Will you ever respect you Trumpist neighbors again?
I know I wont. Not out of malice or to be vindictive but rather because they have exposed themselves.
TRump cultists turned their back on America in favor of hate, orange hate. I will never look at them the same.
Will you?
Sorry but no.
I'll never forgive them either.
Hey, if they mind their own business at the same level in the neighborhood that I do, and they don't actively contribute to the growing RW domestic terror base, I'll maintain a polite and civil veneer.
If on the other hand, they're running around town acting the way we've seen lately, and they're indoctrinating young kids and promoting revisionist history and teaching hatred, I'll resort to any legal trick in the book to blow them straight to Mars, be it causing them to move out, lose business, whatever it takes.
Countless times on DP we see threads demanding to know
"What has Trump ever done that hurt you personally?" and countless times we see firsthand accounts of how his policies have directly hurt themselves or people they know, or members of their family; this pandemic is only the biggest and most recent chunk of harm he has visited upon Americans.
It's a waste of time because it's just more Twumpy flavored sea-lioning, with the OP's just posting the thread to drag members into endless snot-twattery and to recycle the latest alternate fact word salad.
Thing is, I actually do know two neighbors who voted Trump in 2016 and probably did again this time around. And believe it or not, they don't have the stickers, yard signs or anything, but I've run into them wearing their MAGA hats with company over. They did have monthly MAGA get togethers prior to the pandemic. I have not seen them out and about lately but I would bet they actually are the rare Trumpers who DO wear masks. Yes, they're somewhere in senior citizen territory...a bit of grey and a bit of flabby insulation like so many of us including me.
They are not, at least as far as I can tell, obnoxious...they seem rather decent aside from their love of Trump. They are somewhat regular churchgoers because they do have Christian bumper stickers.
But, these two neighbors are hispanic Trumpers! They aren't regular white folks!
Anyway, compared to members of my own FAMILY who are in with Trump, they seem nice.
My own Twumpy family members, by comparison, have gone bat-shit insane, completely off the rails.
So, at least for me, it is not out of a general feeling of malice at all.
It is because these people, whether they care or not, or know it or not, HAVE by their choices, hurt me, my wife, and both my children. They have signed on for the kinds of beliefs that have already brought us within a hair's breadth of losing ALL remnants of any kind of constitutionally defined representative democracy, which is what we HAVE HAD for 240-something years, they have weakened the rule of law to the point where a class of people headed up by Trump himself have been created who are 100 percent beyond the reach of the law.
Their values and choices have damaged our economy, with the worst of it right at the local level, they have supported decisions which almost fatally damaged our elections, and their conspiracy beliefs, which are now INSTITUTIONAL in their stature, have seriously threatened the actual foundations of civilization itself in every free Western country in the world.
And these people, possibly with the exception of the two hispanic Trump neighbors
(I do not know for sure, I am just HOPING!) cannot be reasoned with. They can't even be talked to.
It's f*** your feelings and FAKE NOOZ no matter what you present to them.
So how does one respect that, or forgive it?
Sorry, it is impossible. It is just impossible.
