Professor submitted: I support Hillary Clinton
I’ve had it with Donald Trump! I have listened carefully to the 7-2016 GOP Presidential Debates. None of the 2016 GOP candidates are impressive. This especially applies to Donald Trump. He reminds me of the Greek god, Narcissus. In other words, Donald Trump is narcissistic which, according to Freudian psychoanalysis, denotes an excessive degree of self-esteem and emotional immaturity despite his multi-billionaire status. So, even though money talks, Trump should walk!
My unwavering support of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is based on her experience, assertive style, intellectual depth, and obvious leadership skills. In fact, Hillary served as first lady during her husband’s presidency from 1993-2001. Subsequently, she sought and won the U.S. Senate seat from New York, which she retained from 2001-2009. And finally, Hillary served as Secretary of State, during the Obama Administration, from 2009-2013. Hillary Clinton is a highly qualified candidate for President of the United States.
Isn’t it about time that we elect our first woman president, especially since other countries, such as Germany, Great Britain, and India, have done so either recently or in the not-too-distant past? Remember Angela Merkel, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi? Even though we tout ourselves as far ahead of other first-world countries, are we? Or, are we far behind other first-world countries?
Unlike Donald Trump, who references President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and even his GOP presidential candidate rivals as stupid, Hilary Clinton is not stupid! She is an advocate in support of the rights of women, including abortion rights, is a proponent in support of a substantial increase in the minimum wage and income equality for both genders, and is open to the entry of immigrants into the United States and to their pursuit of American citizenship without thinking of all immigrants as criminals, rapists, and drug addicts, unlike Donald Trump.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg as regards Hillary Clinton’s positive initiatives related to numerous other seminal issues, such as gun control, health care for all, and ISIS. Isn’t it about time, then, to ‘dump Trump’? Or, as Sarah Palin would never say: “You betcha!”
Andrew Slater • Apr 11, 2016 at 2:27 am
In her 50 years in public office, name 5 Hillary accomplishments.
Okay, name 3.
Okay, name 1. Some idea of hers, that she took from inception to fruition.
Let’s discuss her character (or lack thereof) and her scandal-laden career. How a woman who has only held public office has amassed $47 million and four mansions. The private e-mail server which every government computer expert agrees was hacked. That there was no way terrorists would have known when the ambassador to Libya and his staff would be present at the embassy at certain day and time but for what was on her server, whereupon they were assassinated, and when they asked for help, she didn’t answer the call.
Why are you even voting Democrat?
One of the most important differences between Democrats and Republicans is how each regards the role and the size of the government.
Democrats (usually liberals) believe that the State should be the most powerful force in society. Among many other things, the Government should be in control of educating every child, should provide all health care, and should regulate – often to the minutest detail – how businesses conduct their business. In Germany, for instance, the Government legislates the time of day stores have to close. In short, Democrats believe there should be no power that competes with government.. Not parents, not businesses, not private schools, not religious institutions, not even the individual human conscience.
Republicans (usually conservatives), on the other hand, believe that government’s role in society should be limited to absolute necessities. Such as national defense, and being the resource of last resort: to help citizens who cannot be helped by family, by community, or by religious and secular charities.
Republicans understand that as Government grows in size and power, the following will inevitably happen:
1. There will be ever-increasing amounts of corruption. Power and money breed corruption. People in government will sell government influence for personal and political gain, and people outside of government will seek to buy influence and favors. In Africa and Latin America, government corruption has been the single biggest factor in holding nations back from progressing.
2. Individual liberty will decline. With few exceptions, such as an unrestricted right to abortion, individual liberty is less important to Democrats than to Republicans. This is neither an opinion nor a criticism. It is simple logic: The more control government has over people’s lives, the less liberty people have.
3. Countries with ever-expanding governments will either reduce the size of their government, or eventually collapse economically. Every welfare state ultimately becomes a Ponzi scheme, relying on new payers to pay previous payers, And when it runs out of new payers, the scheme collapses. All of the welfare states of the world – including the wealthy European countries – are already experiencing this problem, to varying degrees.
4. In order to pay for an ever-expanding government, taxes are constantly increased. But at a given level of taxation, the society’s wealth producers will either stop working, work less, hire fewer people, or move their business out of the state or out of the country.
5. Big government produces big deficits and ever increasing and ultimately unsustainable debt. This too is only logical.. The more money the State hands out. The more money people will demand from the state. No recipient of free money has ever said, “Thank you, I have enough.” Unless big governments get smaller, they will all eventually collapse under own weight. With terrible consequences, socially as well as economically.
6. The bigger the government , the greater the opportunities for doing great evil. The 20th century was the most murderous century in recorded history. And who did all this killing? Big governments. Evil individuals without power can only do so much harm. But when evil individuals take control of big government, the amount of harm they can do is essentially unlimited.
Republicans fear Big government. Democrats fear Big Business.
But Coca-Cola cannot break into your house or confiscate your wealth. Only Big Government can do that. As irresponsible as any business has ever been, it is only Big Government that can build concentration camps and commit genocide.
7. Big Government eats away at the moral character of a nation. People no longer take care of other people. After all, they know the government will do that. That’s why Americans give far more of their money and volunteer far more of their time to charity than do Europeans at the same economic level.
Without the belief in an ever-expanding government, there is no Democratic Party. Without a belief in limited government, there is no Republican Party and there is no prosperity, individual liberty, and less invention. Less of everything really.