A quote from FB
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Call me defeatist, but I’m going to say this one last thing, then disengage from the subject entirely.
It’s hard to know what to say anyway, but it’s an important enough issue to at least clarify my position, to be on the right side of history if nothing else.
There have been moments I’ve just wanted to write, “If you voted for Trump, save me the trouble, disconnect from me, I want nothing more to do with you”. Tempting, but I’d like to be a better person than that. Less ‘knee-jerk’ at least.
That being said – and this is the main crux of this post – if you did vote for him, I’m acutely aware that no words of mine, or anyone else’s, could possibly hope to reach you.
What I mean by that is this. His astonishing list of transgressions have been on full display for all of us to see for a decade, so to pick any particular item from that list and point it out to you would be utterly futile, because surely you already know.
I could say, “He’s a self-confessed serial sex offender”, but you already know that, we all know that, so it must not matter to you.
I could remind you that he was found liable for rape by a jury, but you remember that anyway, and it obviously doesn’t matter to you.
I could say, “He thinks climate change is a hoax, he’ll remove the US from all efforts to curb carbon emissions”, but you already know that too and you voted for him regardless, so that clearly doesn’t matter to you either.
I could assert the glaringly obvious facts that he’s a pathological liar and a malignant narcissist, that he’s known for ripping off contractors, cheating on his wives, stealing from a childhood cancer charity, he bankrupted a casino. It really doesn’t matter which specific thing I could focus on from the extensive list of disgraces and embarrassments, you know all about all of it already, but none of it matters to you. Or at the very least none of that matters to you as much as…what?
The price of eggs? The cost of filling your car with gasoline?
You think the guy who bankrupted a casino is going to improve the economy? You think all the respectable economists are wrong and that the guy who clearly doesn’t understand how tariffs work is magically going to save you money?
Out of curiosity, how cheap do eggs have to get in order for you to consider rape as an acceptable compromise?
How much do gas prices have to go down to in order for you to reconcile in your own mind being ’pro life’ when you’re simultaneously happy for women to be refused medical intervention while they’re bleeding to death in a hospital car park? When you’re insistent upon the child victims of incest rape to be forced to give birth to their own father’s child? All because of your god that they don’t even necessarily believe in themselves.
As I write this, I’m fully aware that it won’t scratch the surface of your delusion, so spare us both the wasted energy of the response you maybe formulating in your mind right now. I won’t read it.
We are so fundamentally different on every level, morally in particular, that even the vaguest agreement or common ground seem out of reach. If you don’t already understand that he’s a bad person, I can’t help you see it. I don’t want to be so pedantic as to unfriend, unfollow or block anyone, but I am prepared to, because your support of this despicable human is so selfish and so negatively consequential to others that it’s nigh on impossible to respect you.
The darker side of me, which I’m growing tired of hearing from lately, hopes you personally feel the full force of the decision you’ve made as it all comes crashing down around you. At that point, you’ll be hoping you have sufficiently loyal and patient friends willing to accept your apology.
The lighter side of me hopes that someday, somehow, you’ll evolve sufficiently to be capable of feeling the shame and embarrassment befitting of your recent choice, but sincerely and regretfully, I doubt you ever will.
To the rest of you, in the US and globally, I’m deeply sorry for what we’ve been forced to endure.
I’ve deleted X from my phone and from this point forward it’ll be all animal welfare and conservation.
Love and light "