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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Hey, you enable it, you own it.
The fact is there are people who are fine with racism as long as it gets them prohibitions on abortion or lower taxes or exclusive zoning.
When you make a deal with the devil, he gets your soul.
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If you truly believe, as a serious conservative, that Hillary is unacceptable, and that Trump, while atrocious, will observe at least some conservative policies, you have to vote for Trump. If one has no choice but to do that because he is only given two options, I don't think he can credibly be called a racist for selecting that lesser of two evils. I agree you can criticize him for aiding racists inadvertently. But his aims were not to aid racists. His aims were simply to exercise the best choice he could given his conservative beliefs.
Under the framework you offer, everyone who votes for an R candidate or third party candidate is automatically a racist. It would confer on every voter an obligation to vote Democrat or be racist. One would be racist even for not voting, as his failure to do so deprives Democrats of a vote, imperiling their success and rendering possible the success of their racist GOP opponent.
I cast a protest vote in 2016. Hank says people like me cost Hillary the election. I did not vote in 2018 as I had a conflict. I find it hard to brand myself a racist for these acts. That descriptive cannot be thrown on such dubious grounds.
I do think, however, that you may rightly criticize my behavior. And you can assert I had a duty to pick from the two choices and should have picked Hillary. That's totally fair. You can even say, "You broke it, you bought it," and assert that I've no right to bitch about Trump because my failure to vote for Hillary perhaps helped to elect him. But I don't think anyone can make the argument that any time anyone votes for a GOP candidate, or does not vote for the Democrat, they are racist, which by natural logical extension your framework seems to do.
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