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Left's Moral Commitment Vs Right's Partisanship

calamity said:
He just pardoned a racist, pervert who tortured prisoners in his detention units. That's about as deplorable as someone can be.
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You're entitled to believe that. I am just highlighting that pardoning an alleged racist cop (accusing trump of being pro-racist with circumstantial evidence) is no where near even the league of the accusations based on circumstantial evidence on Hilary Clinton.

So no it could be worse.
 
Conaeolos said:
You're entitled to believe that. I am just highlighting that pardoning an alleged racist cop (accusing trump of being pro-racist with circumstantial evidence) is no where near even the league of the accusations based on circumstantial evidence on Hilary Clinton.

So no it could be worse.
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Well, I did say not voting for Hillary was the moral thing to do. Of course, that doesn't mean voting for Trump. Just not voting for either would have been the only way to stay clean here.
 
calamity said:
Well, I did say not voting for Hillary was the moral thing to do. Of course, that doesn't mean voting for Trump. Just not voting for either would have been the only way to stay clean here.
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Agreed. But that's not the uninformed masses for you. Many people just make a call and not-Hillary was a popular republican sentiment.
 
calamity said:
It's simple. A Trump voter either supports and condones Trump's actions, words and disgusting nature or they ignored it. Neither are traits to be proud of.
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I'm not a Trump voter. I hate his behavior but I really like his agenda. It has nothing to do with pride. It is about common sense. It never matters to me what a politician says.
 
calamity said:
This discussion deserved its own thread. It does not judge those who voted HRC or DJT if they truly liked their candidate. It involves those who voted for them while holding their nose, knowing full well that the candidate did not represent their own personal moral values or standards of decency.

Not voting for Hillary even though she represented the lesser evil was mortally the right thing to do. Voting for Trump because he had an R behind his name was not.
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Before you can make such an argument, you would first have to make a moral case for Hillary. Yu have not. You have simply asserted it as fact that she is the lesser of two evils without offering any proof. It should also be pointed out that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. That is hardly a choice and certainly not a moral one.

But what your thread demonstrates is the real problem in American politics: the idea that my side is morally right and yours is, not just wrong, but immoral. There is no common ground possible under those circumstances and declaring your political opposition as evil necessarily leads to violence . Which is what we are seeing.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm... are you trying to say that Hillary lost because moral (or were they mortal?) demorats (in swing states?) simply stayed home?

IMHO, Trump won the "not a DC insider or career politician" vote which only he could possibly stir.
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I dont know if that is a typo or an existing slur but I'm gonna give you credit for this anyway.
Can we use RepoRats as well?
 
Quag said:
I dont know if that is a typo or an existing slur but I'm gonna give you credit for this anyway.
Can we use RepoRats as well?
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I use republicant or demorat (neither conventionally spelled nor capitalized out of equal disrespect) to describe the party for a bigger federal government or the party for a huge federal government, respectively. I hope that answers your question better than a simple no - I ended up with the "republicants" and the "demorats" but neither deserve to be capitalized much less be given two capital letters.
 
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calamity said:
You failed to address the topic of the thread, which is: The Left showed more moral integrity than the Right by not voting for the lesser of the two evil candidates. The Right, OTOH, knowingly voted for a crook, a lout and man of low moral integrity.
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I get your point but I disagree with it. Trump clearly exposed his unfitness, more than that, his dangerous self absorption. To withhold your vote for Hillary on account of moral squeamishness is a kind of immorality in and of itself.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I use republicant or demorat (neither conventionally spelled nor capitalized out of equal disrespect) to describe the party for a bigger federal government or the party for a huge federal government, respectively. I hope that answers your question better than a simple no - I ended up with the "republicants" and the "demorats" but neither deserve to be capitalized much less be given two capital letters.
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Republicants is a good one too.
Did you trademark these?
 
calamity said:
This discussion deserved its own thread. It does not judge those who voted HRC or DJT if they truly liked their candidate. It involves those who voted for them while holding their nose, knowing full well that the candidate did not represent their own personal moral values or standards of decency.

Not voting for Hillary even though she represented the lesser evil was mortally the right thing to do. Voting for Trump because he had an R behind his name was not.
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That's rather a leap, if you consider all her pay-to-play to the Clinton Foundation from a long, long list of foreign leaders while she was SOS, as well as her many other cases of corruption, not to mention her documented illegal handling of classified materials, and obstruction of justice.

My guess is that some didn't even bother to consider those things when voting.
 
calamity said:
You failed to address the topic of the thread, which is: The Left showed more moral integrity than the Right by not voting for the lesser of the two evil candidates. The Right, OTOH, knowingly voted for a crook, a lout and man of low moral integrity.
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ocean515 said:
Is it possible to agree that your view is simply a personal opinion, and your desire to label voters immoral is driven by ideological bias?
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Indeed.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Nope, because I neither wish to profit from nor restrict their use. ;)
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Something that good deserves some kind of recognition.
So Ill just give you a big kudos

KUDOS
 
Quag said:
Something that good deserves some kind of recognition.
So Ill just give you a big kudos

KUDOS
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Thank you. Simply dropping or adding a letter is pretty darned easy but it is a bit harder not to start a sentence with them to avoid capitalization. ;)
 
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