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If I may get political for a few moments.
9 years ago
General
Jarrell here.
If there are any disgruntled Bernie supporters because of his recent endorsement for Hillary, and you're planning on a protest vote for Trump, I thought you might like to see the highlights of the new Republican platform:
GOP Passes 'Most Anti-LGBT Platform' in History, Log Cabin Republicans Shocked
Led by some of the nation's most anti-gay politicians and even the head of an anti-gay hate group, Republicans late Tuesday voted on and passed the final draft of the GOP 2016 platform. The Log Cabin Republicans issued a fundraising email immediately, shocked, apparently, telling supporters, “moments ago, the Republican Party passed the most anti-LGBT Platform in the Party’s 162-year history.”
“Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of “pray the gay away” — it’s all in there,” the email reads, as the Miami Herald's Steve Rothaus reports.
“This isn’t my GOP, and I know it’s not yours either,” wrote Log Cabin President Gregory T. Angelo. “Heck, it’s not even Donald Trump’s!,” he claims, although that's debatable.
“When given a chance to follow the lead of our presumptive presidential nominee and reach out to the LGBT community in the wake of the awful terrorist massacre in Orlando on the gay nightclub Pulse, the Platform Committee said NO.”
As NCRM has been reporting all week, along with passing an amendment calling for an unconstitutional "religious freedom" bill, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) to become law, the GOP platform committee passed a plank that effectively says children raised in a "traditional" family are better off than children raised by same-sex parents or single parents.
Republicans voted for amendments that call for to the Bible being taught in schools and voted for transgender people to use the restroom of the gender they were assigned at birth. They also voted to keep a call for a ban on same-sex marriage in their 2016 national platform, voted to support anti-LGBT conversion therapy, and voted to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, only.
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So if you're voting for Trump in particular, for whatever reason, and Republicans for House and Senate seats, I don't want to know about it. That's your business. But you need to think long and hard about any type of protest vote for Trump as some type of retaliation for your candidate of choice not being the nominee. Protest votes for Trump is what has resulted in him being the last clown driving the car that started with some 16 or 17 GOP candidates. The time for protest votes are over--they've produced what we now have.
If you're a Bernie supporter, hey I'm one too. I feel your pain. To many of us, Hillary represents many of the things Bernie's campaign has been bringing to light of what's wrong about our current systems in place which keep big money and corporations in charge. But also keep in mind, when Bernie and Hillary were in Congress, they voted the same on bills over 90% of the time. Their stances are not that different though they come from different worlds as far as their methods for producing the intended results.
You've trusted Bernie all along, so why stop now? He knows what he's doing. He's thought over the implications and the very real aspect of Trump becoming president. He knows we can't let that happen. Bernie's campaign wasn't all for nothing. He woke up liberal America to what was going on. He moved Hillary to the left on many issues. His input to the Dem platform produced the most liberal platform in decades, possibly ever. Bernie-ites are running for Senate and House seats. The fight continues, but there's a time to be pragmatic about it, and like it or not, that's the road Bernie's taken.
But Number One, we cannot CANNOT let Trump win. I'll not waste my or your time here listing the myriad of reasons why. Number two, Jill of the Green party unfortunately cannot win. That's just not going to happen. This is my opinion, and you might not agree, but this is the way I see it: If you want to write in Bernie if he's not on the ballot, write him in. If you're in a red state, vote for Jill or Hill. If you're in a blue state, vote for Hill. Those of you like me old enough to remember what happened between Bush vs. Gore, with the Nader spoiler, I don't need to explain that further.
Me personally, since I'm in red W.Va, since it's going for Trump, I'll likely vote for Jill to help give the greens a good showing, and maybe by next time we'll have three parties in play.
If there are any disgruntled Bernie supporters because of his recent endorsement for Hillary, and you're planning on a protest vote for Trump, I thought you might like to see the highlights of the new Republican platform:
GOP Passes 'Most Anti-LGBT Platform' in History, Log Cabin Republicans Shocked
Led by some of the nation's most anti-gay politicians and even the head of an anti-gay hate group, Republicans late Tuesday voted on and passed the final draft of the GOP 2016 platform. The Log Cabin Republicans issued a fundraising email immediately, shocked, apparently, telling supporters, “moments ago, the Republican Party passed the most anti-LGBT Platform in the Party’s 162-year history.”
“Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of “pray the gay away” — it’s all in there,” the email reads, as the Miami Herald's Steve Rothaus reports.
“This isn’t my GOP, and I know it’s not yours either,” wrote Log Cabin President Gregory T. Angelo. “Heck, it’s not even Donald Trump’s!,” he claims, although that's debatable.
“When given a chance to follow the lead of our presumptive presidential nominee and reach out to the LGBT community in the wake of the awful terrorist massacre in Orlando on the gay nightclub Pulse, the Platform Committee said NO.”
As NCRM has been reporting all week, along with passing an amendment calling for an unconstitutional "religious freedom" bill, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) to become law, the GOP platform committee passed a plank that effectively says children raised in a "traditional" family are better off than children raised by same-sex parents or single parents.
Republicans voted for amendments that call for to the Bible being taught in schools and voted for transgender people to use the restroom of the gender they were assigned at birth. They also voted to keep a call for a ban on same-sex marriage in their 2016 national platform, voted to support anti-LGBT conversion therapy, and voted to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, only.
~ ~ ~
So if you're voting for Trump in particular, for whatever reason, and Republicans for House and Senate seats, I don't want to know about it. That's your business. But you need to think long and hard about any type of protest vote for Trump as some type of retaliation for your candidate of choice not being the nominee. Protest votes for Trump is what has resulted in him being the last clown driving the car that started with some 16 or 17 GOP candidates. The time for protest votes are over--they've produced what we now have.
If you're a Bernie supporter, hey I'm one too. I feel your pain. To many of us, Hillary represents many of the things Bernie's campaign has been bringing to light of what's wrong about our current systems in place which keep big money and corporations in charge. But also keep in mind, when Bernie and Hillary were in Congress, they voted the same on bills over 90% of the time. Their stances are not that different though they come from different worlds as far as their methods for producing the intended results.
You've trusted Bernie all along, so why stop now? He knows what he's doing. He's thought over the implications and the very real aspect of Trump becoming president. He knows we can't let that happen. Bernie's campaign wasn't all for nothing. He woke up liberal America to what was going on. He moved Hillary to the left on many issues. His input to the Dem platform produced the most liberal platform in decades, possibly ever. Bernie-ites are running for Senate and House seats. The fight continues, but there's a time to be pragmatic about it, and like it or not, that's the road Bernie's taken.
But Number One, we cannot CANNOT let Trump win. I'll not waste my or your time here listing the myriad of reasons why. Number two, Jill of the Green party unfortunately cannot win. That's just not going to happen. This is my opinion, and you might not agree, but this is the way I see it: If you want to write in Bernie if he's not on the ballot, write him in. If you're in a red state, vote for Jill or Hill. If you're in a blue state, vote for Hill. Those of you like me old enough to remember what happened between Bush vs. Gore, with the Nader spoiler, I don't need to explain that further.
Me personally, since I'm in red W.Va, since it's going for Trump, I'll likely vote for Jill to help give the greens a good showing, and maybe by next time we'll have three parties in play.
Tho if not him I would gladly vote for Hillary.