My Turn: Don’t give a bad man another chance

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President Donald Trump looks at a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House, on June 1, 2020, in Washington.

President Donald Trump looks at a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House, on June 1, 2020, in Washington. AP FILE

By MARY REILLY PARSONS

Published: 10-24-2024 6:04 PM

 

It is beyond my comprehension why any one would vote for Donald Trump.

I have talked to a couple of pro-Trump people and both of them said they were better off financially under him. To them I say, think of your country, not of your pocketbooks. The rich, like himself, will get richer and the middle class will get poorer.

Women, how can you vote for him? He is a womanizer, a cheat, he puts ordinary women down whenever he wants. Have you listened to that tape how he referred to women? In my opinion, he is a male chauvinist. Woman are sex symbols to him. Is that the caliber of man you want governing you?

I recently saw an article by Catholics praising him. That is because he is supposedly anti-abortion. He waffles on that and is throwing it up to the states to decide. He already knows abortion is banned in many states. That way the blame is not on him. I do not believe in abortion, but if any Christian believes he is concerned about those babies, they are deluding themselves. All he sees is votes behind those dead babies.

How Christian-acting is he with his description of immigrants, saying they have poor genes and threatens to send them all back? Sounds to me like something Hitler would have said about the Jews. Many Catholic religious groups are on the border helping these people. Does he remember or even know the great Second Commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself?” These religious groups do.

Trump is a convicted felon who will have more charges brought as a civilian. If president, he will release all the Jan. 6 persons convicted of crimes. They were doing what he wanted, but who are paying the price, not Mr. Trump. He threatens to punish people who have spoken against him. That’s what they do in dictatorships like Russia and North Korea.

He doesn’t want to be a president, he wants to be a dictator. It will be the law according to Donald Trump, not our Constitution. Unfortunately some people are afraid of him and will do as he says. He takes no advice from anyone. Jan. 6 is a prime example of that, as against advice he waited a long time to call an end to the Capitol riot and even praised the lawbreakers.

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Some of the lies that come out the mouths of him and followers are unbelievable. More unbelievable is that too many voters believe them. I believe he has deep mental problems. Just look at how he acts and what he says at his rallies. Again he doesn’t take advice from his advisers, his way or no way. He is mentally incompetent to be president.

He threatens to punish companies, states and countries that have not done what he wants or in any way criticized him.

If, God forbid, he is elected again, we will have another revolution to restore our laws and rights.

Please God, save the country from Donald Trump.

Mary Reilly Parsons lives in Colrain.