So I get on Facebook as I do most mornings. I actually see what’s happening in the world that way. I am an introvert at heart.
Of course I have been caught up in all this election stuff. At first Trump’s run for president was amusing–his loud mouth antics, uninformed opinions–yes, all very amusing. Until he was nominated as a candidate. I suppose I didn’t think he’d make it. I am not a Republican but I thought the GOP could come up with a better candidate than Donald Trump. Now the shit is just scary.
I clicked on this article:
A lie enabled by the American corporate news media: “Decent” people do not support Donald Trump
“Bigotry and vulgarity are central to Trumps’s appeal to millions of voters — that’s a fact”
In the article there is a link to this:
Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump’s Crowds
A video of Trump supporters voicing their “support” for Trump and his “policies”. It is disturbing to say the least. It made me cry that so many feel the way they do, so many hate the way they do.
Now I am no angel– I have hated people, but never as a group. I know to hate is wrong but I have to admit I hate (have hated) based on individual action…what I know and have observed about a particular individual. As a realist I know, that you can’t love or even like everyone. But to hate a group (based on race, religion, cultural identity) of people because YOU are ignorant, jealous, insecure and afraid? Just terrible. And SICK.
All I can do is SMH and say this shit is scary at this point. How do we counter this way of thinking? What can we say to these people, many of which, are at best, stubbornly misguided, and at worst, mentally ill? There is no reasoning with them.
Towards the end of the video one man says he thinks Trump will turn America back to the America he grew up in. SHUDDER.
This is not the America I grew up in. At least I thought it wasn’t. This all just makes me more introverted, or even reclusive. I just want to stay home and away from people like these Trump supporters. There are just so many that think like this, too many of them coming out of the woodwork exposing their terrible beliefs.
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