Since the long depressing 8 year reign of Obama, and the inevitable landslide swing to Trump in the elections we now have a nation divided, socially, morally and politically. This has got to the point of being dangerous. A time bomb waiting to explode.
I don’t consider myself active or political, I just mind my own business and get on with life. I dislike, no hate all politicians, who are for the most part egotistical, self serving, useless morons who could not make it in the “real world” so they run for office. They herd votes from the (mostly ignorant) masses with deceptive media campaigns, blatent lies and false promises. When elected they give us all the proverbial finger and start their corrupt self serving careers.
Left or right they are all the same. People blindly vote for the less of two evils, normally the decision is solely based on what team they play for (democrats or republicans) with no comprehension or consideration for the candidates beliefs, policies and resulting actions (or inaction’s) when in office.
It is now dangerous to express public support for one party or the other. There was a time when you could openly declare your support and enjoy lively debate and discussion and mutually disagree without losing friendships, being verbally abused and even physical violence.
I live in California which is uber-liberal to the point of being ridiculous. I tend to lean more right in my personal beliefs, (libertarian) but I dare not share that with anyone, not even hint at it. If asked directly I have a “get out of jail” card in that I can say I have no real opinion one way or the other because I cannot vote as I am not a US citizen. (I am a green card holding legal “alien” or should I say a “documented immigrant” to be politically correct)
You don’t see any Trump bumper stickers here, this is the fastest way to get your car keyed, dented or firebombed, and if you happen to feel suicidal, then just wear a red MAGA cap in public, or try to walk through Walmart. A place where I was accosted, threatened and verbally abused because I had a grey (not red) baseball cap with “Triumph” across it (the motorcycle logo) as I proudly own and ride a Triumph. This particular person (like most democrats and liberals was obviously lacking the grey cells required to comprehend written words) thought it said Trump. When I did finally manage to get a word in to point out this misunderstanding I received no apology, but was shouted at some more for having he audacity to wear a cap which “looks” like is supports Trump. Unbelievable, but this is the left, never wrong.
This division is widening, and tensions increasing exponentially, the left Antifa movement is openly trying to incite violence with visceral hatred to anyone not on the hard left like them. For the large part all of them are young ignorant youth. All incited, funded and encouraged by people like George Soros used as ignorant puppet foot soldiers to further the elitist social and political agendas.
We have to only hope and prey cooler heads prevail and we can ride this out, remain civilized and not let this spin out of control into civil war.
I make it a point not to discuss politics with anyone. Nowadays you can lose business, lose friends, it can damage family relationships and even result in personal injury… well certainly in Southern California.
So out of fear and intimidation we all retreat into our respective “closets” and keep our beliefs and opinions secret. That is until we vote.
This is why the polls are so wrong and worthless now, no one will admit true affiliation for fear of intimidation and retribution, one reason the democrats were blindsided in the last election. They completely misread the public with arrogant confidence that people would buy into more of the same Obama era misery. And sore losers they have turned out to be.
Challenging, and dangerous times.
Rudge