What Kind Of Person Are You?

What kind of person are you?

If you say you’re not a racist or homophobic, would you hang out with people who are? Would you just sit by and listen to them say racist stuff, and talk about how other races are inferior or support genocide? Would you be fine with them talking about how gay or trans people are an affront to God, or disgusting and amoral, or advocate denying them their rights? Would you be okay with people you call friends if they were advocating violence against people based on race or their sexual preferences? Would you tolerate this kind of behavior from people you know?

If you saw one of your male friends sexually harass or sexually assault a woman, or hit a woman, would you defend the woman, or just turn a blind eye? If your friends talk derogatorily about women all the time, would you speak up? Would you stop them from hitting their wife or girlfriend if you saw it happening? How about if it they were doing any of these things to your daughter, or sister, or mother? Would it really make a difference to you exactly who the woman was in relation to you, or would you stick up for all women?

If you saw a bully beating up or harassing a small child, would you intervene? If you saw anyone picking on and attacking someone weaker than them, would you speak up? If you saw someone mocking a handicapped person, would you step in? If you saw an adult mistreating children, submitting them to cruelty or neglect, would you try to stop it? Would you stand up to abusive bullies, or would you join in?

If you saw someone kicking a dog or torturing a wild animal, or throwing harmful waste into the water supply, would you just stand by and watch? If you saw someone you know throw their trash into the street everyday, or pour antifreeze on the ground to poison any animal who happened to walk through it, would you just let them do it? Would you be friends with someone who loved hunting exotic and endangered animals for sport, and who proudly posed with their trophies of dead giraffes and elephants and rhinos?

If you knew someone pretended to be your friend, but who constantly sided with your enemies and people who wanted to do you harm, would you remain friends with them? If they broke into your house, stole your money, or trashed your reputation, or helped the people who wanted to hurt you, would you ever have them in your house again? Would you help them by unlocking your front door, and by giving them more of your secrets to tell others who want to bring you down, or would you cut them off, and file charges? Would you even put up with someone who simply throws you under the bus every chance they get? Would you remain friends with someone who has no loyalty to you whatsoever?

If someone close to you, be it a friend or a love interest, lied to you constantly, would you have enough self respect to call them on it? Would you have the self esteem to walk away from someone who habitually lies to you about important things, who is selfish and controlling and treats you like you’re garbage? Do you think enough of yourself to demand that the people in your life treat you with respect, and not treat you like you’re some kind of worthless idiot? Would you be smart enough to see when someone is using you, and strong enough to call them out, or leave them when they are?

Here’s the thing: If you support Trump, or today’s Republican party, you are aligning yourself with all the wrong answers to any of those questions. You obviously know what the right answer to all those questions are, but even if you answer them all correctly, and then you turn around and support Trump, you are lying, to the world and to yourself.
Our president is a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist, and a bully. He is a liar, of epic proportions. He mocks everyone, including his base. He is corrupt, and abuses his power and position every chance he gets. He is a traitor. He is a thief. He is insecure and petty. He is a sexual abuser, and in all likelihood a rapist. His administration is putting children in cages, in concentration camps. His administration is rolling back every protection for the environment and for animals that they can. He is making it easier to hunt endangered species and bring back trophies, and to murder wolves, and allow more cruelty in the meat industry. His policies are accelerating climate change. He is cruel, and full of anger and hate. He cannot be trusted in the slightest, in any situation. He will turn on anyone if he thinks it will get him out of trouble. He has no loyalty to his friends, this country, or anyone but himself. He’s monumentally dumb, he can barely form a coherent sentence.
If you are any kind of decent human being, with any brains and self respect, he is no one you would allow anywhere near you or your family. He should repulse you. He should make your stomach turn.
But yet you support him, and you support every wrong answer to important questions that you can easily figure out what the right answer should be.
So there’s the real question: What kind of person are you?