I'm not going to name any names.
Could these be the faces of those older white guys* who would vote for a rich right-wing racist demagogue?
Could they be the ones who are in danger of losing their jobs--or have already lost them, or never had them in the first place--and vote for the very candidates who destroy their jobs or send them overseas?
Could they--children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren of immigrants, all of them--vote for someone who wants to build a wall between this country and its neighbor, and wants to ban all adherents of the world's largest religion from entering the United Sates?
Could those folks--half of whom would have trouble coming up with $400 to meet an emergency expense--be the ones voting for someone who would make it easier for employers to get away with paying less than minimum wage to immigrants?
Could they--whose schools, hospitals and infrastructure are crumbling--vote for someone who'd slash funding for such things--just to make sure "freeloaders" from other countries can't have them?
Tell me: Do they really, knowingly, go into the voting booth and cut off their noses to spite their faces?
*--Disclosure: Had it not been for my transition, I'd be an old (or old-ish) white guy!
Could these be the faces of those older white guys* who would vote for a rich right-wing racist demagogue?
Could they be the ones who are in danger of losing their jobs--or have already lost them, or never had them in the first place--and vote for the very candidates who destroy their jobs or send them overseas?
Could they--children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren of immigrants, all of them--vote for someone who wants to build a wall between this country and its neighbor, and wants to ban all adherents of the world's largest religion from entering the United Sates?
Could those folks--half of whom would have trouble coming up with $400 to meet an emergency expense--be the ones voting for someone who would make it easier for employers to get away with paying less than minimum wage to immigrants?
Could they--whose schools, hospitals and infrastructure are crumbling--vote for someone who'd slash funding for such things--just to make sure "freeloaders" from other countries can't have them?
Tell me: Do they really, knowingly, go into the voting booth and cut off their noses to spite their faces?
*--Disclosure: Had it not been for my transition, I'd be an old (or old-ish) white guy!
