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What’s your opinion on people without strong opinions?
I don’t really feel like talking about Trump anymore with people I don’t know well. So I would think “time to exit this conversation quickly and politely”.
I think they’re analogous to people who would stand and watch a stoning, then congratulate themselves on not having thrown any rocks themselves.
As a trans disabled woman there are numerous ways in which threatens my ability to exist. And while that does make me angry at Trump and his supporters, I mostly view them with pity.
The MAGA faithful are victims or well orchestrated propaganda, using just enough of legitimizes complains of our late capitalist white supremacist patriarchal society but only to blame the wrong people. I have frustration at the farmers who are now critizing Trump since they didn’t think they would be hurt by his actions, but sympathy enough to understand they were tricked. I wish, hope and pray that they will leave the echo chambers that influenced them to look past his numerous severe faults and obvious corruption but logically I don’t see that happening for many.
While I am angry at all MAGA folk, the majority of which I feel were too focused on the day to day survival in our increasingly expensive world, I can understand. I believe them to both willfully ignorant and globbed to someone they didn’t understand. The harm he has caused was telegrpahed clearly years, months and days ago. But hating, excluding and diminishing them only lessens the chance of them understanding the lies told to them.
Anyone can make a mistake. Sometimes we have to answer for those mistakes. Painfully.
I understand the psychology that leads people to vote that way, but I don’t forgive them for their mental laziness.
And my opinion of the person saying that depends on further contact with them. They flash me something sourced from alex jones, and I’m done.
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