Eric Cartman for Hillary
I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton because of Eric Cartman.
Specifically, I’m endorsing Hillary because I believe Donald
Trump has “Authoritah-ian” tendencies.
Trump likes Foreign Dictators
I first noticed this tendency back in March when Trump
started talking about how the Tiananmen Square Massacre was a show of Chinese
strength and good government. That
didn’t compute to me and at the time I wrapped
it, like an albatross, around the neck of the Republican Party. I genuinely
assumed the Grand Old Party would snap out of it, after all traditionally they
are associated with individual freedom and standing up against totalitarianism…
but judging by their nominee the GOP has given up on all that.
In addition to looking to Chinese repression as a model for
governing, Trump has also looked to Russia. Despite what Mike Pence has said,
Trump has praised
Putin, which should cost him the election, because it endangers
western
democracy.
Trump Says He’ll Ignore the Rule of Law and Rule as
a Warlord
Trump has also called for the suppression
of the 1st amendment, jailing
his opponents, practicing
torture, killing
relatives of terrorists, and forcing the army to commit war crimes even if
they object. These are not American values or actions, these are the dreams
of a third world warlord.
Some of Trump’s Followers are Really Scary
On one hand, you have a group calling itself The Lion Guard who are “Willing to
forcefully protect” Donald Trump. Note that their tag line is “Better to be a
lion for a day than a lamb for eternity” a mangled Benito Mussolini
quote… one
of Trump’s favorites.
On the other hand, David
Duke and the Klan
support him. And, it would appear, by Trump and his son following and re-tweeting
Neo-Nazis,
Trump supports these racists right back. In fact, Jews my age and younger are feeling
anti-Semitism in a big way as of late, because they are alive in the age of
Trump.
This is a Bad Combo
Take one part Putinism and praise of Chinese Communist Repression;
mix it with tossing out American values both at home and abroad; add in
Americans praising fascism, Klansmen and Neo-Nazis coming out of the closet,
and Trump egging them all on. Then squish it all together in a
man who believes he
alone can fix what ails America and that he’ll bring
Law and Order to America. Let it bake for a few months, and yikes, we have
baked our own version of American authoritarianism, or “Authoritah-ianism” as I like to call it.
Finding out what Authoritah-ianism will look like is
Rather Risky
What might this look like?
A revved up nation wide version
of political
payback, maybe?
Or maybe, Huey
Long 2.0?
Or maybe, Sinclair Lewis was
onto something?
Or maybe, the next four years will just be a very bad episode of South Park.
Because giving Authoritah-ianism a try seems like a
dangerous proposition, please give Hillary Clinton a second look.
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