This is the most important election of my life because I'm autistic

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EzraS
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18 Sep 2016, 11:12 am

I'm glad I'm not old enough to vote



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18 Sep 2016, 12:56 pm

I'm going to break some unwritten rules, here, involving gold digging and identity politics. I know dignitaries would never do such a demeaning thing. But, what is either respective party offering you as an aspie or hyphenated American. What is your industry, special interest, or social cause, and how is it impacted, directly by the election results.

I'm hearing alot of emotionality but no objectivity, am personally, not a respecter of persons.

I think of a colorful, homeless person, who said he was the king of a place, and a mythical Chinese god, dressed as a poor person.

How will these personalities affect your reality, by substance or style?



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18 Sep 2016, 8:44 pm

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I'm trying to support people who keep getting killed by insane politicians. Your vote in the US has lots of impact on the rest of the world, as the US is such a superpower. Voting Clinton in will cost more people their lives across the world.

and Trump will somehow be any better? this is our system, like it or not [I HATE IT], it amounts to a choice between The Rump and Billary, voting for a third party just boosts one or the other main candidate.



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19 Sep 2016, 10:51 am

"In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power.

The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative."

Malcom X, 1963 speech

Malcom noted at the time, that 100 years after the Civil War, essentially nothing had changed. That the people making the promises wanted nothing more then the votes, and only made token gestures, installed token puppets. Btw, 50 years further on, it seems exactly the same.

As a much much smaller and barely significant minority, I don't put much stock in anything political types say.



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19 Sep 2016, 2:42 pm

auntblabby wrote:
JohnPowell wrote:
I'm trying to support people who keep getting killed by insane politicians. Your vote in the US has lots of impact on the rest of the world, as the US is such a superpower. Voting Clinton in will cost more people their lives across the world.

and Trump will somehow be any better? this is our system, like it or not [I HATE IT], it amounts to a choice between The Rump and Billary, voting for a third party just boosts one or the other main candidate.


Just on Syria he is better, so saving those lives and the country by fighting ISIS rather than Assad is more than enough of a reason to choose Trump. Hilary also seems like she might want to attack Iran.


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19 Sep 2016, 11:58 pm

EzraS wrote:
I'm glad I'm not old enough to vote


I'm just glad there's no rule/law that says you have to vote when you ARE old enough.

I swear, I often feel like I'm the only one that has absolutely zero desire to A: participate in any of this, or B: even learn about it much. All that ever happens in politics is that everyone argues a whole bunch, which is followed by the politicians (regardless of who they are) doing something dumb, followed by.... nothing getting accomplished. And then back to arguing.

My parents are really into the whole thing, much to my annoyance (thus I end up knowing more about it than I want anyway). Nowadays I leave the house the moment it starts up. They have yet to take the hint. As soon as it's time, they'll make a point of repeating, for a couple of weeks beforehand, how I need to make sure to come vote! It's so important! Come that day, I may or may not just happen to sleep in for 5 hours more than normal. Oops, dropped the TV on the alarm clock, cant participate in politics, oh darn....



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20 Sep 2016, 4:33 am

TomS wrote:
"In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power. The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative."
Malcom X, 1963 speech
Malcom noted at the time, that 100 years after the Civil War, essentially nothing had changed. That the people making the promises wanted nothing more then the votes, and only made token gestures, installed token puppets. Btw, 50 years further on, it seems exactly the same. As a much much smaller and barely significant minority, I don't put much stock in anything political types say.


sounds like we as a nation are hardly anything more than a hopeless bunch of scorpions in a bottle.



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25 Sep 2016, 8:07 am

As an independent voter, I support Donald Trump all the way to presidential-elect. I wrote him several letters of support and advice in the past year. I have supported him since day one.

Sorry, Alex, you're way off with your support for the Democratic Party ticket. DNC and Mr. Obama ruined America and that's enough.



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27 Sep 2016, 12:21 pm

An interesting article, Alex. I'm not particularly attached to Hillary Clinton, but if you know yourself well enough to understand when someone is jerking your chain, Trump simply is not an option. Even in his most serious moments, he come across like a cartoon character doing an impression of a real person. It's easy to see he has no respect for disabled people, women, nonwhites, or anyone who isn't just like him. If elected, he would be a disgrace to the republic and likely impeached before the end of his first term. And since I actually care about having a leader who knows what they're doing and won't turn the country into a global laughingstock, yeah, I'm voting Clinton.


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27 Sep 2016, 1:27 pm

when The Rump gets elected and proceeds to make a shambles of our nation, the people who supported him will still blame everybody else.



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27 Sep 2016, 3:44 pm

Evil_Chuck wrote:
An interesting article, Alex. I'm not particularly attached to Hillary Clinton, but if you know yourself well enough to understand when someone is jerking your chain, Trump simply is not an option. Even in his most serious moments, he come across like a cartoon character doing an impression of a real person. It's easy to see he has no respect for disabled people, women, nonwhites, or anyone who isn't just like him. If elected, he would be a disgrace to the republic and likely impeached before the end of his first term. And since I actually care about having a leader who knows what they're doing and won't turn the country into a global laughingstock, yeah, I'm voting Clinton.


Clinton knows what she's doing? OK, maybe she does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMnjU1z3b4


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27 Sep 2016, 3:50 pm

I guess the difference with Clinton is that she doesn't mind so much who she discriminates against, or kills more like. She'll just have anyone blown up. Though she seems to have a lot of hatred for Arabs/Muslims. She's voted for every war and the sanctions she helped put on Iraq killed 500,000 children. But ya know, Trumps doesn't like 'diversity'....


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02 Oct 2016, 4:42 am

That's why I'm a democrat.



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02 Oct 2016, 4:44 am

^^^mee too :mrgreen: hiya Sophia :) welcome to WP 8)



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03 Oct 2016, 2:10 pm

So's Obama the mass murderer.


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08 Oct 2016, 5:20 pm

I was a Bernie Sanders supporter. Now I am switching to Jill Stein. I don't believe either one will represent people with disabilities as both are very greedy, self centered and apathetic. I don't trust Hillary and Trump is her friend so this election scares me for our future. The election fraud the DNC committed has destroyed our chance of a real revolution and left us with no real choices. This election is an insult to my intelligence and I will not be bullied into voting for a candidate who set up her opponent just to make herself look like a more viable option. I don't know what we are going to do at this point. Its going to be a rocky road when we have two Republicans running for office.