Anyone who has followed my blogs know that I am a proud liberal. I have had lots of conservative friends, but no more, I am done, finished and uncontrollably angry. I can’t have a conversation anymore with someone that thinks we stole the election from that fucking son of a bitch, grifter, pussy grabbing, money laundering, serial adulterer. I can understand if you voted for him once. I can forgive you if you were fooled twice. But supporting him now brands you as someone I do not want in my life. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me three times and I must be Susan Collins.
Some of us bleeding hearts are still trying to reason, understand, walk a mile in your moccasins. But I am not that man. I thought after we invaded Iraq that my country had hit rock bottom.
We were lied to about the weapons of mass destruction and Sadam trying to make a nuclear bomb. Those lies were horrible as thousands of our boy and tens of thousands of Iraqis paid the ultimate price. My belief in the greatest of America was diminished. Now with the revelations of the lead up to the January 6th insurrection my belief in my country in destroyed.
In high school I was required to take a course called Civics. It’s focus was the Constitution. How it came about, why it was amended and maybe next to the Bible how it was the greatest document in history. When you joined the armed forces, were elected to public office, took the pledge of allegiance, you took an oath to that document. I did not vote for Bush or Trump, but they won in compliance with the constitution. I did not like their policies, but they were legally elected. I had no doubt of that. It was a relief to me when old man Biden was elected in what used to be called a landslide. I know he’s old. He is several steps slower than what he was when he was VP. So fucking what! That does not rate impeachment or subverting the result of an election because your man lost.
What makes me sick is that my former conservative friends now repeat the insane idea that Trump really won the election without a shred of evidence. What is fucking wrong with you??? You used to tell me that my ideas were not constitutional. You used to tell me that the laws the law and that no one was above the law. Now I realize that your black and white view of America was a lie. You cannot be trusted.
I made the mistake yesterday in listening to AM right wing radio. I was informed that the election was stolen from tRump and that all that needed to be done was to carefully audit the 2020 results in those six states that were close. That has pretty much been done two years ago. No fraud, no extra votes for the man who tried to overthrow the constitution that you right wing patriots carried around a copy of in your shirt pocket right next to your tin of snuff. I quickly switched stations to listen to Sean Hannity complain about the lack of voter ID required. He wanted everyone to have a picture ID to vote and to vote only on election day in person at a polling station. This makes it more difficult to vote. And as has been shown on numerous occasions that there are more polling locations and voting booths in republican areas than democratic ones. My conclusion for this it that the Republican party is trying their damnest to suppress voting to their advantage. Then Republican led states gerrymander voting districts to guarantee their guys win. Does this sound like American exceptionalism to you? If it does than FUCK YOU.
I switched stations one more time and got a rant about the evils of abortion and how Roe vs Wade was unconstitutional. This from the same people who kiss the ring of the orange orangutan who just tried to overthrow the government. So, I repeat. FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.
I still have a few “conservative” friends on Facebook. I patiently read what they have to say but no longer respond. The latest was one of these posts was voicing outrage of some rock band singer who was threatening to renounce his American citizenship and move to a more liberal country. She took it as an insult to her son who was actively serving in the US military. While I think it is stupid to abandon your country over a misguided supreme court ruling, how is this an insult to her son? I have a son who has been in the Navy for 30 years and he wonders what the hell she is insulted by. I wonder why she is not insulted by hundreds of MAGA hat wearing fools who invaded the capital building, beat up police officers and shit on the floor. I wonder why she is not equally insulted by a president who aided and abetted this attack and illegally scammed with his staff to overthrow our government. And finally, why didn’t she mention her outrage that the Texas republican party thinks that their state, a state she move to, has the right to succeed from the United States of America! That truly is an insult to her son.
Where are the conservatives that I use to have stimulating discussions with? I see the same faces, a little older but they look like the same people. What happened? The obvious answer it that they have been secretly replaced in their sleep by space aliens. But a saner answer is that I never really knew them in the first place. They were never truly expressing their opposition to a government taking away their rights. They were expressing their fears that a browning of America was going to take away their white privilege, that gays were going to dilute marriage, that prochoice was going to destroy the God that they have made in their own image, that mask mandates were a conspiracy by medical professionals to neuter them is some unexplained and hideous fashion.
OK. You win. I give up. I cannot reason with you. Goodbye. I wish you well. Jesus may forgive you, but I won’t.