taking the average working-class American away from
traditional Republican gibberish about “small government” and the
joys of International Corporatism. Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric
catches those who've been tricked into traditional Republicanism and
teaches them a bit about how the world really works.
The
Republicans are teetering on the edge. Time
Magazine (as reported in November Issue of THE PROGRESSIVE) reports
that "less than 32 percent of the country has a favorable view
of the Republican Party, including just 68 percent of people who call
themselves Republicans.”
Poor
white Americans vote against their own interests because of
Republican anti-immigration, anti-Islam rhetoric. Trump is using the
same rhetoric... in an even more extreme version... to turn those
same white voters back to their real interests. There is a reason
Karl Rove is so strongly anti-Trump and it isn't the racism.
Republicans
are scared that. Trump has already turned off FOX News in the homes
of thousands of working Americans. Traditional Republican rightwing
magazine, The National Review thinks a Trump
candidacy-- let alone a Trump presidency-- will destroy the
Republican Party. If Sanders doesn't win, I'm voting for Trump
because I think in this rare case, The National Review is
right.
--Mykel
Board
