Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
But I am 49 and I feel like this is the most important election I have ever voted in because one candidate has courted, validated, emboldened, and energized dark emotions in our country. Yes, yes, I know that not ALL Trump supporters are misogynistic, xenophobic racists. But a not insignificant portion are, and Trump has, at worst, actively encouraged and, at best, done absolutely nothing to discourage these sentiments and groups. You tend to argue that these issues are distractions because, on their face, these are not pure economic and foreign policy issues, and that is all that is really going to make a difference in the end. But for women, blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, etc., who want to live in a country where they are not persecuted and denigrated because of their gender, race, ethnicity, or religion, these arguments ring hollow. This is what motivates me today.
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