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.
Ah geez, that dentist should let her go be a Canadian government paid doctor and trade up to a young conservative model
If you’re talking politics with your wife you’ve surely skipped over a bunch of topics that are not only more interesting but more likely to get you laid. Rewind that tape, enjoy the marriage.
I’ve been happily married for over 18 years now.
Young men DON’T GET MARRIED!
I’ll say it again.
DON’T GET MARRIED!
The entire legal system is designed to completely destroy your life once you get married.
Marriage 1.0 was a union of two people that worked together for shared goals. (I have this type of marriage)
Marriage 2.0 is slavery.
Is that Drudge's big thing? That Hillary's wearing a catheter?
I'd avoid giving their site a hit, but I wonder how the tone of the article would differ if these were people threatening to divorce their spouses who intend to vote for Hillary Clinton.
My view: Politics is so closely tied in now with VALUES or perception of values. We seem to try to select candidates whose values most reflect our own. Because of that, it seems like a marriage with huge disagreements related to politics might also have vast disparities in their values/beliefs. IMHO
Exactly..............
Not married and no plans to do so. She goes left and I go right. But hey, the truth is... she likes to fish, loves the beach, drinks rum, she’s got a hot little figure and is simply amazing between the sheets.
Rape is not a “dalliance.”
Journalists never let up in their attempts to shade things in favor of the Clintons.
And probably half of the 31% of those divorces that the men initiated was probably the result of the women being a total bitch until the men cry uncle and divorces her like she secretly wanted, but doesn't want to be the initiator, and then puts on a act like "wow I never saw it coming" innocent act.
A dentist? MSM tells me all Trump supporters were uneducated, out of work bubbas.
I would imagine there are an equal number of men threateing to divorce their wives if the latter vote for Hillary Clinton. And there are women who’ll hit the road if Mister votes Hillary and men who will high-tail it if the wife votes Trump.
So why would this schmuck single out only the female-anti-Trump permutation?
This article is propaganda.
Any woman who demands I vote for a corrupt, lesbian, murderer is not a woman worth having.
We all know that.
Getting married now days is subjugating yourself to your (a) wife and (b) court system.
The woman has you by the balls. If you don’t give her everything she wants, when she wants, she runs to the court and divorces you. She gets half of everything and nice check from you to sustain her lifestyle. It’s a win-win for her.
Exactly.
Did she threaten to divorce him and move to Canada, or was that a promise?
If she did it would improve the collective IQ of both countries.
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