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(83,505 posts)Proof. THATS why they love him. Because they want people who arent like them and dont look like them and dont think like them - to hurt.
To wish hurt upon someone. Upon someone you disagree with, or isnt just lockstep with them on their thinking and their worldview. And to vote for them FOR THAT REASON. To vote for that person because hes told you (or made you believe) that he will hurt the people you dont like.
Um - thats not why I want to vote for Joe Biden, or Elizabeth Warren, or Pete Buttigieg, or Steyer or Bloomberg or Klobuchar - so whoever gets the nomination will have the power to go hurt the people I dont like.
And full disclosure here - true enough. I dont like some of the people who follow trump. I dont like the racists, the jingoists, the sexists and misogynists, the people who would undo or roll back all the progress weve struggled over decades to achieve on behalf of what Scripture says Jesus called the least of these. I dont like those regressives OR what they stand for. And Ive certainly made that clear HERE.
But I do not wish harm upon them. Especially since many of them who would, or already DO, wish harm upon me.
I believe there is such a thing as karma.
And I dont wish harm on trump, either. But I do hope his own karma will catch up with him for all of those hes hurt, and insulted, and deceived, violated, and cheated, and lied to, and broken.
The one thing I DO wish on him is defeat in November. But then again, maybe thatll be his own karma starting to come back on him. Wishing justice to prevail upon the unjust? Thats not wishing harm or ill or evil on someone.
That said, there also is the Harry Truman quote in response to the famous exhortation give em hell, Harry! Hes quoted as replying: I give em the truth, and they think its hell.