This is kind of hypocrisy. Apologizing on behalf of white people for racial hatred. That in itself is racism.
You can't defeat racism by using racism.
I didn't vote for either of them, but I would have voted for Trump over Hillary if I was forced to do so. I spent far too much time researching her (I liked her at first) and for me ACTIONS speak louder than WORDS. Trump could be really bad, and we'll find out. Yet everyone was afraid of words.
You talk about evolving and it is funny how people belittle and use that tactic when things don't go their way. That is a bit hypocritical as well.
I will say people did not evolve, yet it wasn't just Trump supporters. People still seem to believe the words that come out of presidential candidate mouths.
They believe the promises that candidates make that they then do not keep or perhaps they do exactly the opposite. They also imagine nightmares from WORDS that Trump says. Yet they are still words.
People will have evolved when they are more concerned about ACTIONS than they are WORDS. What bad things did/does a person actually do?
It is actually for this reason I did not like Hillary. Her actions when she held political office (and I am not talking about the emails) were not good. Trump could end up being as bad or worse... yet because all we have is words to compare it to and they are campaign words... it is guessing, speculating, and letting our imaginations run wild.
We WILL find out how good or bad he is.
I fully expect him to be an ass. As to the rest... I have no clue.
I voted for neither of them.
I look at their platforms and policy plans. The Democratic platform evolved a lot with Sanders help in the primaries and before the convention. Clinton's policy plans were the most progressive we've seen in decades. While everyone will be focused on Trump's antics, Congress will be dismantling protections of our public lands, water quality, air quality, labor laws, reproductive rights, and voting rights, while giving tax cuts to the wealthiest. Kansas and Wisconsin are the models - the outcomes are not good.
When I've done that in the past it has ended up being meaningless once they are elected. What they say when they are campaigning ends up being meaningless. It is what they actually DO that matters.
I am no prophet. I can say Hillary was on EVERY side of every issue that I can think of at one point or another. I really have no clue what her actual plan was.
Sanders was pretty clear. He didn't have a clue on some of the things he was claiming, but overall he was a decent guy. I've watched his voting record for about a decade now as often he is one of the few voting the way I like. That isn't always true. He's voted on some things I was not happy about as well. That's politics though. I'm not going to find the 100% candidate.
Hillary though I only believe in one things. She is really good at lying. If she is speaking there is a good chance it is not what she actually plans to do.
As for Trump. When he speaks he will say stupid shit, and he is an ass. As to what he will do... SPECULATION... no clue...
All the bad business things like Trump U and such Hillary actually was involved with OTHER similar universities. Big money. Education system is pretty broken and some people are making a lot of money.
Are they stupid for doing it? From a business sense of the word no. From an ethical sense of the word it's pretty stupid.
Yet, Trump has never held office so all we can do is GUESS. I am not a prophet so I don't claim to know what he is going to do. I also don't believe in prophets so if you want to say he IS going to do something, sorry I won't believe you. If you want to say he MIGHT do X, Y, Z. Then I won't say you are wrong. I have no clue what he is going to do. X, Y, Z could happen.
I simply know Hillary was a very corrupt and dishonest person. People will mention that other people are like this too and it is common with politicians and almost across the board they would be corrupt. Yet a person shop lifting a single candy bar and a person robbing a bank are both robbers. You can decide which you believe is worse. The corruption level with Hillary is far beyond that of anyone else I know in politics. ANYONE ELSE.
Ok, I'll change my 'will' to 'might' and then check back here, on the blockchain, in the future. I do read party platforms and policy papers, and go by them and actual past votes, where they exist. In my experience, it's been pretty accurate in tracking the general direction of the administration that comes in. Time will tell.
Trump has laid out the outlines of what he wants to do and how, so it should be more than a guess about where his focus will be, unless you are saying he is fundamentally untrustworthy. It takes thousands of political appointments to make any Presidential agenda happen, as well as Congress. His capacity to make those thousands of appointments is limited, without deep reliance on the Republican bench. And we know - not a guess, not a prediction - what that party platform, policies, and past votes have been, too. Now that Kris Kobach from Kansas, the creator of Arizona's SB 1070, is on Trump's transition team, the limits of the word 'might' become a little more well-defined than a full-on 'guess'.
I can go with that. Thanks for changing it to might. I truly have no clue what is going to happen at this point. I also don't know what Trump will be like with political power. We shall see.
I didn't vote for either of them. I do consider Trump the lesser of two evils in the case of him and Hillary, but that is going off of him having no records of certain types to compare to. It doesn't matter though as I promised I'd never vote for the lesser of two evils again and I stuck to that promise.
Let me know when you finally ever vote, then.
Do you realize what your job is as a voter? To vote for the person that best represents you. That was neither of those guys for me. There are only TWO ways to really throw your vote away. 1) Vote for someone that doesn't represent you, or 2) or not vote at all. The rest of the throw your vote away is all peer pressure bullshit that actually has nothing to do with what your job actually is as a citizen. So when you really vote let me know. :)
Interesting - We see our job as a voter very differently. Representing me is only one of many jobs those guys have. They also will represent many other folks, too. Like you, I can't find anyone on a ballot that represents me completely. So I look for who they will be able to represent effectively. And that information is embedded in their platforms, policies, and past votes. Those guys may represent some folks I don't care for, and they may neglect to represent other folks that I absolutely care for. So I balance that.
And my voting is only one piece of my job as a citizen. Another is to stay actively engaged with people in and out of the political system, who can make things happen about the issues and people I care about. Politics is ugly and nasty because it's about control of power to make things happen -- we see that in tiny ways even about the direction and progress of Steemit. But it's less ugly and less nasty than making things happen by fascism, feudalism, or war - whether local, international, or anything in-between.