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RawStory 7/23/20
Link: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/i-may-have-signed-my-own-warrant-teacher-regrets-her-trump-vote-as-schools-pushed-to-reopen-during-19/
Nancy Shively is a special education teacher and lifelong Republican from Oklahoma, who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 as the less bad of two bad choices, but she wrote a column for USA Today explaining that she made a grave error.
When the pandemic hit, the incompetence of the man for whom I had voted and the complicity of everyone around him forced me to admit that I could no longer maintain any kind of self-respect as a Republican, Shively wrote. So even though I had voted Republican in every presidential election since 1976, I changed my voter registration to independent and I will be voting for Joe Biden in November.
Nevertheless, she added, I am still haunted because, deep down, I fear that with that vote I may have signed my own death warrant.
Shively watched in horror as Trump ignored common sense and held a super-spreader event in Tulsa, not far from her home, and then pushed ahead with plans to reopen schools without cautionary safeguards to prevent the deadly virus from overrunning schools and their communities.
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Whew! I hope more Oklahomans feel this way. I could never understand why ANY teacher could ever vote for (or support) Chump.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,427 posts)Or Jeebus. Or both.
chia
(2,244 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)So I guess she's OK with Abu Graib and Gitmo deaths/torture.
bedazzled
(1,771 posts)All the other abominations were FINE. Gross...
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)I don't think she WAS fine with the other stuff. She just took the lazy person's attitude until it affected her own job and her own life.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)Aristus
(66,530 posts)You signed your students' death warrants, and you didn't even care...
jayfish
(10,040 posts)kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)actually think before he/she voted.
renate
(13,776 posts)I mean, Im glad for her vote, but I wouldnt want her to teach my kids.
Behind the Aegis
(54,064 posts)"Now that it affects me, I am filled with rue and regret." Boo-FUCKING-Hoo! What about your STUDENTS?! You concerned you may have signed their potential death warrants with your selfish and ignorant, no, not ignorant, STUPID, choice?!
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)nah!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)I understand the desire to put faces and voices to Republicans questioning what they've done, as a way of encouraging others to do the same...but the self-centered bullshit never ends. The concern starts and ends with themselves. With all the bullshit that's gone on since she helped elect the mofo, it wasn't until the pandemic that she got a clue the guy was 'incompetent'? She needs to cook a little more, she's not done.
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)A lot of Midwesterners read that paper. This story will be seen by ChumpHumpers, and maybe somebody's mind will be changed. We're the choir (so to speak) - we don't need to be convinced.
But those ChumpHumpers are never going to read our posts on DU. We should be glad this woman is biting the bullet and admitting her mistake. More and more of those people are slowly seeing the light.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)and I understand that...without the qualifiers she wouldn't appeal to Republicans.