Say it with me: President. Trump.
It appears that Mr. Trump gets a promotion based on the all-but-final results (pending are MI and PA which he is leading in with most of the votes counted).
Do you think Hillary will concede tonight?
Do you think Hillary will concede tonight?
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In 1968, Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden led the progressives protest of the Vietnam War. Their protests involved supporting third-party candidates.
They promoted the Negative Voting Myth to get their third-party votes.
They did not realize the Negative Voting Myth does not win elections. It pulls votes from the “lesser evil” and helps elect the “greater evil.”
Unless they wake up, these Myth Keepers may to the same thing the progressives did to Al Gore. If they refuse to vote for Donald Trump, they may be responsible for electing Hillary Clinton.
Aristotle’s Positive Voting Principle
Aristotle proposed the Positive Voting Principle to replace the Negative Voting Myth. Yes, the Negative Voting Myth existed in the days of Aristotle.
Aristotle (320 BC) wrote:
In the case of evil, the reverse is the case, since the lesser evil is counted as a good in comparison with the greater evil; the lesser evil is more worthy of choice than the greater, what is worthy of choice is a good, and what is more worthy of choice is a greater good.
In modern terms, Aristotle’s Positive Voting Principle is:
Our moral duty is to vote to achieve the most possible good, which eliminates voting for candidates who cannot win, and eliminates mandatory conditions.
Stated simply, the Positive Voting Principle is:
Always vote and act to achieve the greatest possible good.
All major Christian Religions support the Positive Voting Principle
Historically, all moral philosophers and all major Christian religions support the Positive Voting Principle.
Aquinas wrote our moral duty is to achieve as much good as possible from every situation, including our vote. He says we cannot achieve good by acting on something that is impossible, like voting for a third-party candidate
Church Summary on Positive Voting Principle
A Methodist minister quoted Apostle Paul wrote, “Don’t be defeated by evil, but defeat evil with good. All major Christian churches tell us to vote and to use the Positive Voting Principle:
Our moral duty is to vote to achieve the most possible good, which eliminates voting for candidates who cannot win, and eliminates mandatory conditions.
Only some far-right Evangelicals and Mormons support the Negative Voting Myth.
The Positive Voting Principle forbids Mandatory Conditions.
Mandatory conditions are immoral because they can eliminate from consideration the candidate who may be the greater good
Some pastors proudly tell their flock a candidate must meet certain “mandatory” conditions to get their vote. Their mandatory conditions reveal they do not understand morality, logic, or the teachings of all major Christian religions and philosophers.
Don’t be a Myth Keeper
Let’s explain the Negative Voting Myth this way:
Suppose you get to vote for Candidate A, whose abortion policies will kill 10 million babies, or Candidate B, whose policies will kill 1 million babies. Who will you vote for?
All normal Christians will vote for Candidate B so they can save 9 million babies.
Myth Keepers won’t vote for either candidate because they don’t care about saving 9 million babies. They care about their “conscience” and “principles. Some promote the Negative Voting Myth. Their myth would kill 9 million babies.
Reject the Negative Voting Myth and reject all groups that promote it.
How to vote right
Before we can make a good decision, we must define the key question.
The Key Question of the 2016 presidential election is:
Will Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton better serve America as President?
A subset of the Key Question is:
Will Donald Trump’s 3 to 5 Supreme Court justices better serve America than Hillary Clinton’s choice of Supreme Court justices?
The Key Question is NOT:
• Is Donald Trump perfect enough for me?
• Will I violate my principles if I vote for Donald Trump?
• Do I like Donald Trump?
When we choose a President, we should not be concerned about “likes.” We should be concerned only about who will do the best job for America.
Conclusion
First, define and answer the key question:
Will Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton better serve America as President?
Second, follow the Positive Voting Principle:
Our moral duty is to vote to achieve the most possible good, which eliminates voting for candidates who cannot win, and eliminates mandatory conditions.
We are now living almost the eight years of damage that this regime has inflicted to the systems we believed could not be corrupted. And it isn't going well.
Yesterday was much better than the alternative described by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants", and in my opinion we were quickly heading to that point.
I say the "wall" is a symbolic thing. I think Trump will tighten up the border to eliminate illegal immigration.
I dont know about government spending at all.
As would all accept, there are no perfect candidates, and those who cloak themselves to be such are people who do not deserve the votes they are asking us for.
After almost eight years of darkness, I now see light.
Did feel even better (why it's in first place) about the video with Godzilla sending a three-headed monstrosity off in total defeat.
I first saw that silly Godzilla movie as a (drafted) Marine at an air base called Cherry Point, NC, with a guy named Thacker (also drafted).
When Godzilla did that dance, Thacker screamed with laughter and all but slid out of his theater seat.
And if Trump was Wesley Mouch. Clinton is Mouch on super steroids. She would have continued the policies of Obama (which have doubled our national debt in 8 years) and try to add free college education and debt forgiveness for current students to the list. She would have put a progressive Justice on the Supreme Court to destroy the Constitution like all progressives have been trying now for over a century. So while Trump is a bad candidate, Hillary is orders of magnitude worse.
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