The Voice You Are Told to Have

Liberals can say anything they want to without fear of the press challenging their assertions.  Certain liberals can say stupid things without fear, because they are not only leftists but in the pantheon of worship on the left.  Michelle Obama is one of them.

"Inbound 2017" was a business conference of some kind held in Boston last week, featuring supposedly influential speakers helping you get your business moving and growing.  For some unknown reason, they invited the former first lady to speak, which was ironic given that her husband was easily as anti-business as any president in anyone's memory.  That must tell us something about the producers of Inbound 2017, and why the attendance for Inbound 2018 might be down a tad.

In her remarks, during which one could have hoped that she could have used her vast business acumen and lengthy experience and success in the private sector, she couldn't help but wander into politics and the 2016 election.

Women who voted for President Trump, she said, had voted against their "authentic voice."  Oh, yes she did.  And went on:

"Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice," she said. "What does it mean for us as women that we look at those two candidates, as women, and many of us said, that guy, he's better for me, his voice is more true to me.  Well, to me that just says you don't like your voice. You like the thing you're told to like."

My business is growing already, having just heard that.  Oh wait ... my business closed, primarily because the anti-business posture of her husband strangled small-business loan availability and access to capital.

That was a particularly egotistical thing for Mrs. Obama to have said.  "Egotistical", you ask?  Well, yes.  She was saying that, based on no professional psychological experience in the area whatsoever, she knows the "voice" of every female voter in the USA.  Yes, she does.

Over 41% of American woman voters voted for Donald Trump, which is a lot of people voting "against their own voice."  Mrs. Obama addressed the question as to what that means, and her answer, which egotistically was supposed to apply to all of those 41%, was that they, every one, by voting "He's better for me" than Hillary Clinton, don't "like their voice" but instead like "the thing you're told to like."

Those were prepared remarks.  That means that whoever wrote that for her had a point to make and chose those words to make the point.  Worse, if she actually wrote the words, that's how she actually feels.  Yuck.

So I have to ask this.  If 41% of female voters -- 30 million American women -- were told to like the "thing", which we assume to be Donald Trump, then who told all of them what to like?  I mean, 30 million women is a lot of women, and plenty of them were pretty passionate about voting for Trump, not voting for Hillary, or both.  Was that because they were "told" to feel that way?  By whom, ma'am, who told them to feel that way?  Men?

Worse yet, Mrs. Obama just told them, every single one, that they "don't like their voice"  What the heck does that even mean?  I'm sitting here trying to interpret what she said to them and I don't like what I just came up with.

Because, reading the words that were prepared for her and which she spoke, she is saying this:
Some 30 million women in this country are so weak that, even though they didn't want to vote for Donald Trump and didn't want to reject Hillary Clinton and all she stood for, and even though voting is done by secret ballot, they did so anyway.

Right?  They "don't like their voice" and "voted for whom they were told to."  That tells me that every woman in America did not want Donald Trump to be president.  She made a blanket statement to that effect, so I have to make a blanket assumption about what she said.

I'll tell you this, Michelle Obama.  The people who were the lemmings in the 2016 election were not the women who voted for Donald Trump, regardless of what reason they did so, but the women who voted for Hillary Clinton solely, or even in part, because she had a uterus.  Those women could not see past gender identity, to realize that Hillary clearly had no capacity to fix the nation's issues or even recognize them, because when she had had the opportunity to do so, she had operated solely to enrich herself by the corrupt "Foundation."

The women who voted for Donald Trump, in contrast, often had to be quiet about their views lest they be subject to the whining of the left, the precise kind of whining that you, Mrs. Obama, just laid on that poor audience in Boston.

I'll tell you another thing, Madam Former First Lady.  It's not the Trump-voting women who are weak -- they, after all, had to vote against what all the hectoring leftists like you said, the ones who told them they had to vote for Hillary because she was female.  You're the weak one.  In contrast with the current first lady, who has been willing to say when she differs from her husband on issues, you never said squat while your husband ran up $10 trillion in more debt, trashed the USA health insurance system and tried to stuff inadequately vetted Syrian "refugees" into my neighborhood.

So if you thought my wife voted for President Trump because someone "told her to", well, (A) you don't know my wife, and (B) go to Hades, do not pass GO, do not collect a red cent.

Copyright 2017 by Robert Sutton
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