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Update from this post yesterday: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34622756
Trumper has since scrubbed her Facebook page of all things political, including pictures of her husband in a MAGA hat. She is now claiming to never have made political posts.
Transcript:
I'm posting this not to start a debate over politics but just for a generalized statement so please do not come at me or try to start a debate. I do not nor have I ever talked politics for the sheer reason that everyone has an opinion and is absolutely entitled to that opinion; that's why we vote and I am not about to go at it with someone because our beliefs arent the same. I have recently had too many people flooding my text messages or DMs forcing their opinion. I even had one friend end our friendship because I politely stated I do not talk politics and I was not going that rabbit hole with her.
The fact of the matter is like it or not the president is who it is. I have worked for the federal government for 15 years and it is a scary thing right now. [Redacted] also military and we don't know what our jobs will look like in the future. We're rolling with things as they come out and will adjust as needed but a lot of things I receive or read from a lot of posts have somewhat taken me by surprise and do not wish to be apart of it.
These people understand nothing
(Not a response to you lol)
My friend in Talos, everything is political. Saying "X is not political" says that you're privileged enough to not see how X is political.
I feel like people who say things "aren't political" need to go back to like an 11th grade Literature course. These people probably would read Dracula and be like "it's just a story about a guy that bites people THAT'S ALL". Or say animal farm is just about some talking animals.
Really, the failure of public education is having large impacts everywhere. People seem to be bad at analysis. Like when a story has a married straight couple and that's not "political" to this sort of person, but a married queer couple is super "political".
Rather than say that this is a failure of public education, I think it might be more instructed to think of it as the conservative movement succeeding. In many communities, it's considered rude to bring up things that will upset people, and that typically includes political topics. You can't point out that the police chief is running a scam, for example, because that would embarrass the mayor who hired the police chief, and that would make you rude for embarrassing them... That kind of thought, the blind pro establishment view, is a strong part of culture in many areas of the country.
(And I'm using the word conservative here to refer to the people currently in power keeping power, not specifically to refer to the Republican party.)
Conservatives pull that out whenever they are about to go against Trump. They think their opinion will have more weight with other conservatives if they sound less political.
Really? I tend to see this most often when someone says dumb shit they know is indefensible so they can justify not replying
I'm thinking that maybe it's because, having spent years with a "if you're not with us then you must be with them" bubble, really believing it and actively using that "argument" against others, they suddenly find themselves is disagreement with the old us yet not because they agree with them.
That being so, their "I'm not political" is their way of coping with it.
Of course, as many are pointing out, everything is political, but given that these people for years believed a hyper-tribalist and ultra-simplified "it's either us or them" view of everything the idea that everything is politics might be a bit too far ahead for them who have just discovered the hard way that one can have beliefs about how things should be which are neither us nor them.
This makes a lot of sense actually. The tribalism, the Us-vs-Them mentality, the first past the post 2 party system that enables that.
A situation like that simply bursts the whole concept.
That said, this person still doesn't understand that more social politics do not mean "socialism", just that they might have kept their job and/or no need to be scared about their economic future.
If they were capable of learning anything, I suspect the first four years of this fuckstick as president would have taught them…