Got into a “discussion” about Trump. I didn’t want to. This guy pushed me. He will probably see this message. Know that you’re my friend. Guy who this is about. This isn’t your fault. Your beliefs are fine. For you. For now. But we’re aren’t going anywhere as a society as a nation until people like you, change. You aren’t really going to benefit from your beliefs in the long run.
A man I know and appreciate told me he was voting for Trump. Party lines. He said he hated Trump. But he was voting for the lesser of two evils. The party was making the decision for him.
I didn’t argue with him then. I respected it. I really did. I want you. To want me. Uhh. I mean I want you to make your own decisions. Even if you take that decision to the floor and vote with your group. Your tribe. Your party.
Anyway. We got into it last night. He started with, “In 2021, I was mocked by the opposite side. They laughed at me! They were awful people. And I didn’t fight them. And now I’m not doing the same to them, when they lost. I didn’t tell them how to vote. They aren’t telling me how to vote. If I respect you. You respect me. I don’t care. I’ll be richer under Trump.”
This was the argument. He felt validated. I agreed. I was very much on his side. I hate that assholes are assholes no matter what side of history they are on. I pointed at him and scolded i.e. was a little more stern, “So, it’s all about you and fuck everyone else?” Yep.
BUT THEN, I tried to pull the creme de la creme of scary ass arguments out of my sheath.
I said, this is the truth. Nazis are on your side! White supremacists are on your side! Christian Nationalist are on your side! something something THIS SHOULD BE A RED FLAG TO YOU!
He didn’t care. Indifference.
Ok. I get it. Let’s come at this another way.
I know people of all feeling. They love who they love. They feel they are who they feel they are and that is no less truth than you feeling who you are, it doesn’t matter that you feel you are who you were born to be! That’s not an important thing to point out.
LGBTQ youths are sitting on hold to suicide hotlines because they are scared and want to die because the side you are on has them terrified! You are causing trauma.
This man. Said. If you kill yourself, that’s your decision.
Please make this stop, God. Let me off this planet. I will stay for as long as you want me too, Lord. Please help these people with no love. Who have been mocked and screwed over so much, they no longer value anything. They are nihilists without the peeing on rugs part.
Oh, wait, the nihilists didn’t pee on the rug in “The Big Lebowski” Anyway. Let’s not worry about those details.