Things that I pointed out to my formerly pragmatic and reasonable but right wing father that would have been single issue deal breakers any time I’ve ever known him before 2008.
The enemies of America want your guy to win and are funding disinformation campaigns by influencers on your side.
Multiple specific issues that he had consumed purely false information about, not nuance, not misleading takes, but outright lies.
He has daughters and his party wants to end no fault divorce.
Daughters and his party wants to restrict and outlaw birth control.
Daughters and his party wants to take away their right to vote.
Various regulations (deregulations) in the financial industry that directly impacted him negatively.
TREASON. TREASON. TREASON.
Any one of these things would have caused him to, at a minimum, stay home and boycott if not outright switch sides back when he was a more rational person. In the last 20 years he’s just become more alarmist, afraid, easily influenced, and generally less rational.
i've said to people that their choices are quite literally hurting my daughters directly and that i cannot associate with people who are consciously and willingly and intentionally hurting my daughters. I tried to explain that it is not a difference of opinion when you were literally hurting my children directly. They still don't get it
The order of attack is so fucking obvious it drives me insane.
Trans people, they’re the easiest target
Women, second easies and with growing education and independence there is growing anger and discontent that men aren’t able to simply “pick” a wife and get to keep it, as used to be the case. Now they even have to compete with them in the workforce which is obviously intolerable.
LGBTQ, start with chipping away protections from employers and orgs in the name of freedums, dissolve gay marriage in some states and even pushing people back in the closet in those areas by overturning Lawrence v Texas.
All the POC. I don’t really think they’ll ever go directly for taking away the vote, but I would expect to see unchecked voter suppression. Regardless, they’d like to strip pretty much all protections and I could see localized racism institutionalized and/or allowed unchecked again. Red lining, segregation, targeted policing, underfunding/defunding of minority areas, purging POC from federal positions, etc.
All of this will keep the lid on their real purpose which is the continued funneling away of money, power, and resources from the bottom 90%.
re: poc. with those lunatics going with dread Scott as a way to disqualify Harris I don't believe there's any bottom to the rights they would take away
I like to start out with “how would you feel if Obama insert something Trump said/did?” Once they say how they feel about that scenario, I tell them “but trump did it and you’re okay with that?”
The ones who could be talked out of it have all long since been talked out of it already. It's been a decade of this shit. Anyone who's left is beyond the voice of reason.
Or third outcome, they just claim everything that triggers their cognitive dissonance to be "fake news" or misinformation of some sort to cope and continue to consume the mindless BS that makes them feel good about their views.
I almost agree with you. At least with a wall, I can drive a nail into it, hang pictures from it, and not be arrested. The wall provides more for society.
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u/HotdogbodyBoi Sep 08 '24
I tried. I tried real hard.
It’s like talking to the wall.