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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

What assumptions am I making?

Trump said "I'm gonna do these horrible things", and people voted for him.
At some point they need to square that away. They voted for someone who's platform included intentionally hurting a lot of innocent/vulnerable people.

They did that for a lot of reasons, and yeah, most of them were probably economic.
I'll give people a pass on not being smart enough to figure out that Trump is never going to deliver the economic part they want/need, because he truly doesn't care about anyone but himself.
But at some point people need to look in the mirror and accept that this is what they signed up for. They gave Trump carte blanche do do as much harm as he wanted. To hurt whoever he wanted, on the promise that he would help them.

Giving them the best possible benefit of the doubt, 70 million people voted for a platform that promised them what they wanted, with the cost being harm to some of the most vulnerable people in the country. Everyone made a conscious decision that that harm was justifiable because they would get what they wanted/needed.

We're in a similar situation in Alberta and Canada.

On one hand I've got PP telling me that he will make my life better, that I'll have more money in my pocket. Danielle Smith is telling me the same thing. But that promise comes with all the baggage of the BS trans rights issues the Danielle Smith is currently doing and PP has definitely nodded at. It's an easy decision for me. I'm not willing to vote for someone who claims they will make my life better if the trade off is letting them harm other, vulnerable people. Will any of that stop me from putting food on the table? No, and I'm grateful to be in that position, but regardless of where we are economically, we need to own up to our choices, and what the implications of them are. Regardless of why you voted for Trump, you also voted for all of the horrible things he's doing.
Trump voters voted for all of the horrible things he's doing. They own all of the horrible things he's doing.

Also bear in mind, an argument could be made that every government promises things that will harm people.
The difference is Donald Trump, and his ilk, aren't promising things that will have a side effect of harming people, they are actively promising to harm people.
That is the promise, harm for harm's sake.
That is, at least in some part, what 70 million people voted for.

Is that worth disowning your parents for?

Or instead to you continue contact in hopes there are opportunities to undo the brainwashing. We are talking about people you in theory love here.