Trump isn't my top choice for US president by a long way. But his rivals have earned plenty of negative feelings from me too.
Pocahontas (Elizabeth Warren)'s 1/1024 Native American ******* struck a nerve with me. As someone classified as white-Asian, I have never had any benefits in the Academic world. I get the worst of most identity politicking. The fact that someone got a great job and kept that job for decades thanks to 'diversity victimhood', is something I cannot accept.
At this age I have no illusions about being Harvard-worthy. But Warren was occupying a place that doubtless many true Native Americans, with real experiences of life on the margins and in the reservations, would have loved to hold. And somewhere down the line, I was deprived of a place that some other 'native' person who never earned her place took.
(A 1/32, blonde and blue eyed 'native American' got tenure in one of the places I've worked at. This person would never have been mistaken for a native American under any lighting condition or dress style.)
I'm not voting blue. If that makes me stupid, uneducated, racist and misogynist, I guess I'll just have to live with such monikers.