Yet if Clinton were to call him a "digusting pig of a man", literally everyone would be incredibly embarassed/outraged (outside of a few of the truly radical feminists). The hypocrisy of the right in full force
Can't agree here. Not anymore.
For better or worse, anything goes. There's no pretense of folks wanting a high-minded campaign these days. It's all about mud-slinging.
Given the negativity folks feel for both candidates (there's no winner here, only a person who's "less worse") this shouldn't surprise anyone.
Ehhh. The difference is that acting like that is part of Trump's brand/appeal to his supporters. As hostile as this race is, Clinton is not really using coarseness as an appeal -- just relatively mild negativity.
It's kind of like someone at a party dropped trou and started trying to fight with everyone, and when someone in the crowd started saying "that's disgusting and inappropriate," your response is "GLOVES OFF! MUDSLINGING EVERYWHERE!!!"
One of the themes of this year's campaign is the fact that lots of working folks who have played by the rules have been screwed over by folks who have good manners and speak with clean language. Couth had, it seems, become license to give folks the shaft. The folks who told the Carrier workers in IN that their jobs were going to Mexico were polite and mannerly; they didn't give the finger or drop F-bombs. They just told a slew of hard working Americans that $6 Billion dollars in earnings wasn't enough, and they were moving their operations to Monterrey, Mexico. Nice.
Another theme of this year's campaign is that it seems that the majority no longer rules. Folks are told by other folks, and backed up by Courts that they can't pray at high school football games; that they have to pay for birth control for their employee's healthcare program (since overturned), that they must bake cakes for same-sex weddings regardless of their own religious beliefs, and knowing that if someone refused to bake a cake for a Trump reception, that would likely be OK. They are faced with politicians who want to limit their right to keep firearms, and on this issue, there are those who won't stop until the entire population is disarmed. They live in a world where the majority (it seems) can't rule when it's THEIR priorities, but minority rights don't matter when THEY'RE in the minority. It's not an entirely accurate worldview, but it's how lots of folks view their world in America, and it's happening more often than not.
And they're being lectured to by a serial liar who actively works to silence and discredit her husband's accusers of sexual assault. By a person who has lied under oath, and was the first Presidential candidate to be under active FBI investigation while becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. Nice.
So whenever Hillary Clinton is lecturing America about how to act, my response is, "Who died and left you boss?". Of course, I may wake up to find out that the answer to that question is "Forty-seven people who died of Natural Causes, that's who." But enough out of me.
