I gotta agree with the people saying "fuck them." I mean, to me it's easier to want to keep civility, easier to skip the arguments with family, just easier to stop giving a fuck, but that's because I don't have any skin in the game, which I imagine is also the case for a lot of people who want to stick up for some of these Trump voters. But at this point I feel we have to face facts.
There's a great deal of overlap between the "Blue lives matter" group, people that are anti sports protests, for the display of the Confederate Flag, for the display of Confederate Monuments even when they're depicting patently false historical events, support State's Rights to the point they think slavery should be allowed though they all make it a point to express how horrible they think it'd be if a State decided to legalize slavery, continue to support voter laws that target minorities and city dwellers disproportionately, support a Muslim ban on travel to the United States, want closed borders, are now on record supporting separating child refugees from family members for both blackmail purposes and as a signal AND those who support Donald Trump. I mean, if I were to Venn Diagram all those things it'd just be a fucking single circle. I really don't think we have the luxury of playing nice any longer now that they're outright dehumanizing people, doing things previously thought cruel and getting away with it. Now I know this current strain of white nationalism isn't outright Nazism, but, it's important to remember the Nazis didn't have a majority of the vote either. If my fellow white citizens are hell bent on pursuing this course I'd like them to know in advance that they have to choose, choose between further going down that path versus or continuing to enjoy a civil society, continue having certain friends and family in their lives, that we're not all just going to hang out casually together at Starbucks like nothing's wrong as they fuck over people any longer. Hell, maybe them seeing that it is a choice they have to make will do some good now rather than instilling in them the idea, well I hope it's just an idea, that they can kidnap kids and whisk them around the country to secret sites and whatever they plan to do next and those of us who dissent will be nice to them all the same. Maybe enough of them can choose civility?
