Louis C.K., a comedian I used to think was brilliant, has circulated a really stupid open letter asking people who support Donald Trump to stop doing that. Someone needs to write a similar letter to Louis C.K. telling him not to write open letters like this.
His premise is that Trump is Hitler. Okay, right there he loses me. Since before we were all writing on and reading the Internet — back when we were on computer bulletin boards via 300 baud modems — I have maintained that you shouldn't liken anyone to Hitler unless the person was actually responsible for mass genocide. If someone was killing lots of Jews (or any ethnic or religious group) to achieve world domination, fine. They're Hitler. But if they were just being dangerous or treacherous or offensive, the analogy was a cheap shot. Trump is not quite there yet.
And it's silly to say we should elect a conservative as president just because it's their turn and it will give us some balance. That might be so if you can flip the Congress and the Supreme Court but the way they're structured — especially thanks to gerrymandering of the House — that doesn't happen so easily. So all you'd be doing is giving conservatives total control of the government for a while and there's no corresponding opportunity for liberals to have that.
I also really don't think John Kasich is okay. His agenda isn't very much different from any current Republican candidate — even Mitt Romney, who seems to be trying to find an opening. Kasich is just better at not sounding like a crazy person right now.
And when John McCain urges everyone to "think long and hard about who they want to be our next Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world," he's not talking about electing a saner person. He just wants a different person to do most of the same things. John McCain is the guy who still insists Sarah Palin is good for this country. If Trump's the nominee, McCain's going to support him or at least not oppose him. (That's the problem with all these politicians. Rubio says Trump is "the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency" and that he's a con artist…but he's still pledged to back him if he gets the nomination.)
And C.K. goes on from there about how Hitler wasn't such a bad human being. What exactly do you have to do to be a bad human being in this man's eyes? But you can read the whole sorry attempt at logic and poke holes in it for yourself. I wish I thought it was all a parody but if Louis C.K. was writing a parody, it would be a lot funnier than this.