tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762930168389949250.post1116735301585754812..comments2016-11-21T13:29:48.799-05:00Comments on Triple The Dad: How You Explain Trump To Your DaughterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14674338920277176353noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762930168389949250.post-21146588937829370752016-11-21T13:29:48.799-05:002016-11-21T13:29:48.799-05:00I wonder too, if as a frequent third-party voter w...I wonder too, if as a frequent third-party voter who is often faced with two candidates who will do things I find to repugnant, or at the very least to be bad policy, if I'm not somewhat insulated.<br /><br />If your choice is racist Trump and his awful policies or not racist Hillary Clinton and her love all things good, her loss stings. If your choice is racist Trump and his awful policies or less awful Hillary Clinton and her different set of awful policies, maybe the loss is more like every other day.Triplethedadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03100297654782210578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762930168389949250.post-34305658845062966392016-11-21T09:30:25.880-05:002016-11-21T09:30:25.880-05:00I'm going to say that everything I type below,...I'm going to say that everything I type below, and everything in the original post, includes my knowledge that most of the worst of what Trump said doesn't apply to me. It would be easy as a hetero white male to brush off misogyny, sexism, and racism. I get that.<br /><br />I hope my post didn't appear to reject individual concerns. I get that some individuals are scared. Probably rightfully so. <br /><br />I was shocked at the result. I went to bed a little uneasy and woke with a pit in my stomach. <br /><br />Maybe it didn't come across, but the post was aimed more at the "end of our country" and "end of our democracy" panic crowd. That was part of the whole line about: "If you think the country or life is over because we elected Trump Tuesday, then you really don't believe in that system, you believe in the cult of personality of the presidency.<br /><br />You fight the policies as they come. <br /><br />Clinton wasn't an angelic figure, she was a human who has also done and said awful things. Trump has said worse things, its true. But you fight the individual policy and individual actions. Trump has been pro-gay rights longer than Hillary Clinton, for instance. I get that there are like probably 100 reasons why it was easier for Trump than Clinton, and that Clinton may have been hiding her true preference all those years, but the fact remains. People get all worked up over Trump's wall like we don't already have a wall that Hillary voted for. Trump wanting a bigger wall isn't a big deal to me (his idiotic and racist comments about the need for a wall aside). <br /><br />I guess that was what I was saying when I said "move on." Lets focus on the battles before us, not that some less-worse-in-some-ways candidate lost.<br />Triplethedadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03100297654782210578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762930168389949250.post-29434888506019859342016-11-20T10:12:38.873-05:002016-11-20T10:12:38.873-05:00**It should say "Japanese Americans / America...**It should say "Japanese Americans / Americans of Japanese descent" rather than Japanese**Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03968117352606424164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4762930168389949250.post-5070204632865092852016-11-20T10:11:12.869-05:002016-11-20T10:11:12.869-05:00"But we have had awful people do awful things..."But we have had awful people do awful things as president before and survived."<br /><br />Yes, the country as a whole has survived. However, it could also be said that Germany survived having Hitler as a ruler and the Japanese survived being put in "internment" camps during WWII. Except for all the people who didn't survive that. And the families that were broken up and the lives that were horribly disrupted by being taken from their homes to be put into camps.<br /><br />But I'm sure Muslims don't have anything to worry about, even if the registry previous broke up families by only sending males home. <br />http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/16/13649764/trump-muslim-register-database<br /><br />But I suppose your daughter doesn't have to worry about that. And yes, the US will likely survive it. And yes, it might not be as bad as it seems from this side of history. And yes, the government has a system of checks and balances to keep terrible things from happening. But unfortunately as the Japanese internment camps shows, sometimes they happen anyway. (I won't even touch EVERYTHING involving the native people.)<br /><br />Maybe it'll be good to have all of this out in the open and shoved into the light, but I think simply saying "we'll survive" makes it too easy to turn a blind eye on the bad things that can happen. Although obviously this isn't something you'd bring up to your wee one, I just voice caution in spreading the mentality of "it's going to be fine, we've always survived so far" too much.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03968117352606424164noreply@blogger.com