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Thunderbeast

(3,405 posts) Fri Dec 2, 2022, 01:59 AM Dec 2022

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Just watched an encouraging documentary on YouTube

"THE GAME IS UP; DISSILLUSIONED TRUMP VOTERS TELL THEIR STORY"

There is hope for many of our fellow citizens who lost their way.

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Just watched an encouraging documentary on YouTube (Original Post) Thunderbeast Dec 2022 OP

The title alone deserves a rec. ✔️ live love laugh Dec 2022 #1

+1 SheltieLover Dec 2022 #2

OK, but they did tremendous damage to our country. "I'm sorry," probably isn't enough. NNadir Dec 2022 #3

This. A thousand times this. GoneOffShore Dec 2022 #4

Indeed... 2naSalit Dec 2022 #5

They will be voting for decades Thunderbeast Dec 2022 #6

I'm sure that they need no interaction with me to decide to do... NNadir Dec 2022 #7

live love laugh

(13,096 posts)

1. The title alone deserves a rec. ✔️

Reply to Thunderbeast (Original post)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 02:07 AM

Dec 2022

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)

2. +1

Reply to live love laugh (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 04:19 AM

Dec 2022

NNadir

(33,512 posts)

3. OK, but they did tremendous damage to our country. "I'm sorry," probably isn't enough.

Reply to Thunderbeast (Original post)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 04:26 AM

Dec 2022

I wish I could be forgiving, but I really can't.

GoneOffShore

(17,339 posts)

4. This. A thousand times this.

Reply to NNadir (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 04:56 AM

Dec 2022

2naSalit

(86,510 posts)

5. Indeed...

Reply to NNadir (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 06:40 AM

Dec 2022

They went way past the point of forgiving years ago.

Thunderbeast

(3,405 posts)

6. They will be voting for decades

Reply to NNadir (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 09:47 AM

Dec 2022

Staying angry at them forever will result in the 2016 results, not 2020.

Some thought they were voting for Reagan.
Some were young and impressionable.
Some thought they were "saving babies".
Some thought they were doing what Jesus must want.

All of the subjects broke through the dissonance when Trump moral and policy failings were exposed. They are by no means Democrats now, but they escaped the FOX and pulpit brainwashing long enough to see that they were lied to and manipulated.

I am hoping that they signal hope for an eventual return to rational policy differences rather than vitriol and bigotry.

NNadir

(33,512 posts)

7. I'm sure that they need no interaction with me to decide to do...

Reply to Thunderbeast (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 10:13 AM

Dec 2022

...the right thing.

My personal opinion is of no consequence to them. These are, after all the "Fuck your feelings" crowd.

If they need my forgiveness to become decent human beings, the prognosis for them doing so is low.

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