I can never vote for Trump, have hated him personally since the 80s ... Hillary, I have only hated since the 90s ... I refuse to vote for either and just last night I was at an opening and my ultra liberal friend claimed that by voting for Gary Johnson, who I know has no fuckin' chance in hell, is voting for Trump!!! I see it as a protest vote, I refuse to vote for shit and shat ... the real battle is for the control of Congress!!!
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:05 PM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum < [email protected]> wrote: > > OK this is a very interesting essay. The author absolutely takes down the > NeverTrumpers and exposes them as either the abject morons or the > incredibly deceitful liars they are, referring to them as "Conservative, > Inc", and showing that they are anything but conservative. > > *Great read*. Hopefully the morons he shreds in it will be jarred back > into reality, or at least some of them anyway. > > First, a description from the leftwing "The Week" that appears to be > horrified by it: > > Let me present to you one of the most intellectually radical political > essays I've read in a long time. > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/> > > > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/> > > Penned by the pseudonymous author Publius Decius Mus for the staunchly > conservative *Claremont Review of Books, *it's titled "The Flight 93 > Election." America is the plane; Trump and his supporters are Todd Beamer > and his fellow passengers who stormed the cockpit in a last-ditch (and > ultimately doomed) effort to forestall catastrophe; and Hillary Clinton and > her progressive allies in the political and media establishment are the > hijackers. > > > As I said: radical. > > > http://theweek.com/articles/647544/heres-most-powerful- > chilling-case-trump-youll-ever-hear > > Then a link to the essay itself: > > The Flight 93 Election > > By: Publius Decius Mus > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/contributor-list/2031/> > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/contributor-list//> > September 5, 2016 > > > (some excerpts)... > > > 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die > anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and > not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. > > > Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor: > a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With > Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances. > > > To ordinary conservative ears, this sounds histrionic. The stakes can’t be > that high because they are never that high—except perhaps in the pages of > Gibbon. Conservative intellectuals will insist that there has been no “end > of history” and that all human outcomes are still possible. They will > even—as Charles Kesler does—admit that America is in “crisis.” But how > great is the crisis? Can things really be so bad if eight years of Obama > can be followed by eight more of Hillary, and yet Constitutionalist > conservatives can still reasonably hope for a restoration of our cherished > ideals? Cruz in 2024! > > ---- > > How have the last two decades worked out for you, personally? If you’re a > member or fellow-traveler of the Davos class, chances are: pretty well. If > you’re among the subspecies conservative intellectual or politician, you’ve > accepted—perhaps not consciously, but unmistakably—your status on the > roster of the Washington Generals of American politics. Your job is to show > up and lose, but you are a necessary part of the show and you do get paid. > To the extent that you are ever on the winning side of anything, it’s as > sophists who help the Davoisie oligarchy rationalize open borders, lower > wages, outsourcing, de-industrialization, trade giveaways, and endless, > pointless, winless war. > > > All of Trump’s 16 Republican competitors would have ensured more of the > same—as will the election of Hillary Clinton. That would be bad enough. But > at least Republicans are merely reactive when it comes to wholesale > cultural and political change. Their “opposition” may be in all cases > ineffectual and often indistinguishable from support. But they don’t dream > up inanities like 32 “genders,” elective bathrooms, single-payer, Iran > sycophancy, “Islamophobia,” and Black Lives Matter. They merely help ratify > them. > > > A Hillary presidency will be pedal-to-the-metal on the entire > Progressive-left agenda, plus items few of us have yet imagined in our > darkest moments. Nor is even that the worst. It will be coupled with a > level of vindictive persecution against resistance and dissent hitherto > seen in the supposedly liberal West only in the most “advanced” > Scandinavian countries and the most leftist corners of Germany and England. > We see this already in the censorship practiced by the Davoisie’s social > media enablers; in the shameless propaganda tidal wave of the mainstream > media; and in the personal destruction campaigns—operated through the > former and aided by the latter—of the Social Justice Warriors. We see it in > Obama’s flagrant use of the IRS to torment political opponents, the > gaslighting denial by the media, and the collective shrug by everyone else. > _____ > > Back on planet earth, that flight of fancy at least addresses what to do > now. The answer to the subsidiary question—will it work?—is much less > clear. By “it” I mean Trumpism, broadly defined as secure borders, economic > nationalism, and America-first foreign policy. We Americans have chosen, in > our foolishness, to disunite the country through stupid immigration, > economic, and foreign policies. The level of unity America enjoyed before > the bipartisan junta took over can never be restored. > > > http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/ > > This guy hits all cylinders in his takedown of the failures of the > republicans, and spells out quite frankly what cowardly little dishonest, > self-serving p*ssies the NeverTrumpers are, and what a sad joke it is that > they even consider themselves to be conservative at all. > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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