And Trump is just a pig.
I am a good person. And, being a good person, I consider it a near certainty that you are also a good person. No kidding -- almost everybody we know is good.
I am sure that almost everybody in the Republican Party is essentially good, even though I love Barack Obama, another person we have overwhelming evidence is essentially good.
What is funny and ironic about what I have just said is how true and correct it is while at the same time being so completely disagreed with by almost everybody encountering it.
Republicans ask, "Obama is good? Hillary is good?" Democrats ask, "Republicans are good? Paul Ryan is good?"
Even Donald Trump? Now... I did say almost everybody.
Being human and good, I am struck by how many flaws I have. I wash and so forth, but I am perhaps the messiest person alive -- Oscar Madison territory, except for the food. Like, you will never find a half-eaten sandwich in my old pants pocket, but you might find a small pile of needing-to-be-laundered pants where it has no business being, and probably in more than one room of my house.
That's not my only flaw -- I have oodles more. My point isn't to self-flagellate, though I grant that in certain contexts that might be fun, my point is that if you followed me around for a decade and investigated everything about me, probably you would find some human dirt. For example, you will find lots of mistakes, many cases where I meant well but my head was up my own ass.
That being said, if you lived with me and saw my life for a week or a month, you would probably love me. You would be certain that I love you, eventually, and knowing this you would probably reciprocate. Why do I say this? I would care for you, I would serve you, do for you. I would still be flawed, even selfish sometimes, as we all are, but I would want what is good for you and I would mean that. What's not to love? And if my mess bothers you, I would straighten up.
I am human, but good. How many people reading this are exactly the same when push comes to shove? Almost everybody.
Certainly Hillary Clinton is, in the human sense, good. She is loaded with flaws, but it is certain that she wants what is good for the country as well as what is good for herself. It is certain that she wants what is good for women -- that is not a manipulation, but a sincerely felt value - as well as what is good for herself as a woman. She has made mistakes, even some whoppers.
But am I better than Hillary Clinton? Am I not just as thoroughly human? While managing a huge responsibility like being Secretary of State, could I miscalculate the number of people needed to secure a compound in the Middle East, a place where US military presence is interpreted as occupation and resented? Given that miscalculation, in a political context where every mistake is crucified for political gain, might I try to minimize the damage in terms of what I tell the press? Might I also choose to maintain a private line of communication to avoid future nit-picking scrutiny?
I could make those mistakes. Easy. I'm human. Anybody who puts themselves in Hillary Clinton's shoes and says they could have done better are straight-up fools. All we humans make big mistakes over the course of decades of time.
But I could never be the guy who is mocking disabled people. That isn't human any longer, at least not by an evolved definition of that word. People who target the disabled and step on them to get a laugh, glorify themselves, gain advantage, people who do that are true bottom feeders. In fact, given our current civilized perspective as a society, I would go so far as to say that only a true sociopath would mock a disabled individual.
This is no longer a political question, but rather a human one. It offends me that evangelicals are seriously considering voting for an antichrist because Hillary Clinton is guilty of human error. Must we forgive her as Christians? Yes. Must we forgive Donald Trump? Absolutely. And now that each of them has a clean slate at the foot of the cross, which flawed human being will we choose?
Hillary is flawed - as I am flawed. There is dirt, and we all have some. But Donald Trump is the absolute bottom of the barrel, he is beneath us as civilized people. He isn't a good person like you and like me. Donald Trump, given the opportunity, will grab your daughter's pussy the split second that is legal, he will take his old lips and tongue and kiss on her against her will and grope her because he has money and power. Don't take my word for that - take his!
See ... I could never do that. Neither could most of you. But I could use a private email server in a silly attempt to have any shred of privacy in my communications while running the government. I could make one mistake costing a handful of lives over the course of 4 years governing in a powder keg like Libya.
I can make mistakes -- I do that all the time. But I'm a good human. So is Hillary ... except not in the opinion of Trump, who openly treats women like dogs. How could any decent (let alone good) human being mock Marlee Matlin for her deafness? Isn't that just straight-up evil?
Donald Trump is a bully -- he is trash. Hillary Clinton is a flawed but decent human being, like almost all of us. And even though it may mean lawsuits and jail for me in the future, you may quote me.