Recently, Hillary Clinton said in a speech that half of all Trump supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables”.  Deplorable, if you don’t know, means extremely bad in quality.  What I find amazing about this statement is that it’s coming from someone who wants to be President.  It comes from someone who is vowing to represent the very people that she has called deplorable.

Every election, Republicans attack Democrats, and Democrats attack Republicans.  Most of the things that they say are just an outright attack in the fact that it has no basis.  For example, Clinton saying that Donald Trump is a racist because David Duke endorsed him.  Just because David Duke endorsed Donald Trump, does not make Trump a racist.  In fact, Donald Trump refused to accept the endorsement and disavowed it, but Clinton still uses this as a platform for calling Trump a racist.  I honestly believe that people are throwing the word racist around and truly don’t know what it really means.  If Trump was a true racist, would he be married to his current wife, Melania, who is a Slovenian?  I mean, think about it.

So back to the topic at hand.  Every election cycle when there are several candidates for each party, they attack each other.  Democrats attack Democrats and Republicans attack Republicans.  All Democrats are at each others throats trying to discredit their opponent so that they can get the nomination.  Republicans do the same.  Most of what’s said is complete nonsense and really doesn’t have anything to do with actual facts.  That’s why in 2008, Obama said that Clinton was unfit to be President.  He wanted to nomination so he attacked her and she did the same to him, but now in 2016, it seems that they are the best of friends.  Obama has even endorsed the very person that he said was unfit to be President.  It’s all just words and just a bunch of made up jargon to make the other look bad.

Once it comes down to a 1 on 1 match between a Republican candidate and a Democrat candidate,  they start attacking each other to try and discredit one another.  Once again, it becomes a lot of words without a lot of facts between the two candidates.  Their goal it to discredit the other and seem as if they are unfit to be President.  For example, it Trump wants to deport illegals, he’s labeled as a racist, but if Clinton wants to keep open boarders, she’s labeled as insensitive to the safety of America.  I’m sure both candidates have good values and it’s one thing to attack another candidate, but when Clinton took her attacks to the American people calling them deplorables, I think she took her attacks as a candidate to a whole new level and a whole new low.

It doesn’t matter who your voting for.  Whether your going for Clinton, Trump, Johnson, Stein, or whoever, nobody should ever be called deplorable.  It’s insulting for one and for two, how in the world are you going to call the very people that you claim to want to represent, bad people and of poor quality?  Especially Americans of all people.  While Clinton has since apologized for the comment, I believe that the damage is done.  People don’t easily forget something like this and I truly believe that she will feel it in the polls.