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There is no question that a large segment of American society rightfully feels forgotten and manipulated by the so-called Ruling Class. Their anger and frustration is justified. However, it is morally wrong and unethical to play upon those sentiments and thus manipulate his followers while he offers only platitudes and vague assurances that he will make America great again. This strategy is a clear indicator that his quest for the presidency is solely a matter of self-aggrandizement.
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Donald Trump is not a conservative. He is in reality, per his own pronouncements, a Progressive at home with populist rhetoric. He never discusses the Constitution or limiting the leviathan that is the federal government, which is choking the life out of this nation. Rather he intends to make government work “better” as he expands the imperial presidency begun by Barack Obama. His economic policies of high tariffs, quasi-central planning and expanded social spending will further cripple the nation and continue the downward spiral in the standard of living for all, but a select few, Americans.
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Today the president of the United States wields enormous power. Whether it is the IRS, the EPA, the NSA, the Justice Department or an alphabet soup of other agencies, the government has grown tentacles that can smother any American at any time. Donald Trump has openly declared war on First Amendment freedom of the speech and has spent much of his adult life terrorizing others he considered disloyal or insufficiently acquiescent by either physical threats or unleashing the legal system as a machine of intimidation. If president, what would he do with so much power at his disposal?
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It now appears that 2016 will be another sequel as a plurality of primary voters, the elites of both parties and the media may well foist a near clinical narcissist, Donald Trump, and a pathological liar, Hillary Clinton, on the electorate. If I must face that Hobson’s choice, I will not vote in the presidential contest focusing instead on congressional and down ballot candidates.
I cannot vote for someone that strikes fear in my heart. I cannot, with my vote, place the fate of this nation and generations yet unborn in the hands of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. My conscience, forged in the rubble of World War II, will not allow me to do so.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/why_i_cannot_vote_for_donald_trump_or_hillary_clinton.html
March 21, 2016
Why I Cannot Vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton
By Steve McCann
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