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Related: About this forumMy Children Won’t Let Me Vote for Donald Trump
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/09/17/my-children-wont-let-me-vote-for-donald-trump/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+Pavlovitz&utm_content=My+Children+Won%27t+Let+Me+Vote+for+Donald+TrumpMy Children Wont Let Me Vote for Donald Trump
September 17, 2016 / John Pavlovitz
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You cant really tell your kids youre against bullying, and vote for a world-class bully for President.
You cant claim that racial, religious, and gender equality are important to you, while supporting someone so fully committed to division and exclusion and discrimination.
You cant 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 cant tell your daughters that theyre equal to men and worthy of respect, and simultaneously cast your vote for an Olympic level misogynist who regularly offers the crudest evaluations of womens physical appearances, emotional stability, and intellectual capacities.
You cant 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 cant 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 youre a parent who supports Trump, Im not questioning your politics. Im questioning what youre telling your kids life is really about, and how youre demonstrating consistency and integrity to them.
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My Children Won’t Let Me Vote for Donald Trump (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2016
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babylonsister
(171,070 posts)2. Gawd, are you ill-informed and on the wrong forum. See ya! nt
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)3. K&R!!
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)4. Great perspective....nt
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)5. excellent! Hard to argue with his reasoning. K&R
Id never support Donald Trump for a nearly endless list of reasons, but perhaps most importantly because I wouldnt be able to look my children in the eye and tell them that they can disregard everything weve ever sewn into their lives; that none of it mattered, that its 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
(3,479 posts)6. I love this part
"You cant tell your daughters that theyre 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
(43,182 posts)7. Family Values
is a lot more than money and divorces and gambling away your wages