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As a Christian, and as an American, I cannot vote for either Trump or Clinton.
Trump is erratic and a bully.
- He has a terrible, public record of encouraging and practicing insult and abuse toward a wide range of minorities, from women to Jews, from “Mexicans” to non-right-wing Christians, including the mega-“minority” of people who don’t have as much money as he does.
- He has bad history, morally and financially.
- They say that Trump “says what he thinks” – but it seems he often says it before he thinks, and doesn’t care.
- That is attractive to some people, but would be a very scary trait to have in the most powerful government position in the world.
- His personality and his campaign have encouraged bullying talk and behavior – all across the country it seems.
I fear what his election would set loose in certain of his followers.
Clinton is a bully, and has a public record of extreme irresponsibility
- She has endangered us all by her style in managing her high-level responsibilities, as publicly attested to recently – for one example – by the director of the FBI. [Note added Nov 1: He said this weeks ago, long before the recent letter regarding continued investigation.]
- She has deeply enmeshed financial entanglements with some of the most wealthy and dangerous people around the world.
- She seems to like war, and even more, the threat of war.
Clinton may be less dangerous right away in my neighborhood than Trump – maybe – but her threat is great at higher levels, both in terms of international bluster and clout, and in terms of control and intimidation of powerful people here at home – including the media, and the national security apparatus.
They are both too unpredictable and too extremely dangerous
for me to lend to either the approval of my vote. The campaign is very educational – it shows clearly that our election / party system has become pretty much useless as an exercise in democracy. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may well represent American politics at its current very low place, but they do not represent the values of what Lincoln called “the better angels” of the American tradition.
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Wouldn’t you vote 3rd party to get more financing for 3rd party candidates? It seems to me that Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have some good ideas.
Yes. I changed my registration to Green Party this summer, and will vote for Jill tomorrow ?
Yes, we would and we will
For one of the first times over the years, we are in exact agreement. Neither candidate is fit for office, and I agree that Trump may be the less competent, for which very reason Clinton may end up being the more dangerous.
We are actually in the exactly equal but opposite situations here. Respectfully, I admire your honest assessment of Clinton and your courage not to vote for her out of fear of Trump. Who I will not be voting for, for all the reasons mentioned, and the fact that his reflexive authoritarian instincts are incompatible with true conservatism. A man accustomed to getting his way by threat and bluster and force, without principle or respect, will never respect the laws and limitations bounding his office. And a woman who has devoted her career to amassing power, influence, and money will be ruled by the same greed, not the law.
I don’t want to go to war …
Seriously? That’s very irresponsible.