It is so easy for you to say that when you're on the winning side. Now imagine it was 2008 and after George W. Bush destroyed the country, your only choice for a Democrat was an outed sexist but was otherwise progressive. Are you going to stay home? Why? Because you are so extreme in your convictions that you will not accept any victories if they come attached to someone you revile?
If the Democratic candidate for president was as overtly sexist as Donald Trump is overtly racist, I would vote Green, because it would be a betrayal of progressivism and intersectionality to explicitly give power and voice to such a position.
I think you are painting the most disingenuous dichotomy. What exactly is being empowered here? The enforcement of immigration laws that already exist? Not allowing Syrian refugees to come here because the vetting process is (arguably) flawed? Looking out for the wages and jobs of American citizens? If the racist devil gets elected, what horrible thing happens that makes you believe conservatives should absolutely not vote for him this election and miss out on finally passing some legislation, getting a conservative judge nominated, doing something about terrorism, and securing the border? What is it, pigeon?
I am not sure going through this list of policies with you is going to be productive, because you seem way too invested in making racism okay, so let's start somewhere else.
Anybody who says that most Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists should not be considered as a candidate for President. Or anything. Electing that guy is endorsing his view of Mexicans and of people of color, and just kind of taking on faith that that won't have terrible consequences for those people because somehow it won't happen. That is deeply immoral and selfish, but it's also super racist! So if you vote for Donald Trump you personally are a racist. I can make you a card and everything.
Because seriously impactful racist policies essentially won't happen. We have checks and balances in this country.
Kind of an important lesson of the Obama years is that we mostly don't, actually, because the executive branch is heavily empowered to act as it sees fit in the absence of clear and consistent action from the legislative branch.
You can't label 80% of the GOP voters as racists. Why can't you? Because it's not productive. If the word racist is so broad that it entails that many people, then it is no longer meaningful useful.
To be clear, I'm referring to 80% of the GOP primary voters, which is a much smaller group of people. But I still don't think this is an argument at all. Maybe America was literally built around racism and it was written into the constitution and it's taking a very long time to remove that element from our society, and lots and lots of Americans are still pretty racist because our whole society has institutional racism! That theory seems to mostly fit the facts!
Calm down, pigeon. Maybe you don't like me anymore but I still like you.
I am concerned about you. I'm not sure why you are so invested in justifying voting for a racist and explaining why it's not a big deal. None of the answers I can come up with are particularly good!
EDIT: We actually do have a sexist running for president right now: Bernie Sanders has a long history of writing despicable things about women. He was a grown man when he wrote those things, so there's no excuse. If Bernie Sanders somehow became the nominee, should you be so principled to sit the election out just because he said women fantasized about rape? I mean, your choice this election would be between a man who privately holds sexist views and a man who is indisputably racist? Are you sitting that one out to let the racist win?
I don't consider Bernie Sanders a sexist (I mean, except for the baseline level of sexism in our society), and I haven't seen any evidence that he is. The "women fantasize about rape" thing is basically a joke article given its utter lack of context, even though such context is actually available in the article, and I am actually disturbed yet again by your either disingenuous or surprisingly ignorant reference here. This is such a terrible comparison I can only hope you are embarrassed to have made it and won't mention it again.
