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.
You get it. Yes.
I’m not good at math.
“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? “
BUMP to the damm top!
Anyone who marries without knowing their potential spouse’s political leanings is a fool.
Our party is controlled by and led at the top by
MONEY WHORES.
They are NOT in the least conservative, they only care about money.
The D.C. left knows this, and buys them off.
Why America is in hell right now, folks.
The 1% bought them all off.
Too bad 98% of them were for sale.
Ted Kennedy has been sober for 7 years now.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy BDay to Seamus: https://youtu.be/eh9WayN7R-s
FRANK UNDERWOOD is her hit man.
“Ted Kennedy has been sober for 7 years now.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Remember how the Kennedy family got that M.I.T professor fired because he determined that it not only wasn’t high tide, but the lowest tide when Mary Jo Kopekne drowned? Well, the prof is still alive, and he BE talkin it up again....LOL
(rest easy Ted)
Ol Man Commieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Any day Ted Kennedy goes another day without taking a drink is a good day.
My response would have been,"What can I do to help you move?"
LOL
touche!
I don’t. That might have been before I was hatched. Chappaquiddick did for sure.
100%, anyone reading this would have done serious jail time if we had played the role of “Teddy”.
But do you remember the mother, Rose, was declared a FL resident (for estate tax purposes) when she died, even though she hadn’t been to FL the last 15+ years of her life?
Taxes? Those are only for the peons.
God, I despise that family...
That’s a perfect birthday song for Seamus.
Who loves ya Seamus?
+10
We understand.
RE Chappaquidic:
Pish posh... EVERYONE knows that reporting a death due to drunken driving is only for the “Little People” - you know, those stupid peons whom you need to keep voting for you over and over so your stockpile of Chivas Regal is maintained bounteously overflowing (”bounteously”??? Is that even a word?) and so that you never have to work a REAL job in your life???
You get it, Hale ; )
My friend, the Comey Affair, as it will come to be known, has proven to me that there are two sets of laws in this country - one for liberal elitist democrats, and one for everyone else.
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