Two huge red flags about Trump were his announcing that only he and he alone could save the country and that we'd have to forget about conservatism until he saves the country.
I voted for the puke, but those two statements alone were enough to make me despise the orange-faced clown. When the country has two candidates the likes of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump we're in a very bad state. Fecal sandwich or fecal sandwich with catsup.
It's one thing to hold your nose, as I did, and vote for His Orangeness to avoid Hillary, and it's quite another to attach one's lips to Trump's enormous posterior and latch on lamphrey eel-like praising him as the greatest person in the history of the world.
I applaud you for your honesty, it's refreshing.
My HH and its 4 voters voted for candidates other than Trump or Clinton. I was glad to see Hillary defeated, and am willing to give Trump a chance...what other choice is there?
I learned my lesson long ago when it came to dealing with those wrapped in the cult of personality, or liberals who wrap themselves in their ideological cocoons. I was excoriated during my last two months of high school (same school as Rachel Maddow...lol), simply for accepting a 4 year ROTC scholarship.
I found it illuminating, and rather humorous, in that I had the best scholarship of any in my graduating class of 550. It allowed me to choose any of over 300 colleges in the US that offered ROTC, and all academic expenses would be paid for 4 years (my summer jobs covered my room and board).
It wasn't until many years later that I understood the impact it had on my father, who enlisted in the Navy in 1944. I never realized it when he visited me during my Officers Basic at Fort Bliss, when I took him to dinner in the Officers Club. As the saying goes, "a son does not learn how to become a son until he becomes a father." Unfortunately, both he and my stepfather passed away before I had children.
Apologies for the thread hijack.
