Look in the Mirror

It's incredible how badly the GOP brand has been damaged this election cycle.  The party's standards, unbreakable ideals from 30 years ago, principles handed down by the GOP God Reagan himself, are now ashes, burned to keep the party faithful warm as they embrace an ice cold candidate, Donald Trump, a candidate who's everything they've fought against for the last few decades.  Trump, by embracing racism, islamophobia, misogyny, and homophobia wrapped in a bogus, dirty 'family values' wrapper, and by insisting he'd be very anti-abortion and 'huge' for business, has become the candidate they blindly follow, as they eradicate the moral code they still foolishly think they're abiding by.

How bad is it getting?  One example:  this last summer, Republicans were going out of their way to discriminate against the transgender community, in some cases proposing multi million dollar solutions to the false problem of transgender people using the restrooms they gender identify with.  The party of small government and personal liberty was proposing universal state wide gender databases, an idea which would come with a massive expansion of governmental overreach and taxpayer cost.  They also suggested Crotch Cops, people stationed at restrooms across the country to actually serve as 'inspectors,' abusive goalkeepers invading individual's genitalia to determine if it was safe to let them go tinkle.  They did this all under the false narrative 'it's to prevent creeps from grabbing people's genitals.' 

Three months later, they're now not only supporting a candidate for President we have on tape boastfully bragging about grabbing a woman by her genitals, but the same exact people behind the bathroom bill nonsense are making ludicrous excuses for Trump's inexcusable behavior.  And this is only one example of hundreds I could make.

Let's face it, the Republican Party is no longer about winning with their candidates.  It's about defeating their perceived enemies, antagonist du jour's they've falsely hyper-inflated to video game levels of super-villainy.  They take a regular politician, turn him or her into Hitler infinite, and then insist the best way to deal with their self created problem is to nuke the country.  In their reality, Tump's the nukes they're cheering on, as they stand on the targets!

If you're a moderate Republican, and you're voting for Trump, I don't understand you.  There's nothing he's proposing which is remotely moderate.  Trump is extremism for extremism sake, so you voting for him officially negates any ability for you to claim you're a moderate ever again.

If you're a fiscally conservative Republican, and you're voting for Trump, I understand you even less.  The tax bills he's proposing would triple the national debt.  His insane ideas of building walls and throwing out all undocumented people would cost in the trillions of dollars, and will not work.  Trump's mere victory would send this country into an economic slide, with American companies likely leaving US soil to prevent from experiencing a total economic catastrophe, so you voting for him officially negates any ability for you to claim you're fiscally conservative ever again.

If you're a Reagan Republican, and you're voting for Trump, you're betraying everything Reagan ever stood for.  Only the most intentionally oblivious fool would not see the clear ties to Putin and Russia. Reagan would've NEVER allowed a foreign country to potentially influence the policy decisions of the US.  A recent Newsweek story (http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635) pointed out Trump has undeniably gotten fed political smear talking points from the Russian Government and Wikileaks.  Trump is a puppet of Putin, so you voting for him officially negates any ability for you to claim you're a Reagan Republican ever again.

If you're a Christian Conservative, and you're voting for Trump, you're betraying almost everything the Bible stands for.  I'm not the one who brought religion into this discussion, YOU DID, so don't get angry when I point out your massive level of hypocrisy.  You wrap yourself in one political point, abortion, a topic I addressed quite thoroughly in the September post titled 'Abortion.'  A reminder, many Democrats are personally against abortion and Democrats don't force people to have abortions, regardless of how much your fever dreams tell you they do.  And as you micro focus on abortion, or stopping gay people (something which is far more about your strange fascination with how gay people have sex), you ignore pretty much every other Christian teaching, from both the Old and New Testaments.  Trump doesn't care about the hungry, sick, homeless, needy, elderly, children, strangers from strange lands, or any other subgroup Jesus indisputably tells us to care for, so you voting for him officially negates any ability for you to claim you're standing for Christian values ever again. 

For God's sake Republicans, look in the mirror!  Turn off the Fox News.  Turn off the extremist right wing media.  Turn off your racist and derogatory social media feeds, and use YOUR brains for once.  Realize who exactly you're getting into bed with, and what it will cost us all if he wins.  You could come to grips with Hillary Clinton not being the demagogue you've turned her into, but a reminder; you don't have to vote for ANYONE.  This is not a "I have no option but to vote for Trump" scenario.  My rant isn't an attempt to trick you.  It's an attempt to save your souls.

If you vote for Trump, I'll never take you guys seriously again, even if Trump gets walloped on November 8th.  You'll have proven to the world your morals, beliefs values and standards are not real.  You'll have proven you're too stupid for us to listen too, ever again.