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What Your Vote Really Says
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When Donald Trump announced he would be running for president, we laughed. We thought it was a fun gag that would never unfold into what has become the most terrifying thing I and so many other Americans have ever experienced. When he announced his candidacy first we would have never guessed how misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, crass, and down right politically incorrect and down right nasty he is but more shockingly I don't think we realized how successful he would be. This election has brought out the true colors of a lot of people in America and I really just want you to know what you voting for Trump says about you. Im not here to judge your morality or admonish you for having different political views than me, I am just going to be honest about what the rest of us see when you hashtag your "I voted" picture with #Trumpthatbitch or #ImNOTwithher.

Voting for Trump would not only put a sexual predator in the white house but it would also tell the world that you endorse sexual assault towards women. Trump calls it locker room talk, every decent person calls it disgusting and demeaning to women and to men. Voting for him is just giving him a high five and telling him sure, its okay to walk up to a woman and grab her by the pussy. Your vote, your glorification of a sexual predator just lets all the other perverts in America that its okay to pray on women, I mean they elected one how bad could it really be.

Your vote for Trump tells all of your queer friends you could care less about their rights. when you fill in that little box you're piggybacking on a man who not only said he would work to overturn the equal marriage ruling but also reinforce employers and owners legal right to turn away a person based on their sexual orientation. You would never call yourself a homophobe but your vote kind of makes you one anyway because you're contributing to the social digression of this country.

Your vote is literally saying you're a-okay with blindly hating muslims. Like you could care less if they were all marked as muslims and segregated from the majority of the community. Maybe some would even be deported back to the middle east, assuming all muslims are from the middle east of course. You probably have muslim friends, would you ever repeat what Trump has said about muslims to their face? No you probably feel like you're better than that. Well your vote, doesn't really support that.

When you vote Trump, you're hoping every immigrant gets sent back to where they came from. No matter the circumstance, why they left their home country, if they have family here that they would be ripped away from by being deported, you don't care. You don't care that America was literally founded by people fleeing an oppressive government and you can't wait for America to go back to how it used to be! Oh wait, that would mean all the white people leaving and giving natives their land back. Or is this era of greatness between the stealing of america and the big immigrant rush to america? when was that? I don't know either.

Your vote is mean. If you have the privilege to vote for Trump and still sleep at night go for it. But I know so many kind people who are voting for trump solely because your parents told you to, or you are ignorant to what a tyrant he would actually be. Its scary to think that people could so flippantly put the literal human rights of entire groups of people in the hands of someone who as outwardly spoken of taking them away.

Please, please vote wisely.

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