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Voting Primer

Not that anyone has asked me, but here’s my easy-to-use guide to voting, one way or the other, for the next President of the United States of America.  I have attempted to be substantive and devoid of innuendo, bias or politics, (you know, that boil on the ass of society that is as much about fair and responsible governance as health insurance is about health).

Donald J. Trump:  He is known as a real estate developer and reality television personality.  His real estate business is fraught with litigation, civil and criminal, with regard to cheating and racial bias and the repeated use of corporate bankruptcy statutes that have allowed him to escape responsibility for millions of dollars in debt.  He has admittedly avoided paying Federal taxes, possibly for twenty years.  He is enamored with heavy-handed despots applauding their strength of purpose without thought towards the human impact of such power.  He is a serial liar who will say anything for attention.  He has shamelessly berated Mexicans, Muslims, women, the handicapped, prisoners of war and Gold Star parents.  He is his own biggest cheerleader.  He has run his eighteen-month race to become the leader of the free world based on the following policies:

  1. Building a wall between the US and Mexico that will be paid for, (although totally denied by Mexican officials past and present), by Mexico
  2. Deporting millions of undocumented aliens
  3. Abolishing ObamaCare and replacing it with something “really terrific”
  4. Overturning Roe v. Wade
  5. Bringing jobs back from China and Mexico
  6. Bombing the shit out of ISIS
  7. Cutting taxes, especially for the wealthiest individuals and corporations

He offers no specific information about any of these things other than his repeated exhortation to, “Believe me!”  He boasts of the fact that his lack of experience or preparation for public service is one of his greatest assets.

Hillary Rodham Clinton:  She has spent most of her adult life as a public servant.  She has officially and as a private citizen worked to improve the lives of families and children, in particular.  She is an attorney, was a proactive First Lady of the United States, a forceful US Senator and a tireless Secretary of State.  She has been tainted by her embrace of the worst elements of the political process and her unfortunate choice to dance around the plain and simple truth.  She has been running for this office her entire life and has delineated, in clear detail on her website, the following policies:

  1. Super-charging the economy by investing in jobs to combat climate change and rebuilding our sadly-decaying infrastructure
  2. Passing fair and just immigration reform
  3. Retooling ObamaCare and adding a public option
  4. Supporting affordable education and equal pay for all
  5. Taxing corporate outsourcing
  6. Keeping us safe from terrorism and emboldening the US as a strong, leading diplomatic force throughout the world
  7. Cutting taxes for middle income families and insuring that the highest earners pay their fair share

She truly believes that we are Stronger Together.  She may be the most qualified person to have ever run for POTUS.

Pick one before you enter the voting booth…so you don’t get confused.