STILL SUPPORTING A RUTHLESS DICTATOR
Not all Trump supporters are rednecks living in a burned out old school bus in coal country....still seething that a black man not only dared to be president, but generally accomplished a helluva lot considering the economy was in free fall when he was sworn in and the right wing Senate and House did everything it could to include his human-based agenda.
I happen to know a highly-educated couple who were fairly liberal Democrats when we met them in early 2001.
Both are professionals.
One is a double minority -- Hispanic and Jewish.
One has fought a litany of health issues that would seem to make them want to favor access to affordable health insurance.
They were big Hillary supporters the first time she ran, when Obama eventually won the nomination.
Somehow -- maybe there is poison in the water where they live in Broward County -- they shifted into being Trump supporters.
Even though Trump's power base is white supremacists. Even though his moral guidance was an anti-semite Breitbart alum.
Even though Trump made fun of a disabled reporter.
Even though Trump said Mexicans are filthy murderers and rapists...and while the Hispanic person in the husband wife-team isn't from Mexico, you would think he would take offense at a President denigrating any minority group.
They unapologetically supported the great myth that is Trump....that the Donald would somehow drain the swamp, rather than fill it with greedy one percenters who are taking away health care, tax deductions for medical care, parkland and every essential a middle class or working poor person needs to survive.
Most of their clients are progressive Democrats. I have been so bitter about the election, I have thought about "outing" the couple to their clients.
I wonder if those folks suffering under an insane, ruthless POTUS would be so quick to pay their public and private sector dollars for the professional services of a couple who like race-baiting maniacs in the White House.
So far, I have not outed them.
I ran into a mutual friend the other day.
She mentioned that the couple is hurt that I have not socialized with them...face-to-face or on social media, for more than a year now.
I said I cannot sit down to pasta and wine and renew a friendship with people who support a bloodthirsty, would be dictator. I live in Little Havana. More than half of my neighbors -- Cuban, Central American, South American -- have fled a dictatorship.
They have had relatives imprisoned, castrated, tortured, ruined -- simply for trying to be free thinkers under extreme right and extreme left regimes.
Sorry, but I cannot force a smile and think of the old days, with people who willfully ignore the evil of #45.
I happen to know a highly-educated couple who were fairly liberal Democrats when we met them in early 2001.
Both are professionals.
One is a double minority -- Hispanic and Jewish.
One has fought a litany of health issues that would seem to make them want to favor access to affordable health insurance.
They were big Hillary supporters the first time she ran, when Obama eventually won the nomination.
Somehow -- maybe there is poison in the water where they live in Broward County -- they shifted into being Trump supporters.
Even though Trump's power base is white supremacists. Even though his moral guidance was an anti-semite Breitbart alum.
Even though Trump made fun of a disabled reporter.
Even though Trump said Mexicans are filthy murderers and rapists...and while the Hispanic person in the husband wife-team isn't from Mexico, you would think he would take offense at a President denigrating any minority group.
They unapologetically supported the great myth that is Trump....that the Donald would somehow drain the swamp, rather than fill it with greedy one percenters who are taking away health care, tax deductions for medical care, parkland and every essential a middle class or working poor person needs to survive.
Most of their clients are progressive Democrats. I have been so bitter about the election, I have thought about "outing" the couple to their clients.
I wonder if those folks suffering under an insane, ruthless POTUS would be so quick to pay their public and private sector dollars for the professional services of a couple who like race-baiting maniacs in the White House.
So far, I have not outed them.
I ran into a mutual friend the other day.
She mentioned that the couple is hurt that I have not socialized with them...face-to-face or on social media, for more than a year now.
I said I cannot sit down to pasta and wine and renew a friendship with people who support a bloodthirsty, would be dictator. I live in Little Havana. More than half of my neighbors -- Cuban, Central American, South American -- have fled a dictatorship.
They have had relatives imprisoned, castrated, tortured, ruined -- simply for trying to be free thinkers under extreme right and extreme left regimes.
Sorry, but I cannot force a smile and think of the old days, with people who willfully ignore the evil of #45.
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