Guest post: Those Trump voters we’re supposed to respect
Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey on It’s the sense of entitlement.
Here are some more of those Trump voters we’re supposed to respect.
People who believe in a literal, physical hell and heaven, and speculate on what appliances they will have in their kitchen in heaven. (But I was assured that Gnu Atheists were arguing against a literal form of religion that nobody actually believes!)
People who dismiss Trump’s vileness on the grounds that “we are not to judge,” but claim that Hillary Clinton is “of Satan.”
People who believe Obama was a Muslim.
People who believe that the annihilation of Christians in America is nigh. (But don’t you dare call them delusional!)
People who believe that when Jesus said “love thy neighbor,” he meant “love thy American neighbor.”
People who believe that they can look around a hospital emergency room and figure out the immigration status of everyone there. (Gee, I wonder what basis they use?) People who are sure that hospital staff — for reasons unknown — are choosing to treat the illegal immigrants first and make Americans wait untreated.
People who think slavery wasn’t that bad — hey, the slaves were fed and clothed!
People who oppose having memorials to the victims of lynchings, because they’re afraid that African-Americans will be motivated to take revenge.
People who think that “Rosa Parks time” was “scary.”
But don’t you dare call them bigoted!
That article is painful to read. (I just read it.)
That’s because they didn’t grow up with them. Is there a Wal-Mart in heaven? My sister believes so (I think that would be hell, myself).
I am so tired of being told we have to “understand” Trump voters. I understand them – I grew up with them. They are my neighbors. I hear nastiness proceed from the mouths of people that are considered (and present) as Very Nice People®. I bear the bruises (no longer visible) of being the child and the sibling of these people.
And if it is so important to “understand” your adversary, then why are there no pundits, not even on the left, who are out there urging Trump voters to “understand” Hillary voters? Because we are seen as somehow the intolerant ones, the ones that will not bend, the ones that will not compromise, the ones that are oppressing and repressing this group of Very Nice People® who only want a good life. We, who have not had any real power at any time in the history of the country, who only ask equality for everyone and not just a chosen few, are the ones who are seen as powerful “extremists” who are “forcing” these poor misunderstood souls into servitude to women, blacks, and Mexicans…oh, and I forgot, giving the entire country to the Muslims. Meanwhile the poor underappreciated folks in flyover country are just working hard (by the way, did I mention we don’t work at all?) to keep the country fed and having no clout AT ALL, just being ignored and mocked and spat on and…mocked and ignored. Yeah, sorry, can’t ignore people who shout so much.