Why are you voting for Kamala Harris, other than you dislike Donald Trump or his policies? I’m just curious, as it seems everyone who votes for Kamala is just because they hate Trump, not because of her.
I think she’s very unlikeable, and was an awful pick to replace Biden.
– Mickey
This comment was from a thread on a YouTube video from a few days ago.
I took the time to write Mickey back to explain, and then ask why he voting for Trump.
Yep, you guessed it, no response.
Which isn’t surprising.
No one on that side wants to admit it out loud.
For me, I’m voting for Kamala Harris because the most important issues to me are:
- preservation of American democracy
- healthcare: preservation of Obamacare/moving toward universal healthcare
- economic growth: boosting small business, not giving tax breaks to billionaires, not slapping tariffs on foreign goods that are going to cause a recession
- public K-12/higher education: we need to invest more, not take money away from, public education
- embrace our diversity: e pluribus unum should be more than a slogan Trump has signaled that he will rule as a dictator.
Trump tried 60 times in his term in the White House to kill Obamacare, with no plan for what would replace it, and now we’re hearing House Speaker Mike Johnson say killing Obamacare is Priority #1 if Trump wins.
Millions of people losing health insurance, so they can own the libs.
Nice.
Trump’s tax cuts ran up $8 trillion in national debt in four years. His tariffs will push inflation to historic levels and put millions out of work.
All to own the libs.
We’ll survive another four years of Trump, god forbid, because we survived Andrew Johnson, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, the first four years of Trump.
I’m 52 years old. I’ve maybe got another good 20 years before I’ll start to slow down. I don’t want the next 20 years to be a fight to undo the damage that this guy is going to wreak on this country.
It sounds to me that the Trump voters who don’t want to articulate why they support him voting more against Kamala Harris because they find her “unlikeable.” I can’t imagine what they’d find comparably likeable about Trump, but have at it.
Is it that he is promising to use the military against American citizens? To throw people like me who publicly disagree with him in jail? Is it that he thinks POWs and soldiers who are killed in war are “suckers”?
I can say with confidence that I wouldn’t stand for a Democratic candidate who would want to throw Trump supporters in jail because they disagree with their policies or candidacies. Or a Democratic candidate who would call up the military to break up a political protest.
Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor, former senator, the current vice president. She has ample qualification for this job. She is pledging to address the issues that I think are important, and to work with Congress to get her plans into effect.
Need any more than that?
You sound like you’re jealous of Donald Trump. What’s up with that?
– Santiago
This Santiago guy has been needling me for a few days now, intimating that a point that I’ve raised in several columns about Donald Trump being paid $300,000 at the age of 3 to serve as the superintendent of a Trump company apartment complex is a sign that I’m somehow jealous of Trump’s life of privilege.
Yeah, no, Santiago obviously doesn’t know me well, which is fine, not everybody reads every word.
Those who do, from reading my columns over the years, know my backstory – I was born to teen parents, grew up in a trailer park, sexually abused as a kid, parents split up, things got worse, but I was still able to graduate second in my high-school class, earn a degree from the University of Virginia, and I’ve been fortunate in the 30 years since to build a successful media business from nothing.
Where, in any of that, do I sound jealous of somebody who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple?
It means more when you worked for it, is my guiding principle.
I wasn’t a distance runner, by any means, until I took up running in 2014, at the age of 42, found out that I was good at it, and started running marathons.
That’s work, training for and running a marathon.
Imagine Donald Trump running a marathon.
I didn’t get an allowance growing up, so I mowed grass to make money to buy books and sports equipment.
I might be a successful business type now, but I still mow my own grass every week, and when I do, I’m in touch with the kid in me who made ten bucks here and there because that’s what I needed to do.
Donald Trump has never mowed a lawn.
There’s a lot of things Donald Trump can’t do.
Dude probably doesn’t put his own pants on in the morning.
My new buddy Santiago may or may not know how to put on his pants in the morning.
He’s like a lot of that MAGA side, good at complaining, not good at much else.
I’m imagining that Santiago’s retirement plan is playing the lottery and hoping he wins.
Mine is continuing to work hard, after already making it big.
But the system is rigged against them.
How about realizing that you’re not owed anything?
Reality check: white folks, who are splitting 55-45 for Trump right now, also make up the biggest number of welfare recipients, and it ain’t even close.
People like me who work to pay for people like Santiago to complain all day about the system is rigged against them.
I’m not jealous of him for that.
Pissed off, yes, but not jealous.
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