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charliehall
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“one never knows who is the lesser of the two evils are especially the way Donald is going now”

Actually you do. It is clearly Trump. In every respect Clinton is a saint compared to him — according to our own values.

Just to give some examples:

Trump has often boasted of his licentious lifestyle. He publicly cheated on his first two wives, has frequently spoken of women in the most demeaning ways, and enthusiastically embraces the support he has been given by convicted rapist Mike Tyson. If this reflects Jewish values I don’t want to be Jewish.

Trump has suggested that the US default on our public debt. Then, challenged on that, he suggested that we could just print money to pay the country’s obligations. Prepare to need to take a shopping cart full of hundred dollar bills to the convenience store to purchase a carton of milk. This is Weimar Germany all over again and you know what succeeded Weimar Germany.

Trump has assembled a foreign policy team of inexperienced isolationists; not even Warren Harding had such an awful group. He would rescind America’s participation in all kinds of international agreements. His willingness to start trade wars will lead to huge increases in the prices of consumer goods and trigger a worldwide depression; think Smoot-Hawley and what that led to in Europe. And don’t think for a moment that his current comments in favor of more settlement building won’t get retracted — remember that he gave a pro-Israel speech at AIPAC just hours after demanding that Israel repay the US all the aid it has been given.

Trump has given hope to all the racists and nativists who had been shut out of politics for decades here in the US. He just included a prominent white supremacist as a convention delegate from California. Then the campaign lied about the fact that the campaign didn’t know about the guy, who had been funding pro-Trump robocalls all over the country with no objections from Trump. These white supremacists hate us as much as they hate blacks and Mexicans; don’t think for a second that they won’t have influence in a Trump administration.

Trump also buys into junk science like the anti-vaccination campaigns. Should there be a serious outbreak of infectious disease we could face a public health disaster.

Trump himself isn’t anti-Semitic. But neither was Mussolini. That didn’t work out well, and neither will this.