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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI came to a realization today re: extended family.
Democracy in this country is in critical condition and may not survive. I just don't have the strength to spend time with people who are rejoicing about that.
watoos
(7,142 posts)I tell them, who can vote for a person who looks at a 10 year old girl with sexual thoughts, who says he will be dating her in 10 years. Only a pedophile does that.
dlk
(11,606 posts)Decades of right-wing propaganda have done serious damage. What too many people dont understand is how much worse life would be for them under those systems. They could be locked up indefinitely and all of their property seized, and they would have no recourse whatsoever.
Girard442
(6,088 posts)The state was (and still is) suffering the consequences of extreme rightwing politics but that never seems to change anyone's mind.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Just use snark. One Trumper called me a Socialist so I asked him if it was right for Trump to give soy bean farmers 12 billion taxpayer dollars because they lost their markets due to Trump's tariffs? I about shit, he admitted it was wrong.
Ohiogal
(32,213 posts)They just care that he implements their wishes to stick it to the right people. (immigrants, the poor, people of color, uppity women, non "Christians" .
watoos
(7,142 posts)gave little coverage of the pope giving 500k to help the immigrants at our southern border. I always give to Peter's Pence, where the money came from. I live in central Pa. among the Trumpers, I will be curious if the donations to Peter's Pence drops off this year. It must be hard being a Christian and a Trumper?