Trump Voters, Ignoring Decency

WHEN DONALD TRUMP announced his candidacy, I supported him. New blood. A fresh approach. But my support was short lived. By the fiftieth time he called Ted Cruz "lying Ted", I was done. When Trump won the election, I reminded myself to congratulate him. When he was inaugurated, I told myself to give him a chance. I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. Its one thing to give someone a chance, and quite another to vote for someone one month after learning, from the candidate's own words, that he is a sexual predator, and proud of it. Under these circumstances, anyone who voted for Donald Trump is either morally deficient, or lacking in judgment. The Access Hollywood video was released on October 7, a full month before the election. more than enough time to weigh one's options, and find another candidate to support. The argument that voting for Trump was the only way to keep Hillary Clinton from being elected is a hollow excuse, a lame justification for a clear lapse in judgment and morality. The policies of an elected political leader can be opposed, especially in America. Had Hillary Clinton been elected, her millions of opponents would have had ample opportunity to expose and oppose her failed policies and leadership, and to replace them. That is the nature of the American political system. To knowingly elect a self proclaimed sexual predator, proud of his crimes against women, in indefensible. Hypocritically and falsely, Trump's angry mob of amoral supporters chanted "lock her up" about a person whose legal record remains free of blemishes, despite a quarter century smear campaign waged against her, backed by right wing billionaires, perpetrated by people with no integrity, whose fabrications have long since been exposed as lies. Those who voted for Trump wanted to incarcerate the wrong person, and the moral integrity of those who attack her remains incarcerated to this day, securely locked up and forgotten behind unfettered political ambition, untampered by even the slightest trace of moral foundation.