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'I may have signed my own death warrant': Teacher regrets her Trump vote as schools pushed to reopen
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/
A regretful Republican voter fears she may have unwittingly consigned herself to death by voting against Hillary Clinton four years ago.
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.
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.
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So I guess she's OK with Abu Graib and Gitmo deaths/torture.
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.
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.
and I understand that...without the qualifiers she wouldn't appeal to Republicans. 
