When Trump gets reelected, I expect mass suicides and riots by the next morning at this point.
There will definitely be rioting. But as for suicides, I put anybody who threatens to kill themselves when faced with four more years of Trump in he same camp as those who claim they're going to leave the country. How many people are still here, who in 2016 threatened to move to Canada, Australia, or other bastions of progressivism should the Orange Menace get elected? Pretty much fucking all of them, because the complicated reality of leaving turned out to be far more than they were up for. So the same goes for offing oneself. Weighing the gravity and permanence of such an act against simply surviving another four years and hoping things change is a no-brainer. They're not going to do it. And the tiny number who actually do so are going to be people who are already mentally afflicted, suffering from suicidal ideation, and would eventually have killed themselves, Trump or no Trump.
I hope this is more of a regional or upper middle class white thing and not something purely widespread.
I had another invitation, way out in the suburbs, and I suspect that, had I gone (and I now wish I had), the conversation would have been much more civil, and possibly avoided politics altogether. If my city is vivid blue, those suburbs are at least a bluish violet; they contain quite a few Republicans, but also a lot of lifelong Democrats who still vote along party lines by default, out of habit, despite their own political beliefs having been shoved into the center, or even slightly to the right. The number of extremely rabid "progressive" Democrats I encounter in the city tend to thin out once I leave it, with suburbanites being much more moderate (though they still hate Trump).
Here's something I've been thinking about a lot, especially in the last year:
When you've identified yourself as a "liberal" all your voting life, and have thus always been aligned with the Democratic party, and--perhaps most importantly--viewed yourself as in fundamental opposition to conservatives/Republicans, it takes a serious wake-up call to realize that you are no longer aligned with what is even considered "liberal," much less the Democratic party platform. And it takes an even bigger leap to discard your identity as "liberal Democrat," especially given that there is really no other clear political identity you can adopt. Centrist? That seems so wishy-washy. Classical liberal? Too libertarian for most. And even the term "liberal" isn't such a great option any more, given how progressives have started using "liberal" as a slur against leftward-leaning people who are nonetheless too white, too complacent, and not woke enough (suburban boomers and GenXers, in other words).
This is the divide within the Democratic party that I almost never see addressed--between the increasingly radical and authoritarian "progressives," fueled by identity politics, who are open in their contempt for rural people and the working class, and think free speech is dangerous; and older "liberals," who may have been very far to the left back in the day, but have been ruthlessly shoved into the center as the Overton Window has shifted over the last decade or so.
A lot of the older Democrats I meet, especially once I get out of the city, fall into the latter category, and are increasingly seen as "impure" elements within their own party--yet they simply can't let go of being Democrats. There hasn't yet been a single, defining incident that has alienated them from the party, and forced them to confront he fact that it no longer represents their ideals. These voters held their noses and turned out for Hillary Clinton in 2016 only because there was no way they ever would have voted for a Republican, even one (such as Mitt Romney) who seemed a more palatable and benign option than Trump. To these voters, Republicans have always been the "bad guys"; never mind that the Overton Window has shifted for them, too--nobody's actively trying to legislate against the gays any more, and the once genuinely threatening Religious Right is now a mere shadow of its former self. They're so distracted by their dislike of Trump that they ignore how much more radicalized the Democratic party has become since he got elected--which means they will turn out and vote for just about anybody the Dems care to run, just to get rid of the Orange Menace, even if that means voting for somebody whose position on the issues is even further away from their interests than Donald Trump's.
And yet they'll be just as quick these days to condemn rural and blue-collar Trump voters as uneducated and easily manipulated, while being the equivalent within the Democratic party. Because Republicans are the tyrants. Because Orange Man Bad.
SJW maggots hate Thanksgiving because they have ZERO family (no spouse or kids and their parents/siblings have disowned them for being cunts) and want it ruined since if they have to spend the day drinking a box of whine while eating one day old leftovers because all of the restaurants are closed, then no one should be allowed to have a nice Thanksgiving Day.
They're perpetual adolescents of the obnoxious know-it-all sort, who deeply resent having to sit around and be nice to people who don't share their opinions. And that's because the basis for their opinions is so fragile, they can't stand having them challenged. They're running on indoctrination, on received knowledge--rather than knowledge hard-won by personal experience, and opinions formed by reflecting upon those experiences. There's no backbone to their ideas, so anybody who isn't intimidated by their belligerence and/or contempt can push them over and expose them for how flimsy they are without much effort. And they're terrified of that, so they intentionally stay away from the people most likely to challenge them.
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but...Soros is the answer. in 2014 he dumped $50m into the ACLU through Open Society.
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