So, What’s Your Argument For Supporting a Convicted Felon for President?
Don’t try and tell me that there are “good” conservatives, because I don’t see evidence of any
Conservatives have nominated a sex offender, traitor, con artist, convicted felon to occupy the highest office in the land.
Let’s just state the facts here.
I have two daughters. Because of conservatives, my daughters have been stripped of their right to bodily autonomy. Every day I have to read more articles about how conservatives want to restrict access to birth control. There is also talk about how the government should have the right to monitor menstrual cycles.
For real. This is the world we live in. I’ve already had to sit down with my daughters and explain to them that if anyone ever asks them when their last period was, that they should REFUSE TO ANSWER.
I don’t care if the person asking is a teacher, I don’t care if it’s the police, I don’t care if it’s a US Senator, I don’t care if it’s God herself.
But we no longer have a right to privacy in the USA and that’s because conservatives are too ignorant to protect our unenumerated rights.
They’re all too happy to protect the rights of rapists however. They say things like “it doesn’t matter how the baby was conceived, the baby is a gift from God. Life is precious!”
Except, if somebody rapes my child and she has an ectopic pregnancy that threatens her life, conservatives have decided my daughter has to die. They’ve decided she has to die rather than receive life saving healthcare even with a non-viable pregnancy. Conservatives claim to stand for life, and they take action that leaves NO SURVIVORS!
That’s just the beginning, but I want to shine a light on all those odious Conservatives who slither out from beneath their rocks to whine about how “unfair” it is that “all conservatives” are “lumped together.”
“Don’t smear people... that’s rude! We’re not ALL like that.”
And I say, “You mean the way conservatives smear people by saying all human beings are sinners? That’s what we shouldn’t do?”
Then they pivot again (there are more pivots than in a basketball game) and insist that you ARE a sinner, thus violating your Constitutional right to religious freedom.
What becomes clear is that THESE ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE!
Good people don’t strip women of their right to reproductive healthcare. Good people don’t support a sex offender. Good people don’t support a traitor, con artist, convicted felon to wield power over all the innocent, hard-working, and regularly exploited people in our society.
Conservatives, it’s not ABOUT YOU! It’s about doing THE RIGHT THING! If you’re wasting your strength whining about how you shouldn’t be “lumped in” with the bad ones, then you’re enabling the problem.
I get people who write me and say, “Well, ‘good’ conservatives don’t support that guy.”
Oh, is that the case? Then why don’t I see any evidence of your activism? All I see is conservatives complaining about how unfairly they’re being treated.
Whine... whine... whine. They have 24/7 news stations dedicated to crying and whining and lying and hate speech.
They don’t have any time for actual activism. They don’t have any time to help people who are abused and exploited. But they have all the time in the world to complain about how “unfair” it is that they should be the target of criticism for their beliefs and behavior.
It’s like they all want a participation trophy for the good works they refuse to perform.
It’s important to remember that Trump is not the disease, he’s a symptom. Trump is not an aberration of conservatism. He is the end result. Those of us who have been paying attention have been warning about how conservative ideology is a pathway to fascism for decades.
Conservative ideology can only lead to hatred, prejudice, bigotry, intolerance, authoritarianism and the loss of human rights.
These. Are. Bad. People.
But go on, give me your argument. Tell me why you can vote for a convicted felon and sex offender and you’re still a decent human being. Say the words, “I’m going to vote for a sex offender who has already managed to violate every woman in our country through his contribution to stripping them of their human rights because...”
Let’s hear it. Put it in the comments below so I can delete your comment and block you.
Conservatives! There is no defense for your behavior! Our society should not sit here and pretend that your demands are acceptable. Supporting an odious bully is repugnant. You should be ashamed of yourselves! There’s no wriggling out of accountability here.
If you are on the side of the sex offender convicted felon, you’re not a good person.
You’re not.
Own it.
Conservatives are not entitled to their absurd belief that it’s somehow “inappropriate” to call them out for all the atrocities they’ve committed.
Why do we persist in the absurd social norm that we shouldn’t discuss controversial topics in public? It seems to me all that does is offer horrible people the camouflage they need to continue abusing and exploiting people.
If your church has covered up the abuses of sex offenders, that should be the FIRST topic of conversation every time you meet somebody who attends that church. If your church prohibits women from occupying positions of power, that church should be brought up on discrimination charges.
The people who point this out shouldn’t be shunned.
Holding to a code of silence and denial about these crimes makes our society COMPLICIT!
If you’re one of those people who spends all your energy engaged in useless arguments as to why it somehow hurts you when a group is called out for its transgressions against the innocent, then you’re part of the problem.
Instead of defending yourself, you should dedicate your energy to helping your fellow human beings like ACTUALLY DECENT PEOPLE!
No, you don’t get to sit there and say “don’t lump me in.” That’s just a deceitful attempt to halt progress.
By the way, “halting progress” is the most concise summary of the conservative ideology.
Instead say, “Yes, that is a problem. Yes, that needs to be fixed. Yes, let’s work together to fix it.”
This #notallmen and #notallconservatives bullshit has got to stop. It’s a waste of energy that could be spent productively to the benefit of all human kind.
If the criticisms don’t apply to you, fine! But don’t take that as a justification to try and suggest the criticisms aren’t valid, or the problem doesn’t exist. Guess what, when you do that, YOU PROVE HOW THE CRITICISMS APPLY TO YOU!
Conservatives are committed to a philosophy of hate, pain, and oppression. There is not one redeeming virtue. They do nothing for us. We shouldn’t sit here and pretend that they do.
If they want to defend themselves, they must do so THROUGH AN EXAMPLE OF THEIR COMMITMENT TO DECENCY.
SHOW US YOUR GOOD WORKS!
But they don’t have any, so they resort to saying, “Well, don’t lump all of us together. We’re not all like that!”
You’re not huh?
Then how did conservatives manage to end up with a sex offender, traitor, convicted felon as their presidential nominee? A vote for Trump is an expression of support for unprovoked aggression against the innocent. It’s a vile and unthinkable act. Conservatives don’t deserve to be protected from the abuses they want to inflict upon the rest of us.
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Well written. The maga morons won’t agree but fuck them, fuck trump, fuck the gop and fuck anyone who supports his crime riddled past and future. He’s a fucking rapist, treasonous loser who loses everything he goes near. Except for hate, he attracts that in spades.
My. Oh. My. You are on 🔥. Magnificent article, rightfully angry, disgusted with the hypocrisy, and ready to gag and vomit on the phony victimization.
I’m not expecting god to do anything about these evil beings, if god existed Trump and his miscreant minions would already be roasting in a space adjacent to the earths molten core.
However, I have a book of Hindu mythology pictures, and I enjoy imagining, a couple of hundred of those flying multi-species monsters crashing into Mar-a-Lago the next time he holds his MAGA-NAZI barbecue on his little island.
You expressed outrage, in my behalf, and surely shared by millions more. Thank you Walter. Just so you know I live in Florida. The latest assassin was arrested just done the road from where I live.
I’ve starting trying to just imagine wild and ludicrous scenarios to maim or injure this cabal of fascist brain rot carriers.
The Hindu mega species is my latest version planet protectors. 😎