In this article called I’m wielding my electoral power of 40 Texas Republicans to vote for a man I hate
written by Rachel Manteuffel in The Washington Post she talks about how she
will be voting for a man that she does not like. This might not make sense to
many people but it will in a bit. Rachel goes on to say in her article that, “Moral
authorities such as Mitt Romney… have declared it the duty of Republicans to
stop Trump”.
Rachel is claiming that by casting your vote for someone else other than trump than that will be better, even if it is someone that you do not like or approve of. She continues to say, “I don’t want the rest of the world to watch us get so close to electing a boorish xenophobe sexist who doesn’t seem to care what he’s actually saying… as long as the crowd roars in delight.” I would have to completely agree with the author Rachel Manteuffel.
We are coming so close to
having the Republican Party back up a candidate who has brought out the truly
bad side of everyone, supporter or not. This article makes sense because in an
article I had read before it was speaking about how Marco Rubio’s campaign was
urging support for Kasich in Ohio. This means that between Republicans they are
trying to flush out someone who knows that would bring shame to its party. We
cannot be letting this happen, we can’t let our fears and phobias get in the
way to see clearly. Yes we might not all agree on who to vote for but what we
should agree on is that we can’t possibly let someone who has divided us more
than ever be President. The day that we are divided as a nation is the day that
we are most vulnerable. Our country is called United States of America, ‘United’,
for a reason because we know what is beneficially and we know what is
destructive to our Great Nation.
While I see where you’re coming from with your perspective, Eddy, I must respectfully disagree. Manteuffel is suggesting that retracting her potential vote for a candidate she truly believes in will prevent Donald Trump from gaining the votes he needs to win the nomination.
ReplyDeleteHow does this make sense? Imagine I am an avid Bernie Sanders supporter, and I see that Donald Trump is leading the Republican party by a lot. In this situation, should I do anything that I can to stop him from winning the nomination -- which, by the way, is entirely inevitable at this point -- and give another Republican my vote? Or would it perhaps be a better option to ignore the stigma that “Democrats don’t stand a chance” and actually cast a vote for a person I believe in?
It is not only naive to believe that a singular vote in most parts in the United States will sway the nomination far enough from Trump, but nonsensical to vote for a candidate one does not believe in. “Vote for someone you despise” is a dangerous idea to experiment with, and it would be safer to vote for someone whose politics you stand behind. Tim Shea suggests that the two-party system the States are so insistent upon enforcing in a less-than-democratic manner is convoluted. Democracy is no good if its people do not take advantage of their right to vote for whom they choose.
(1) http://libertyhangout.org/2016/02/the-only-wasted-vote-is-for-the-candidate-you-dont-believe-in/
(2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-wielding-my-electoral-power-of-40-texas-republicans-to-vote-for-a-man-i-hate/2016/03/11/ca9d236a-e704-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory