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This undecided voter would appreciate the gesture of you sharing with me some examples of the “other absolutely horrible stuff”.

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The three worst are: normalization of racism after 50 years of steadily decreasing racism in America, terrible COVID response responsible for 100,000+ deaths in excess of what average countries have achieved, and vast corruption that has destroyed hundreds-of-years-old norms on presidential conduct (Secret Service forced to buy rooms at Mar A Lago, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs participating in a political stunt in uniform, political campaign letter included in food boxes, etc).

The election is basically that of a homeowner deciding whether he wants the guy who is spraying a flamethrower into every corner of his house, or an empty cardboard box. If you loathe your house and want it destroyed, the flamethrower guy is who you want. Just be careful, there’s no insurance check when the house burns to the ground.

* Separated families at the border fleeing violence * Installs government officials with conflicts of interest or intentions of undermining their goals (EPA, Post Office, Dept Education) * Asks foreign nations to dig up dirt on his opponents * Cosies up to authoritarians while insulting our allies (NATO anyone?) * Undermined the free press by calling everything he doesn't like fake news regardless of its validity * literally trying to call the next election into question so he can bring it to the supreme court by not agreeing to a peaceful transition of power and stoking fears about mail-in ballots o__0

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