I was already planning on writing a post about this topic when the above cartoon made the rounds on Twitter this morning. The idea of various kinds of relationships breaking up due to a so-called difference in politics has been out there for most of 2020. I recall seeing a social media post from someone a few months back talking about how you shouldn't cut any of your friends out of your life over this election because you'll need them long after the politics of this moment play out. And I couldn't agree less. What's happening now is NOT a difference in politics. If someone is still supporting Trump, especially if they are enthusiastically supporting him, they are racist. At the very least, they're okay with his racism. In my book, that makes you one and the same. In no universe is supporting a racist okay, I don't care what you mistakenly believe about him ending abortions or whatever shit the Evangelicals and Midwestern gun nuts are using to justify idolatry of him. Trump is out for one thing - money. He has profited off the Presidency. He will profit off of whatever comes next. He will burn this country to the fucking ground, no matter what happens tomorrow. This man is a fucking lunatic who is mentally ill, has absolutely no redeeming qualities and is only about himself. Make no mistake that he will throw anyone and everyone under the bus should the authorities come calling about all the shady shit that has come out the past four years. And that's the irony, isn't it? We all know he didn't think he'd actually win in 2016, he just wanted to stir shit up and prove he could hang. He was pissed a Black man had been President for 8 years and a woman would succeed him. We know he hates women, especially educated women in power. He and all the rich fucks he appointed to be in his administration had no fucking clue how government worked. He thought he could delegate the Presidential tasks to others, take the credit for everything that happens and profit off his new position of power. What he didn't expect was that people would call him on his shit and a global pandemic would show what a clueless coward he was. When people blow smoke up your entitled ass your whole life, you expect that everywhere you go. Countless allegations of all kinds came out prior to the 2016 election; his pedophilic comments about dating his own daughter, rape allegations of all kinds, his hate of anyone who is not a rich, white asshole. It was all out there, all well documented. His lies were out there too. Hell, the fact he was trying to buy an election via whoring himself out to Russia was front and center. But what swung the whole thing? Emails. Emails that were never found to be illegal. Hilary Clinton had one investigation into her, Trump has had several and many are ongoing. That right there told people all they needed to know and yet...it still happened. Four years later, shit is even worse than anyone could have imagined. Things were already a fucking mess prior to 2020, but a global pandemic has just been icing on a misshapen, disgusting cake. While Americans continue to isolate themselves from an increasingly unsafe world, get sick and die in droves, Trump lives in this faux reality he creates for himself where every move he makes is gold and anyone who doesn't think so is branded fake news or liberal or a nasty woman. The lies have come fast and furiously in this election cycle. With no crooked Hilary tagline, he's become increasingly unhinged and lied about having Covid (notice how he has zero of the lingering effects many others report, which is quite something for an overweight old man who dyes himself orange), then latched onto white supremacist supporters and instructed them to commit crimes in his name. If someone is coloring in that bubble next to Trump's name, all of the above is what you are not only voting for and endorsing, but also condoning. Kids in cages? That's fine, as long as he forces women to have all the babies. Every single thing he's done is validated with a vote for him.
Make no mistake, when people say they're voting for Trump, they are saying all the negative shit he has done is A-okay. And that is why this is not a Bob and Sally issue. We are so far from this being the every four years Democrats vs. Republicans showdown. This is literally a battle between pure fucking evil and good. This is a battle between democracy and dictatorship. This is a battle between hate and love. "A battle for the soul of our nation," is not just a Biden/Harris tagline, it is the absolute truth. If you still support the hate and racism and lies and overall disgustingness that is Trump, even after all he's shown you, I do not trust your judgement. I do not want, nor need you in my life. There was a time for giving some of his voters the benefit of the doubt, some people voted for him thinking it was funny back in 2016. But that time ended around the time he botched Covid-19 back in February. If you're still on his bandwagon, you're just as disgusting as he is. I've been quite fortunate to find that I've been mostly aligned with good people through all this. I've only had to cut a handful of people out of my life. I've been surprised by some acquaintances being so comfortable in their support of him, but acquaintances are far easier to cut loose. Will you need friends long after this season passes? Of course. But this season has shown you the true colors of the people in your life. When people show you who they are, believed them. This season, awful and crushing as it is, is a blessing, of sorts. It's a time to purge undercover toxic people from your life. And that's not because they're voting for one guy over another, it's because their values and beliefs no longer align with yours, if they ever did to begin with. "Oh, he's not referring to you when he insults Mexicans/African-Americans/Asians," is not a compliment, or a justification. Because these groups know he refers to all of us. He believes everyone who is one of those colors are whatever insult he's hurling at the time. All the Chinese people are to blame for Covid. All the Mexicans are racist. All the African-Americans are lazy. If you're using that line to justify, what you're actually saying is you think it's fine that he insults any racial group at all. You're saying you think he's right about those groups. And that makes me question how you actually feel about me as a Hispanic person, or my daughter as an African-American/Hispanic person. You're saying it's okay for her other parents and I to have to have that extra "talk" with her about how to deal with the police. And I cannot keep someone like that in my life and look my daughter in the eye and explain it. Keeping someone like that in my life is telling Miss N that's it's okay for people to think she deserves less than anyone else. Twenty years from now, world not ending permitting, there will be a lot to answer for. You either voted for the big ass, racist baby or you voted for someone who gives a full flying fuck about people. How you vote says so much more about you this election than in any other election in the past. Bob and Sally may have no self-esteem or backbone, or no problem having no common ground. But some of us do.
