2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dan Savage Has Had Enough Of ‘Pasty White’ Jill Stein Supporters [View all]Haveadream
(1,630 posts)He is a homegrown monster, and, whether we like it or not, he is our monster. People of good conscience will take responsibility for preventing him and his cohorts anywhere near the White House and the Supreme Court.
If Trump wins, anyone who did not vote for Hillary is personally responsible for their part in getting him elected and the consequences of that. They are responsible when people lose their healthcare, when costs for insurance and prescription drugs go up, when ever more minorities are imprisoned, when an emboldened, better armed police force is unaccountable for their actions, when torture is green lighted, even for the families of the accused, when women are denied or criminalized for seeking healthcare and reproductive rights, when conservatives control the Supreme Court for the next 30 years, when Citizens United remains the path to elections, when more protective voting rights laws are eliminated, when carbon emissions from a heavily promoted gas and coal industry accelerate causing irrevocable climate change, when college costs more, not less and student debt gets worse, when a stagnant minimum wage keeps more people in poverty, when the 1% gets even more tax breaks, when tent cities and mass deportations become routine, when hate crimes increase, when guns and mass shootings proliferate, when social security is privatized and our response to every foreign policy conflict is to go rogue from NATO allies and simply carpet bomb our enemies.
WTG, Greens.