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Best thing to do now is strike up some conversation, and somewhere in there toss in the comment that we as a country were lied to.
Yes many already knew they were lies when spoken, but those convinced of trump didn't see them then, and saying "ha told you" doesn't help. Saying "we were lied to and we need to fix it" does, and brings us a little more together.
Shits only gonna get worse and I'd much rather have allies in my community than people that wanna see me get disappeared. As it's been said before, this is a right vs wrong moment, not a right vs left. We should be working together instead of just laughing at each other as we all go down with the ship.
Wrong vs right, against each other vs. solidarity still is right vs left put this doesn't have to mean person vs. person. I think it's a good call to make it about opinions and perspectives not people, but depoliticizing it is neither neccessary nor helpful.
People are being lied to and there are politicians you could listen to that don't lie. Those are lefties still
A Trump-voting coworker spent 30 minutes trying to convince me that Trump was trashing the global economy to tank the Iranian rial in order to keep them from buying uranium to enrich and develop a nuke, without having to resort to military action.
It sadly seems that some Trump supporters - a good number, I'd wager - are still delusional and unable to admit that they've been conned
It's literally a cult and they are brainwashed. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to convince them otherwise, just that we need to treat it like it is. If you've ever seen interviews of people that were formally in cults you would see that they believe everything that they were told no matter how ridiculous. It's not because they are necessarily evil and more that they think they are right and will fight tooth and nail to prove it, just like anyone else would when their world view is in question. The real evil ones are the ones that are manipulating these people to do evil things with promises of a better life.
I'm not saying we have to forgive them or even like them, I'm just saying we need to treat them like the imperfect people we all are before they actually do turn into monsters. The brain doesn't like to be contradicted and some people that have gotten out of cults have had to go through years of therapy just to undo the brainwashing.
I admin one of the private 50501 FB groups where we vet every member, and I can attest that there are, indeed, registered Republicans joining our ranks.
As much as someone might want to gloat, or not forgive, or blame and shame, I think its much more important to not do these things. They need to be given as much comfort and acceptance in their new found rejection of trump. This way they'll have more confidence to spread it to the other trumpers, hopefully.
Idk just my take.
You’re probably right, but I’m just over being the bigger person and letting them off scot-free. They need to take their lumps and FIX WHAT THEY BROKE.
Otherwise we should just move forward without them.
Downvote away.
Otherwise we should just move forward without them.
The problem is they are the ones currently winning, and dragging us along their horror version of moving forward.
I'd love to move forward without them, if we had the power and the numbers. We clearly do not.
My neighbor took their trump flag down.
Their isntreal flag is still up, babysteps.