From my Facebook page --
[Later note: The photo that went with this Facebook post is gone! Wonder what fellow I was talking about?]
This fellow and I have voted in opposite ways in national elections since 1968. I hope that if our Democratic nominee were ever to be as crude, ignorant, cruel, and unAmerican as Donald Trump that I would have the moral courage to hold my nose and vote for a Bush, a Reagan, or even a Nixon.
There are plenty of positive reasons to support Hillary Clinton from my progressive point of view, but in this election the other choice is so repulsive that, in absolute seriousness, I
could no more vote for Trump than vote for a fascist or a communist. If we had, as I wish we did, an automatic run-off system I'd record a second place vote for Johnson or Stein, or given a million more choices, still never choose Trump.
I was so sad in 1976 when some of my most admired loved ones opposed our beloved Jimmy Carter whom I was working so hard to elect. But I understood. When they rejoiced in 1980 while I grieved, I was disappointed but I understood. We have some disageement over where the proper balance of liberty and common good resudes. Still we all revere the goals of the Preamble.
That loved ones and friends who would ever consider a vote for Trump is the most profoundly disappointing political fact of my lifetime. I cannot understand that. I cannot reconcile the Preamble with a vote for Trump.
Georgia is a battleground state in 2016. Please register. Please vote. Please do your part to save America from the most divisive major candidate in at least 150 years.
