US Election & Presidency

I'm not exactly sure what is supposed to be irrational about hating a man who is a racist, misogynist who has been accused of sexual assault by many woman and caught bragging about assaulting woman on tape?

You say we do not have the right to demonise him, we do not demonise him we criticise him for his demonization of other people. He has had to settle many lawsuits over his unfair eviction of African Americans, called for the Central Park Five to receive the death penalty even after they were found innocent, remarked that he would not want a black person counting his money, called Mexicans criminals and rapists and called for a shutdown of Muslims entering the country. Where are these people's right not to be demonized ?

Elected fair and square? Check the popular vote, yes he won the electoral college but it operates on a winner takes all system, all the candidate has to do is win a majority of votes in that state and they receive all of the college votes for that state even. So Trump wins a state with 20 votes with a 50% share, Clinton 45%, 5% other, he receives 20 votes instead of 10 if you are a Democrat in a Red State and vice versa a Republican in a blue state your vote counts for nothing. Can you please explain to me why a winner takes all system that delivers a candidate with 3 million fewer votes to victory is fair?

Finally his comments are not just crude, vulgar and offensive but they are dangerous. Time and again he has tried to undermine the free press, an integral part of a democratic society, calling them Fake News and even a threat to their free society. He has specifically targeted CNN, he posted a video of him attacking Vince McMahon in the WWE with the CNN logo on his face, he did the same thing with an image of someone being run over, and him stamping on the CNN logo. In his fake news awards he called them the worst of the worst.

Last week police in Michigan arrested a man for making numerous calls to CNN headquarters in Atlanta Georgia and threatening to kill them. He said "I am coming to gun you all down. Fuck you, you fucking n****rs", "I am coming for you CNN. I'm smarter than you. More powerful than you. I have more guns than you. More man power. Your cast is about to get gunned down" and "Fake news I am coming to gun you down". Gee I wonder where he got that last one from

Now perhaps in this country this might seem like idle threats but in a country where there is over 30 million guns and minimal background checks leading to a mass shooting every day. This is deadly serious, pun intended. Right wingers whenever there is a shooting want to take focus off guns and onto mental health, well lets talk about mental health. How do you think a person who has ill mental health would react to the type of propaganda put out by Trump over fake news and its threat to democracy? And what might happen if a person of ill mental health has access to an assault rifle because he can so easily obtain one and is shown images of the President of the United States supporting the attacking of a news outlet?

We don't need to imagine, it happened in this country. The Right wing media's constant fear mongering over immigrants coming to this country and living in social housing led to the murder of Jo Cox by the terrorist Thomas Mair as he feared the loss of his council house to immigrants and so took his fear out on his pro-EU and therefore pro freedom of movement and pro immigrant MP. It's only a matter of time before it happens in the United States

So please tell me what is so irrational about hating this man? When a President of the United states shows so much disregard for his own citizens that he freely and willfully endangers his lives by perpetuating fear that may effect vulnerable people I say

FUCK BALANCE