While Hilary Clinton is certainly not the perfect or even ideal candidate, she is by far the better choice over Donald Trump. Trump has based his campaign almost entirely off of fear mongering and hatred and has quickly become America’s poster child for xenophobia. Since the beginning of his campaign, he has endeavored to ‘keep it real’ by completely lacking in diplomacy and discretion while simultaneously failing to understand the basic inner workings of American government. His lack of basic respect and decency was first exemplified when he announced his candidacy and launched his campaign by hurling a series of insults at the general Mexican population in an incorrect and off base attempt to address immigration reform.
After claiming that Mexico is sending its worst citizens to invade the U.S., he went on to oddly accuse Mexicans of being rapists. However, he did show a shred of sympathy by saying that he assumes some are good people. It was not until the Isis attacks in both Lebanon and Paris, that he continued his prejudice, revealing his plan to ban all people of Islamic faith from the country, somehow disregarding the fact that there are over 3 million muslim people currently living in the grand old U.S. of A. In addition to his raging racism and Islamophobia, Trump balances out his hatefulness by also being one of America’s leading misogynists.
So far, he has received several gold medals for degrading women on national television, having recently directed several sexist comments towards Fox News personality Megyn Kelly, in which he referenced her period as a hindrance to her occupational duties. Let’s also not forget that he once claimed in an interview that he would want to date his daughter Ivanka, if she was, you know, not his daughter. I don’t know about you, but I personally believe a father should never even have thoughts like that about his own daughter, let alone proclaim it for all the world to hear. T
here are obviously numerous reasons to dislike Trump, some of which I have already listed in great satirical detail, however, there is one reason in particular that many people seem to forget. Because of Trump’s lack of diplomacy and ability to engage in peaceful negotiation, it is very likely that his influence in foreign affairs would result in a gaggle of new enemies, and I feel like we’ve been involved in enough unnecessary wars and conflict already.
So, if you’re an actually decent human being, please do not vote for Trump.