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In reply to the discussion: I spend a lot of time in the company of Trumpers. I've learned something important. [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)If you're religious, you believe X and Y, even if they're not true and couldn't possibly be true. ("God created the universe in 7 days 6000 years ago."
Usually for the rest of us, this is something we politely ignore, because generally it doesn't really affect us. When it DOES affect us ("God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve! Therefore you can't marry the man you love" , we might try to argue with it ("Wouldn't a compassionate God be for more love?" , but then give up and resort to overpowering them with the law and democracy.
But when they elect someone who demands that they believe in him in the same dumb unquestioning way they believe in Adam and Eve? Well, I think it's time to stop being polite. (And I have been polite for 2 years now, because I felt sorry for them for being so duped and stupid.)
I've been experimenting, when one of those around me (I live in a reddish state) says something Trumpish like that, shrugging and saying, "Well, there's no use arguing with someone who belongs to the cult of Trump. You'll believe him no matter what I say."
What's scary is the number of the nonsenses they believe in now has expanded. Now to love Trump, they have to believe the FBI and the CIA are evil, that Putin is good, that Kim Jong Un writes beautiful letters, that it's good to refuse to pay your debts and to lie on your tax returns, and that women lie all the time.
It's ever-growing, the number of things they have to believe in. So my next response is going to be a very sympathetic, "It must be hard to have to believe in so many bad ideas because Trump told you to. I'm sorry you have to do that."
But I'm not going to argue with them anymore. I'm going to very loudly pity them. "You poor thing. It must be hard to worship Trump and hate everyone else."