{"id":6596,"date":"2016-03-12T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/12\/robert-royal-opts-for-abstention\/"},"modified":"2016-03-12T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T04:55:13","slug":"robert-royal-opts-for-abstention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/12\/robert-royal-opts-for-abstention\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump versus Hillary: Abstain or Take a Stand?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Royal, writing<\/a> in The Catholic Thing<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats advance a woman, a serial liar, a self-proclaimed feminist who trashed multiple women for political gain, an ideological ambulance chaser who will follow votes anywhere, who compromised state secrets and amassed a fortune while serving in the Cabinet, partly through suspect dealings with donors in foreign nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans, fed up with their flaccid leaders, advance a man whose whole life speaks: no fixed principles, crony capitalism, megalomania, religious hypocrisy, authoritarianism, bullying, innocence of the Constitution and the simplest functioning of our government (he thinks judges signs bills) \u2013 and no political experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I won\u2019t indulge in a categorical judgment for now: that would be to give in to the very passions of the moment that I find mortally dangerous. But if things continue as they are . . . I\u2019m thinking it\u2019s best if I simply don\u2019t vote for president. Or write in someone sane, and not wholly on the make.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While I respect Royal's position, I say one must take a stand.  Granted, both candidates are very bad, and for the reasons Royal cites in addition to others.  But Hillary is worse.  For conservatives to abstain because of Trump's manifest negatives is folly.  But why is Hillary worse than Trump?
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Hillary is Obama in a pant suit.  She will continue his "fundamental transformation of America." Like Obama, she is a destructive leftist.  She must be stopped. Therefore, conservatives must vote for the Republican nominee whoever it is.  <\/span><\/p>\n

To spell it out a bit:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. Trump might appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court. But we KNOW that Hillary won't.  This reason by itself ought to incline you to take a stand against the leftist candidate.  I don't need to explain to my astute readers how important the composition of SCOTUS is.  The composition of SCOTUS 'trumps' in long-term importance the identity of POTUS, if you will excuse the pun (and even if you won't.)<\/span><\/p>\n

B. It is a very good bet that Trump will put a severe dent in the influx of illegal aliens across the southern border.  (Forget his bluster about making Mexico pay for the wall.)  But we KNOW that  Hillary will do nothing to stem the illegal tide.  If anything she'll encourage it because in her cynical eyes they are 'undocumented Democrats.'  The strategy of the Left is to alter the demographics of the USA in such a way that conservatives are permanently rendered politically ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n

C. A third thing Trump might very well do is stop the outrage of sanctuary cities.  But we KNOW Hillary won't. By the way, what do sanctuary cities provide sanctuary from?  The rule of law. <\/span><\/p>\n

D. A fourth thing Trump can be expected to do is enforce civil order and free speech rights in the face of such  disorderly  elements  as the members of Black Lives Matter.   These liars have targeted the police and are actively working to undermine the rule of law.  They disrupt speakers.  One even disrupted a speech by Bernie Sanders! Hillary is in bed with them. She repeats all the leftist lies about Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, 'mass incarceration,' 'white privilege,' and so on.  And what is most despicable is that she does it cynically for her own personal advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n

E.  A fifth thing Trump might do is defend religious liberties.  We KNOW that Hillary won't.  Never forget that the Left is anti-religion and has been since 1789.   Part of the reason for this is that the Left is totalitarian: it can brook no competitors to State power.  This is why it must destroy belief in God and in the family.  The god of the leftist is the State, the apparatchiki<\/em> of the latter being the State's 'priesthood.'<\/span><\/p>\n

F.  A sixth thing Trump might do is defend Second Amendment rights.  We KNOW that Hillary won't.  She is a mendacious 'stealth ideologue' who won't admit that she is for Aussie-style confiscation, but that is what the liberty-basher and Constitution-trasher is for.  She realizes that guns in the hands of citizens are a check on her leftist totalitarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Add these reasons together and you have a strong cumulative-case argument for the preferrability of Trump over Hillary.  There are other reasons I haven't mentioned.
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Here is the situation.  If it comes down to Trump versus Hillary, then you face a lousy choice between two awful candidates.  So you must vote for the least awful of the two.  And that is Trump.  Alles klar?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

"But why not vote for neither?"<\/span><\/p>\n

The short answer is that the Left is totalitarian.  You can't withdraw from politics, because they won't let you.  And again, we know that Hillary is a leftist who will try to extend the reach of government into every aspect of our lives.  You must take a stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

You must realize that politics is a practical business.  It always involves concrete choices among or between sub-optimal candidates.  If you refuse to vote, you willy-nilly lend support to Hillary and her ilk and her agenda.  You are a fool if you let the best become the enemy of the good, or in the present situation, the good become the enemy of the least bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert Royal, writing in The Catholic Thing: Democrats advance a woman, a serial liar, a self-proclaimed feminist who trashed multiple women for political gain, an ideological ambulance chaser who will follow votes anywhere, who compromised state secrets and amassed a fortune while serving in the Cabinet, partly through suspect dealings with donors in foreign nations. … Continue reading “Trump versus Hillary: Abstain or Take a Stand?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}