Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Created
Mon, 21/10/2024 - 03:30
Updated
Mon, 21/10/2024 - 03:30
To follow up on Tom’s post below, Democracy is great and all but … damn: “Trump is obviously insane, and then Harris, I don’t think she has a plan,” said Clayton Ewing, a 63-year-old retiree from Shelby Township, Mich. who has voted for Trump in prior elections. Ewing said he may wait until he gets to the polls to make a final decision. Regina Gallacher, a 58-year-old physical therapist from Rochester Hills, Mich., said she is looking for a third party candidate because Trump “really scares me” but and she doesn’t “get warm fuzzies” when she hears Harris talk and found her replacement of President Biden on the ballot “very slimy.” Her husband, a union Democrat, is voting for Trump for the first time but they don’t talk about it at home because Gallacher, who grows repulsed when Trump appears on television, would rather avoid a heated conversation with her husband, who is unlikely to change his mind. If she has to choose between the two, it will be Harris, she said. But she is unsure. “We’ll get through it” if Trump wins, she said. “I just won’t be happy about it.” He started the conversation saying he would vote for Trump for the third time because he’s going to “stop the flood of people coming to this country.” “You know, I shouldn’t be saying that, because I am a foreigner,” said Fram, who moved from Jordan in 1981. He is angry about a recent break-in at his brother’s mansion…