Posted on 08/23/2016 11:51:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Get this: According to The New York Times, some wives are threatening to divorce their husbands if the fellows vote for Donald Trump.
The Times featured one couple, a male dentist and a female a doctor, who had never talked much about politics before. When the wife learned her husband was for Trump, she threatened to divorce him and move to Canada.
Sheesh. It makes one long for the good old days when a fellow had to run off with a cocktail waitress before his wife called in the lawyers.
The Federalist shared some interesting insights on The Times article. Journalist Denise C. McAllister argues that in 2016, "you are who you vote for."
"Why are voters not merely being associated with Trump, but actually and essentially being identified with him, sharing the same characteristics of racism and sexism that have been attached to him (justified or not)?" she writes.
And why, she ponders, do some voters who loathe Trump for what they perceive to be his negative characteristics give Hillary Clinton a free pass with hers?
Hillary does have a long history of habitually telling tale tales. She failed to be a good feminist by aggressively attacking the women her husband was caught having dalliances with. Even an ardent Hillary supporter has to concede that she used her power in the State Department to dole out favors in return for massive contributions to the foundation she and her husband own.
"Looking at Clinton's sordid history of political and personal corruption, we have a profile of a person who is deeply untrustworthy, selfish and motivated by money, not the general welfare of American citizens," writes McAllister. "Yet little, if any, stigma is attached to those who are voting for her."
So why is Trump getting hit so hard whereas Hillary is largely given a free pass? McAllister argues that it is a reflection of the pathetic state of our culture.
"In our society, the Left has effectively shifted our culture's values away from traditional morals to a specified group of behaviors they deem intolerable above any other," she writes. "The new commandments are: Thou shalt not be a racist. Thou shalt not be a sexist. Thou shalt not be a homophobe. Anything else is acceptable."
Being a middle-aged Caucasian male with libertarian leanings, I know I'd be wise to not comment on this matter. But McAllister offers some compelling points.
Free and open societies are supposed to talk freely and openly about common issues and ideas ---- but a fellow can be run out of town on a rail if he is on the "wrong" side of an issue or holds the "wrong" idea.
Too many of our universities, which were founded to foster free and open debate in the pursuit of truth, are now in the indoctrination business. Rather than teaching students how to think, too many are teaching them what to think.
Ironically, it is because of the politically correct groupthink that has infected our culture that Trump became the Republican nominee.
Time and again, during the primaries, he outmaneuvered the groupthink tactics that destroyed many Republicans before him. Many found Trump's anti-PC persona refreshing.
He's faltering in the general election, however, and one of the reasons is that lots of otherwise well-educated and thoughtful human beings see him as the devil incarnate at the same time they're able to look blindly beyond Hillary's peccadilloes.
So if you're a husband who plans to vote for Trump, you better lie about it ---- unless you want your wife to divorce you and move to Canada.
(If I survive, I may report back.)
Ah, taking the thinking out to the third dimension.Bravo my friend.
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That’s the best Haiku ever!
Or the good old days when women didn't vote and feminize their nation over time.
Why did the Founding Fathers thought that Women should not vote.... hehe no one can answer this..
Nobody saw me.
I didn’t do it.
That’s my story.
I’m stickin to it.
It’s never worked for me befor, but I figure it’s worth a try.
I’ve been in a loving relationship with the love of my life for 43 years, and early on we set some ground rules and decided we didn’t want any involvement of either the church or the state in our lives. And we have never once regretted that decision. Oh, and I’m a male and she’s a she.
If they are threatening to divorce their husbands if the they vote for Donald Trump.. Then they were just waiting for a reason to do so anyway. Marriage is meaningless to die hard communists.
Thanks for confirming...
What’s the ‘pickle’ reference Drudge is pushing? Any idea?
Or the good old days when women didn’t vote and feminize their nation over time.
In my view this feminizing of our culture has dangerously increased the likelihood that our enemies will eventually attack and defeat us with devastating force. I believe any nation that has a military which is heavily infiltrated and influenced by women and gays is doomed. Just a matter of time.
I say...GROW A PAIR!!! (Oops, if you husbands are so castrated that your wife is telling you to vote a criminal in office, you NEED to GROW A PAIR!!!)
I am having everybody I talk to about the election, shake my hand and promise not to vote for HRC! I did that to a die hard leftist, he shook my hand.
It really is a result of the feminists hijacking the ABA and the family courts in the 70s. They, backed by the Communist Party USA, decided that the fabric of the family had to be attacked first to throw the country into chaos.
I have worked very few cases where I have represented a man and thought, geez, this guy is cold blooded to his wife and family (a few, but not many).
On the other hand, when I was younger, I could easily be fooled by some sweet young lady telling me how horrible things were and that she wanted out. Only to later learn that she had been caught screwing around three times and ran up 125K in consumer debt behind his back. After I gave to the case to another colleague, I learned that she got the house, the kids, half of assets, and a nice alimony check that funded her bar hopping and sexual escapades for almost four years.
Doesn’t that make you proud to be an Amerikan?
Alternatively, don’t marry a lib.
My uncle is a conservative, my aunt loves Shillery, she brainwashed their daughter too.
At this point sharing your life with someone who wants the country to be destroyed.....does it matter what her (or his, for the ladies) other qualities are? Isn’t it irresponsible to give your kids a Marxist mother (or father)?
Yeah, given that it’s no longer where it may have been 50 years ago between spouses of different parties, today you’re talking about individuals with a vast gulf of moral, ethical and spiritual values between them. I couldn’t share my heart with someone so far removed from my belief system, let alone allow them to raise a child with that obscene, disordered and ungodly ideology.
Pretty much just setting yourself for a life of constant irritation, bickering, etc.
But you don’t want someone that agrees with EVERYTHING all the time, either.
There’s a balance to find, in life, in all things.
I’d rather be with a rabid Islamist than a liberal, if those were my two choices.
Why? Two reasons:
1. As perverse as it is, the Islamist has a belief in a god (lower case on purpose). The standard liberal has no belief in anything but “the state”.
2. The rabid Islamist would fight to the death; I can respect that more than the liberal t**t SOP of hiding behind bullshit decrees passed down by tyrannical judges.
don’t marry a lib?
I was planning on marryin’ an undocumented immigrant. is that a better plan? 1.96 is current ratio. Age ratio.
RE Libs:
Well, I have to hand it to them as far as fighting goes; of the two side in this country, they’re the only ones who ARE fighting.
And have been for decades. That’s why they’ve been winning.
We win an election, sit back and think “Gee things are SWELL, Fonz, ain’t they?” The other side is already plotting and scheming how to steal the NEXT election.
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