My Children Won’t Let Me Vote for Donald Trump

[babylonsister]

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My Children Won’t Let Me Vote for Donald Trump
September 17, 2016 / John Pavlovitz

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You can’t really tell your kids you’re against bullying, and vote for a world-class bully for President.

You can’t claim that racial, religious, and gender equality are important to you, while supporting someone so fully committed to division and exclusion and discrimination.

You can’t tell your children that your Christian faith matters to you, while advocating for a man whose entire religious engagement has been conceived as a crass, thinly veiled campaign tool; one that mocks people with genuine spiritual convictions.

You can’t tell your daughters that they’re equal to men and worthy of respect, and simultaneously cast your vote for an Olympic level misogynist who regularly offers the crudest evaluations of women’s physical appearances, emotional stability, and intellectual capacities.

You can’t tell your sons that they ought to fully value women, while giving them a national role model whose caveman-esque comments about his numerous wives, his co-workers, women in general, and even his own daughter— dehumanize them at every turn.

You can’t say to your kids that decency and compassion are things you value, while lifting up someone to the highest office in out country who is so fully devoid of them.

If you’re a parent who supports Trump, I’m not questioning your politics. I’m questioning what you’re telling your kids life is really about, and how you’re demonstrating consistency and integrity to them.

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[babylonsister]

2. Gawd, are you ill-informed and on the wrong forum. See ya! nt

[AgadorSparticus]

3. K&R!!

[Wounded Bear]

4. Great perspective....nt

[KewlKat]

5. excellent! Hard to argue with his reasoning. K&R

I’d never support Donald Trump for a nearly endless list of reasons, but perhaps most importantly because I wouldn’t be able to look my children in the eye and tell them that they can disregard everything we’ve ever sewn into their lives; that none of it mattered, that it’s really anything goes now. I need to vote so I can stand proudly before my kids and so that I can sleep at night, knowing I did the best I could to give them the kind of future they deserve.

[Soxfan58]

6. I love this part

"You can’t tell your daughters that they’re equal to men and worthy of respect, and simultaneously cast your vote for an Olympic level misogynist". I always told my girls they can do anything. Hillary is the shining example of that. See girls I told you, even President.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Family Values

is a lot more than money and divorces and gambling away your wages