@mietze said in RL things I love:
@Arkandel Actually I had a hotlink on my phone to register people to vote in my county. Every single person of age I talked to of which there were many had already registered. Our political party organization for the county had over 100 people ready to do the same as well as some in possession of the paper forms--to the same result.
Please don't buy into Trump's bullshit.
As I mentioned in the post, I'm well aware Trump makes bullshit posts to serve his agenda. They are bullshit because he is much craftier than the crap he posts would make him sound like, and he posts them in the first place to cause something specific - to counter a good argument without using facts, for example, or to distract from revelations made in the media with some random petty shot on a celebrity.
It's not his bullshit I'm worried about, it's my perception that we're (meaning liberals and not just in the US) circle-jerking by continuously preaching to the choir - each other - things we already believe, and which we know will be well accepted because we're aware our target audiences accept them as well.
In that way it's easier for 'us' (I don't mean to bundle everyone's opinions together just by using a generic label like 'liberals', it's only to argue my very specific point here) to accept there are two camps and we simply happen to belong to the one where racists, homophobes, xenophobes and bigots are not, making us by definition the better people. It's certainly an attractive thought. I would personally like to buy into it - sure, it comes with the assumption the other side is extremely numerous as well, meaning tens or hundreds of millions of the worst humanity has to offer, but at least I'd be sided with the good guys. That's good, right? Being with the good guys?
But the nagging concern I have is that things aren't quite as black and white, not while right wing nuts the world over are gaining one victory after the other. There are people (who I'd like to demonize but can't) who feel left behind, ignored and neglected, and we - our side - haven't been able to reach them through years of more or less liberal governing. I don't know that they are all the scum of the earth; being downtrodden, unemployed, living in rural areas and stuck somewhere in lower middle class hell doesn't necessarily mean when you vote for someone like Trump you're an asshole; maybe it means you're just desperate. And if we're the good guys why haven't we done more for them?
I am in no way saying Trump gives half a shit about those people either, even if they're his base. He's already betrayed them - his cabinet is a who's who of the one-percent - and he will continue to do so unapologetically over the next four years... or more, if something doesn't change.
I am saying knowing he's full of shit doesn't mean the people who elected him didn't. I'm trying to imagine what that feels like; knowing you are voting for a person like that and still feeling he's better than the alternative.