A growing number of Republicans say they’d vote for Hillary Clinton rather than give their vote to Donald Trump.
While I’m grateful that a number of you are as repulsed and disgusted at the thought of “President Trump” the rest of the world is, I have a question for you:
What did you expect?
For years the GOP has been openly racist, bigoted and sexist. NEWSFLASH: It’s no longer 1950. There’s this nifty thing called the internet which allows all of us to view that racism, sexism and bigotry WITH OUR OWN EYES.
One would have thought that all the Republican men who were making ignorant, moronic comments about rape in 2012 might have realized that at the very least they needed to keep their slut-shaming, willfully ignorant comments about sexual assault to themselves. But noooo, Republicans held classes to inform these knuckle-dragging ignoramuses to shut the f*ck up about rape if they want to win elections. Evidently all students in the “don’t say rape” classes failed because the victim blaming and the damaging stereotypes continue to this day.
Republicans have waged a war on common decency. Whether it’s about not wanting to bake wedding cakes for gay people, companies denying women the option of birth control on third-party insurance plans – based on the bogus religious “morality” argument — or defunding and lying about Planned Parenthood, conservatives like Erick Erickson have not only been engaging in this abhorrent behavior, they’ve been celebrating it. They’ve embraced inequality, be it based on gender, sexual preference, wages, voting rights, religion — take your pick.
Donald Trump is the direct result of your endless tirades about the non-existent War on Christmas and War on Boys, your unrelenting attacks on the LGBT community, your open hatred for women’s equality and immigrants, and your hatred for African-Americans and all people who are not white Christians. What did it get you? A white supremacist is your representative now.
While there are plenty of Trump supporters, they only represent a fraction of the GOP. Maybe you’re a conservative who isn’t (openly) racist, sexist or bigoted. It doesn’t really matter now. Your silence and inaction contributed to the worst case scenario. If you’re embarrassed, you deserve it. If you’re appalled, welcome to reality. You only have yourselves to blame; and, while my big toe would probably beat Trump in the general election, I’ll never assume he “can’t win” because he’s swept the primaries and crushed the rest of the GOP clowns vying for the most powerful position in the world.
It’s time for sane Republicans to finally wake up and realize you’ll never turn this country into a conservative utopia where everyone pretends women have no libidos and white (Christian) men are superior.
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