The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump

[ApatheticAustrian]

clinton should not have said half if his supporters.. more ubspecific...many...or a lot of.....this is no coincidence and nearly everyone with a profile and a public name can share the same story.

[ApatheticAustrian]

surely this is theoretically a bi-partisan thing.

but.....practically the angry nihilist fringe-right is where the global momentum is right now and it's much easier atm to annoy one of them. close connected to the reason why the fringe right wind elections and the fringe left...outside of creece...doesn't.

[ApatheticAustrian]

this is the downside of "freedom" and an endless amont of information sources.

people can choose which kind of information they approve and rule out getting in contact with other opinions.

one of the few advantages of the old-school mass media....everbody read the same stuff even if they interpreted it differently.

today's society is more in danger of fracturing and on that road liberal democracy also loses.

[ApatheticAustrian]

No, this isn't representative of all Republicans, but did anyone notice anything like this under Romney?

at that time the fringe was the fringe, not running the trump campaign.

[ApatheticAustrian]

here is the account of his wife on this matter:


What it’s like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/21/what-its-like-to-experience-the-2016-election-as-both-a-conservative-and-a-sex-abuse-survivor/

I realize now — only now after all these years — it’s all been a facade. The “religious right,” which I’ve defended my whole life, abandoned the posture of “family values” when they had the chance to gain a seat at the table.

Here’s the truth. The GOP once was alive but is now dead. It confuses me to hear the values preached from the podium but ignored in real life; it feels odd to just repurpose a political party into an extension of the trump Empire without acknowledging the values which had so recently dwelled there.

My party — which should’ve been a place of a certain set of values — now shelters an abuser. I’m thinking of this when the GOP presses against me and asks me to close my eyes just one more time.