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Trump-supporting friend,
What weve got here is, failure to communicate
I know you think Im preoccupied with this President; that he is the reason Im so angry and bitter and frustrated these daysbut youre wrong.
This isnt about Donald Trump.
Its never been about him.
. . .
And it isnt about him today: its about us.
This is about me and its about you.
Its about my grief at the ugliness you feel emboldened to post on social media now, the nastiness you seem newly capable of, the disgusting words you now so easily toss out around the dinner table.
Its about my disbelief at your sudden tolerance for his infidelity, his cruelty, his intellectual ignorance, his disrespect for the rule of lawthings you once claimed you could never abide.
Its about my incredulity at your surprising resentment for marginalized people; for your inability to muster any compassion for those who are hurting or frightened or threatened.
Its about my disappointment at your easily manipulated nationalistic fervor; how the God and Guns, America First, Love it or Leave it rhetoric, so easily took root in your hearthow hostile to outsiders and foreigners youve become.
Its about my amazement at your capacity to make your faith so pliable, that you could amen a compulsive liar, a serial adulterer, a fear-mongering bully; a man in nearly every way antithetical to the Jesus youve always said was so dear to you.
Its about my sickness seeing you excuse away his coddling of racists, his public attacks on the FBI, his impulsive firings of Cabinet members, his Tweet rants against individual citizens and American companies.
Its about my grief seeing you respond to his near-hourly display of recklessness and overreach, with a shrug of your shoulders or a turning away from it all.
. . .
Most of all, its about me realizing that when all this is overwe are still going to have to deal with all of this. Our fractures are going to outlive this Presidency.
You see, I really dont give a damn about Donald Trump.
He doesnt matter to me. He never has.
Hes a three-time married, C-level reality TV celebrity, with a long and well-documented resume of sexual misconduct, financial disasters, and moral filth. Hes a professional predator whos spent his life exploiting people for personal gain. Thats who he was before and who he will be when he leaves office.
. . .
When this is all over, the divides and the fractures and the wounds between us are going to remain.
This is why Im angry and bitter and frustrated; not because of Donald Trumpbut because of meand because of you.
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)They list in great detail
* the ways Obama destroyed our country, the constitution, our democracy, the best health care in the world
* how HRC is a much bigger and worse criminal than T could ever be
Etc, etc, etc
(I'm just summarizing some views posted )
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Bernardo de La Paz
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