JL, I have a long-time friend who managed to admit that Trump "could be more polite," when I responded to an earlier comment she'd made that caused me to think that she didn't like him. From past experience, I knew politics was a hot-button issue that we couldn't discuss. She is not a racist, not homophobic, or any of the other labels us…
JL, I have a long-time friend who managed to admit that Trump "could be more polite," when I responded to an earlier comment she'd made that caused me to think that she didn't like him. From past experience, I knew politics was a hot-button issue that we couldn't discuss. She is not a racist, not homophobic, or any of the other labels usually associated with current-day Republicans, and I was puzzled about her allegiance to today's cult. Finally, I realized that her loyalty to her father and the rest of her strongly Republican family made it impossible to consider the alternatives. As you've described the credo of the Republican platform in 2012 in Texas, my friend is apparently incapable of freeing herself to consider challenges to her family-instilled fixed beliefs. Over the last almost 10 years with Trump-the-Moron at the helm, I have deliberately distanced myself from this onetime friend. I know she doesn't approve of his outlandish behavior, but apparently doesn't feel she can challenge any of it "for the greater good." My fixed beliefs are vulnerable to challenge, especially if they prove to be used by cruel, despicable people to injure others or our democracy.
Thanks for your insight, and I continue to be terribly worried by the right wing's attempt at mind control with their flock.
JL, I have a long-time friend who managed to admit that Trump "could be more polite," when I responded to an earlier comment she'd made that caused me to think that she didn't like him. From past experience, I knew politics was a hot-button issue that we couldn't discuss. She is not a racist, not homophobic, or any of the other labels usually associated with current-day Republicans, and I was puzzled about her allegiance to today's cult. Finally, I realized that her loyalty to her father and the rest of her strongly Republican family made it impossible to consider the alternatives. As you've described the credo of the Republican platform in 2012 in Texas, my friend is apparently incapable of freeing herself to consider challenges to her family-instilled fixed beliefs. Over the last almost 10 years with Trump-the-Moron at the helm, I have deliberately distanced myself from this onetime friend. I know she doesn't approve of his outlandish behavior, but apparently doesn't feel she can challenge any of it "for the greater good." My fixed beliefs are vulnerable to challenge, especially if they prove to be used by cruel, despicable people to injure others or our democracy.
Thanks for your insight, and I continue to be terribly worried by the right wing's attempt at mind control with their flock.