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Originally Posted by GChief
I should of qualified my comment a little more, sorry about that. My post was my personnel experience with the group you lump all together with the people your afraid of, they are not all the same, just as all "blue" people are not so************************t overly sensitive assholes. The people I am around everyday all day are for the most part republican's, I am a retired military, have been a defense contractor for the last 17 yrs at the worlds largest Naval Base. The bulk of the local economy is defense related, you are not going to find a group of people more "red" than I work around everyday. The vast majority of these people do not fit your box you are putting them in. Most are just like I am, middle of the road moderates, I lean left on most issues and they lean a little to the right. There are a few, very few, vocal Trumpers around but even their fellow "evil repubs" shout them down when they start talking their stupid shit. This majority, in "my world" are not even close to being what you and others on here label them as.
Back to the root cause, both teams culture war propaganda has been working great at dividing us into teams.
I am sitting here thinking of people I deal with everyday and know fairly well, maybe 1 in 10 is what you describe as a republican, I will even boost your point a little and give you 1 in 5. The other 4 are so afraid of the other team that they just vote party line. For most its an ignorance issue because they have become so disenchanted with politics that they really don't pay much attention anymore, that is a huge problem for both teams. This is why I engage without the insults and name calling, but hey that's just me.
In my world the 6 out of 10 that voted for that idiot are not the evil people you make them out to be. Maybe 2 of 10.
As I have mentioned in other threads, I lurked here for almost 2 yrs before engaging, I see some on the left here being just as unhinged as the people they are bitchin about. Both are the loud minority.
My personal experience just does not jive with the lefts narrative, just like it does not jive with the rights narrative, yours may, I do not know, just giving another POV in a discussion.
And the picture I posted was an ad for their weekly give away, fairly direct marketing to their social media followers. Its completely legal and the woman in the pic is actually a great person that I happen to know. But hey why wouldn't you attack her from just a picture, I expected nothing less from some on here and its to my point.
I have signed up for the weekly give away a few times, O/U shotguns and a few different revolvers.
No minds will be changed and this is just a back and forth of zero value at this point.
Cheers
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Look...I am not interested in befriending, engaging, interacting, or even acknowledging anybody who votes for any office seeker from the party that won't keep it's nose out of my wife's reproductive organs, the party that won't mind its own business regarding the family structure of others, the party tha continually works to violate medical and mental health confidentiality laws, the party that celebrates this country's democratized gun carnage, and the party that will do everything they can to deprive certain American citizens who they see as subhuman, of their right to vote. That's it. That's who you vote for? Fine. Then just get your fascist ass the fuck out of my personal space. I don't give a flying fuck about any white supremacist christian nationalist's disenfranchisement. They've had the run of things and disgraced themselves by sitting back, taking advantage of others, drunk on their racial entitlement for over two hundred years. So they can step the fuck aside, its a plural culture now and becoming more so every day...its not their country anymore
I am not retired military, but I did my six years in The Corps...so I fear nobody.