I hear you, and you have my sympathies. I just hope you understand that if you expect any president to improve your lot through protectionism, you'd be better off buying Powerball tickets. A trade war with China is more likely to result in 20% (or more) unemployment in this country.
BTW, I agree with you 100 percent on the abortion issue, and I also have my reservations regarding the sick perversion that is same-sex “marriage†- I’m a traditional pre-Vatican II Catholic, if that helps you to understand my cultural leanings.
Short of a Constitutional amendment, I doubt there is anything the next president can do to change the legality of same sex marriage in this country. What the next president can do is effect the way and the extent to which this newfound right is enforced.
For example, the next president has the opportunity to fight for the religious liberty of those that oppose same sex marriage, so they are not forced to bake cakes by gay crusaders who seek them out for revenge persecution. Again, I would not expect this to be near the top of Donald Trump's agenda list.
On the other hand, the first priority is and always must be ensuring that Hillary Clinton is never president. This is a woman who has said (among many other things, of course), that
"deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed [in the effort to gain further acceptance of pro-life causes]."
When she said this, I thought for sure "this is IT." This is the thing coming out of her mouth that will end her political career once and for all. It calls to mind a legal effort to outlaw religious views that abortion is murder.
As we know that did not happen, but I believe something along those lines is exactly what she has in store for us.
As a fellow Catholic, I say a prayer that you and your family will find the peace, love and security you deserve in the difficult months ahead.
“deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed [in the effort to gain further acceptance of pro-life causes].”
Did you not mean to write “further acceptance of pro-choice” causes in that quote?