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(149,297 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)You should self delete this. What's next, jokes about alcoholics or obese people?
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Mosby
(16,160 posts)And true, republicans are either mentally ill or just bad people, your choice.
intheflow
(28,403 posts)Lots of people with mental health problems didn't vote for Trump. This is an ableist post.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)wanted to vote. Our father and I explained issues and candidates to him but insisted he make his own choices.Which he did. He later told me he voted straight Dem ticket, "I'm not crazy enough to ever vote for a republican" was his explanation.
Our polling place was staffed with elderly neighbor ladies in a older Italian's house. All of them were well aware of how bad off my brother was. Atillio, home owner, was like our grandfather and plied us with wine, salumi and cheeses after we voted. I'm so proud you boys did your duty, don't ever forget to do it" was his constant advice.
It was quite an adventure for my brother. He was still hearing some voices and hallucinating a bit. He kept asking me to come in to the both with him. It took him around half an hour to vote. every now and then we heard him arguing with who ever he was hearing. But he got through it and wore his I Voted sticker proudly. Our dad took us out for dinner.
My younger brother died about four years later but until his dying day voting that day was one of his proudest accomplishments.
He would hate Trump.
oh, I almost forgot.... ha ha ha haha sounds about right to me.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)Slight variation, but when I was canvassing for votes in 2004 I knocked on the door and asked the person who answered, an individual with a (mental) developmental disabiliy, to speak with John Doe. He said, that's me! I explained I was there to see if he had decided who he was going to vote for in a couple of weeks. Around this time a parent appeared behind him and listened as he explained he was going to vote for Kerry - and why.
A couple of weeks later I called to remind him to vote - and then saw him at the polls the next day. He was so proud to have been able to vote, and pleased to talk to a stranger about who he wanted to vote for. He took (and your brother) took their right to vote more seriously than a lot of people without developmental disabilities or mental health conditions
"jokes" like the OP are not funny. They stigmatize and infantilize people with mental illnesses.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Once was bad, but the second time around, c'mon, he had to have seen what the guy did. How could any rational person want that numbskull to have a second term?
stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)elocs
(22,474 posts)People chose to vote for Trump. Hatred, racism, a lack of compassion and empathy are not mental illnesses.
For those of us who do have a family history of mental illness, who have loved ones that we've watched suffer from mental illness, this is no joke and no occasion to use it for cheap humor.
Stigmatizing illness leads to suffering.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I have PTSD, depression and anxiety. You add MS, it's pretty ruff.
And my illness has nothing to do with my feelings on MF45.