Tom Ritchford
2 min readAug 13, 2020

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What in God's name are you talking about? Why would I conceivably vote for Trump? What part of "I am a socialist living in the Netherlands" did you miss?

I wouldn't vote for Trump under any circumstances, even if I could. (I'm a US taxpayer still but have never been a citizen.)

As I have made clear in this series, if were American I lived in a swing state, I'd swallow my pride and vote for Biden, useless though he is. (Of course, 90% of Americans don't live in a swing state and those voters mathematically can vote for whom they please. I suggest the Green Party.)

I spent thirty years in America and when I was there, I tried to help other people. I got one person off the street for good - he retired last year after fifteen years of a steady job. I helped many others. But generally I watched the country charge to the right as fast as possible.

Let the rest of you do the real work? It was thirty years of the Democrats failing over and over and over and over and over again. You didn't do the work. You aren't doing the work. You won't ever do the work.

After the Obama administration, I realized that positive change would be forever impossible, because the RNC are delusional and incompetent psychopaths, and the DNC are cynical empty suits whose prime interest is feathering their own nest and preventing any hint of actual leftism.

How long should someone stay in an abusive relationship? Your claim is "forever". For me, thirty years was enough.

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