Vote Corruption Over Fascism

This blog is my final plea to sway anyone reading this to vote corruption over fascism tomorrow on election day. I'm not going to insult Trump voters and call them morons or rednecks. I'm not going to say you are stupid for not supporting Hillary Clinton. As I've stated previously I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton. I voted for Obama over her in 2008 democratic primaries and was a passionate supporter of Bernie Sanders over her this time. I don't expect anyone to like her. In fact on a very primal, visceral level I like watching and listening to Trump speak over Clinton, but this is not reality TV, this is reality and I don't pick my doctor or my dentist because he's good at making me laugh or entertaining me. We should not be aligning who we want to lead this country to the lazy part of our brain.

We should want a leader that is knowledgeable and competent. We should want a President that is rational and experienced. This was one of the main reasons I thought Bernie was the far superior candidate to Hillary in the general because with Bernie you get not only honesty and integrity but experience and he's anti-establishment (in the healthy way!) But we are forced between these two less than ideal choices. There is no going back. Bernie or Kasich will never be elected president in 2016. We have to accept the reality of this situation.

And with this horror of a reality we land about where most people I know feel about this election. They say, "these two candidates are equally horrible" or "picking the lesser of two evils is still picking evil" or "I refuse to vote for someone I do not want to be my President". I understand the sentiment to all of these but there is no way one of these two will not be our President. It will never be Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, or "Vernon Supreme"! So if you vote 3rd party or "none of the above", as they call it a "protest vote" you are part of the problem.

I don't want to try to convince you Hillary Clinton has earned your vote. I would say she has done literally nothing to earn mine. This election seems to be voting for a candidate that will stop the other candidate. It's an election of voting against someone not for someone. That is just the reality of the situation, and this gross narrative could all have been avoided with Bernie. Not a whole lot of people loathe Bernie they way they do Hillary. So what we have to do is convince you voting against Trump is much more sane than voting against Hillary.

I have several friends that see Hillary as Satan. Some have even compared her to Hitler. She's a murderer, a traitor, an evil secret reptilian Jew alien.. you name it. There are legit concerns about Hillary and her corruption. I find most of the outrage from Republicans to be overblown but there is some cause for alarm. You can say she paid off the FBI to get out of indictment. You can say she paid off the those that cleared her of wrong doing in Benghazi and not produce evidence but you have to understand that your bias is screaming through here. You need to reel it back and look at the facts we have.

With Trump we have a clear case of "strongman" authoritarian. He said in his GOP nomination acceptance speech that "he ALONE can fix this country". I often wonder how many times people just laugh their way through Trump's silly speeches and forget to catch red flags. He has praised 3rd world dictators like Kim Jong Il. He has made no apologies for really admiring ex-KJB and Russian leader  Vladimir Putin. He has quoted Mussolini in tweets. He has mentioned opening up the libel laws to sue journalists for lying about him. He talks of shutting down satirical television shows that make fun of him like SNL. He has on several occasions called for outright war crimes, breaking international law like torturing more than just waterboarding (even if it doesn't work) and bombing the family members (innocent women and children) of terrorist organizations to teach them a lesson.

 Trump is a thug. Trump is a pathological liar (there is data showing he lies 70+% of the time. Let that sink in! Trump is a true narcissist. He is a fascist demagogue.  He very talented con man and master troll. If will not release his taxes, breaking tradition by all presidential candidates in modern American history. Likely reasons he will not: He isn't as rich as he claims (a true psychopath that cannot be undone) or he has ties to Russia. Trump incites violence at his rallies.. telling his supporters that you should punch protestors in the face, take them out on a stretcher and he'll pay for the legal fees. He is a passionate opponent of free speech and if you are a Tea Party conservative constitutionalist American patriot and don't see a problem here you need serious mental help. He is a hollow human that has no idea what it means to self reflect. A quote from the movie American Psycho best sums up Trump,

There is an idea of Patrick Bateman (aka: Donald Trump); some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply and not there. - Patrick Batemen

I want you to close your eyes and imagine voting for someone with this psychological profile and laying your head down at night with a clean conscience. I know many of you hate Hillary with the passion of a thousand suns but giving this mad man the keys to the nuclear codes is suicidal. Giving this man the ability to "bring back coal" and shut down alternative energy in this country would destroy the progress we've already made towards mitigating climate change and ramp up the effects of climate change. If the U.S. completely embraces the environmental policies by a climate change denier like Donald Trump the rest of the world could follow suit. If America doesn't care why should we? Coal is much much cheaper and easier to process energy from.

We are looking a world wide disaster possibly Tuesday on election day. You can either be on the right side of this or the wrong side of this. I know many of you cannot vote for Hillary. I get it (sort of) but just at the very least be a person of integrity, patriotism, rationality, grace, and class to NOT vote for Donald Trump. If Trump gets into the White House it will likely spell the end to our republic. A fascist authoritarian was the exact type of figure head our founding fathers warned us about. He will shatter this country and those of us that are not part of the fascist cult will be on the radar.

You have to understand too fascism isn't just some scary authoritarian ego-manic as a leader of a country. It's a cult. It's anti-intellectual and deeply hyper-nationalistic. The in-group/out-group is on hyper-drive among the cult. Fascism is grass roots and anti-establishment (in a bad way!) The cult does the dirty work and just like in all neofascist situations the dear leader can say oh I never gave the direct orders to lynch this journalist or kill this Muslim American... BUT it's been done. The cult takes on a life of its own and those that oppose the cult are the enemies. Do you oppose the cult? If Trump is elected this cult gets legitimized. The red hats are coming, but you can stop this. Please I beg you to use the rational part of your brain here, be pragmatic... vote against Fascist Don.

Vote corruption ONLY to stop fascism.






The two best links on Fascism and the dangers of it rising here with electing Trump:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html