I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with the idea that Pence is going to be better than Trump. Pence makes his goals of a Theocracy sound reasonable when he speaks. Make no mistake that his goal is to create an isolationist Theocracy and then move to take over as much as he can in the "name of god".
Indiana has an aids epidemic right now, one that Pence's refusal to join a needle exchange directly caused. He's pro conversion therapy, anti public education. Measures have gone into making school buses privatized. Considering the number of rural poor in the state, it could leave many students without access to an education.
I'm not just upset that Republicans are in power. I'm worried that my marriage is going to be criminalized. I worry that's what the Republicans actually WANT. I worry that Pence is going to do irreparable damage from the inside, not the outside.
Furthermore, I don't think Trump is BRAVE enough to start a full scale war with anyone. I also don't think that any country is going to let itself be offended into starting one with that blowhard either.
Pence is far more dangerous because he's insidious, intelligent, and above all else, believes that he is the righteous tool of his god that will purge this country of evil and become a bastion of his narrow definition of godly and just.
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Date: 2017-01-10 02:22 pm (UTC)Indiana has an aids epidemic right now, one that Pence's refusal to join a needle exchange directly caused. He's pro conversion therapy, anti public education. Measures have gone into making school buses privatized. Considering the number of rural poor in the state, it could leave many students without access to an education.
I'm not just upset that Republicans are in power. I'm worried that my marriage is going to be criminalized. I worry that's what the Republicans actually WANT. I worry that Pence is going to do irreparable damage from the inside, not the outside.
Furthermore, I don't think Trump is BRAVE enough to start a full scale war with anyone. I also don't think that any country is going to let itself be offended into starting one with that blowhard either.
Pence is far more dangerous because he's insidious, intelligent, and above all else, believes that he is the righteous tool of his god that will purge this country of evil and become a bastion of his narrow definition of godly and just.