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Originally posted by: alanleroyIIQuote
Originally posted by: malibber2
I like Alan. I really do, so I mean this as a sincere compliment. I have never met anyone better at using false equivalency in a debate.
Is it really false equivalency or just holding voters to their alleged principles. I don't know how you of all people can vote for Hillary either. I know. It's because you hate Trump. As long as we keep selling out to these Crony Capitalist Globalists, there's never going to be a real choice.
False equivalency is a rhetorical device that can be used to try a pin an opponent to their principals. Like I said, it is a compliment. What makes your use of it so good, is your ability to use subtlety to make your point. Frankly, being subtle is something I am not very good at it.
To your point as to how I can vote for Hillary, it looked like it was going to be hard at the beginning of the election season. I don't think she is a crook or a serial liar as the right-wingers have painted her, but I have always seen her as sort of a Democratic version of Mitt Romney. That is someone that is so far removed from the average everyday American experience that they can't comprehend it.
What turned me into an enthusiastic Hillary supporter? Donald Trump. In my mind, there has never been a major party candidate less suited to hold the office of President. He often says racist and misogynistic things, and you know that they aren't one time gaffs or that he is simply someone that is old school. He repeats these types of things over and over again and says them with conviction.
Then there is the gleeful admission that he likes to grab any woman he finds attractive by her pussy. That he liked to walk in on pageant contestants while they were naked. Now women have come forward and said Donald did indeed kiss them without their consent or grab them by their pussies. Women (some as young as 15 at the time ) that were in his pageants said he walked in on them while they were dressing.
His response has been bizarre. He claims the women are too ugly for him to have groped, and it is all a giant conspiracy by international bankers (alt-right code for Jews), Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, Hillary and Paul Ryan.
Honestly, I can't see how anybody that professes to care about this country could not vote for Hillary this election regardless if they like her or not. The alternative is literally putting a madman in charge of the country.