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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA thought I had during our evening neighborhood walk tonight...
Trump's awfulness - the reality that he ((somehow)) became president - hits us all here in so many dreadful ways - embarrassment, anger, frustration, disbelief - and on and on.
But - I also think one of the things that depresses us - it certainly depresses me - is learning about how many of our friends, family members, fellow citizens are lauding him, finding it all OK, baring their various isms.
It shouldn't be a surprise that a trump is spewed - vomited - out of humanity time to time (Hitler et al) - but it is pretty shocking to me, anyway, that so many support this. It is incredibly depressing, really, to realize how vile people can be - vile, or easily misled, or hateful, or....again, on and on.
ret5hd
(20,564 posts)Dozens of Beto O'Rourke yard signs...only 1 (so far) Ted Cruz sign. And these are on (multiple) blocks that we literally got cussed at when doing precinct walks for Obama.
Fewer and fewer trump bumper stickers etc.
Went to a showing of the movie "RBG" about Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The showing we wanted was sold out and we had to get tickets to the next showing. When I asked, EVERY showing was being sold out. Every single one.
Fewer and fewer spontaneous spewings from trump supporters in common daily interactions.
I dunno, but it seems to my limited view port on the world that the fire is starting to die out. God I hope Im right.
No one in my neighborhood has removed a bumper sticker/decal. And the Trump flag is back up again by a pool near me. I don't think the people around me (the majority, live in a RED district), have any regrets yet.
Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)period of time
mnhtnbb
(31,418 posts)for that ignorant, lying, sleaze bag, traitorous con man. One of the things that bothers me the most is how he has emboldened people to act on their bigotry and hate. He is encouraging millions of people to throw away their shared humanity in the name of "Making America Great Again". He is only dividing the country and making the rest of the world turn away from us in disgust.
It is incredibly depressing. I fear we won't survive this threat to our democratic system if he is allowed to remain in office much longer.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)50 years of Southern Strategy/dog whistling, race-based voter suppression, a successful "liberal media" campaign (resulting in a pathetic infotainment industry that won't call facts facts and falsehoods falsehoods, while promoting false equivalencies), Moral Majority bullshit, science denial, anti-intellectualism, etc.
I feel no sympathy or even much appreciation for Republicans (on TV or retiring from Congress) who are now speaking out against (only the most egregious aspects) of a monster they helped create.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)How easy it is for a Hitler or Mussolini to gather support for just about any idea. Some people really ARE stupid and able to be driven like cattle off a cliff.
How easy it is for people to agree to things like giving up a free press, their right not to be surveilled without a court order beforehand (the Pariot Act), their right to demand that the President not use his office for personal gain and to fix his policies based on whether he'd gain from it, their co-citizens being treated respectfully and in accordance with the Constitution, and so on. How easy it is, and was.
It's disheartening. But I do have hope, because more people have seen what's going on, or some of it. And are not supportive of him.
BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)I've had it. I will DEFINITELY work to get people out to vote
Chump acts like every bully I ever knew in grade school, even
using the same techniques, and has about the same I.Q.
herding cats
(19,569 posts)People who know are smarter than this, supporting him still. It's not an easy thing to witness.
Initech
(100,150 posts)And it's the same thought I have had since the night of the election. And that thought is "what fresh hell awaits us today?". Just when I think they can't seem to stoop any lower, when the corruption can't get worse, when the word feces that comes out of his mouth and on his phone cant stink any worse, it does. The sooner this nightmare ends the better.
djacq
(1,634 posts)Now.... Crickets.
Buyers remorse maybe?
cate94
(2,817 posts)Have me at wits end. Especially given his obvious willingness to throw Glbt under the bus.