I have come to understand more why people did. But going forward, with all that has happened and all we learned since, I do not see how anyone can.
But as you said, there is a hell of a difference between voting ones conscience and actively pushing for it then and especially pushing for more like it now.
Pushing for evil is evil. I long for the times when such a radical notion wasn’t radical at all.
To be honest, I’m beginning to think there’s nobody worth voting for. The system itself takes whatever “Play Dough” we send them and shapes it into a golden calf, or a Gollum. It’s the system itself that we need to fix. But I don’t know how to do it and fear that America has become Sodom and Gomorrah - so depraved that the men even try to rape angels that come to its gates. I fear that the majority of Americans are being given over to the hardness of their hearts and to depravity, just like the Romans. And America will fall from within just like Rome did.