Trump Supporters are creating mayhem, with nonsensical made up issues.
They believe that this Christmas, the Left is REALLY UPSET that Santa isn’t gender neutral or female, that gingerbread cookies are ALL male (who is spending time drawing penises on cookies for the holidays?? 😂) That we are offended by anyone wishing us “Merry Christmas”, that we are ALL upset because of songs like “Santa Baby” & “Rudolph”
The worst one? That RB Ginsburg isn’t fighting for an 18 yr Term Limits for Congress ( right now there are NO term limits, & that NEEDS to change) but actually fighting for an “age of consent” law to change age of consent from the varying 16-18 state to state…. To age 12.
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People are actually falling for it. They really believe that an elderly woman is secretly a pedophile that wants age of consent dropped to age 12.
They are now attacking an incredibly strong, powerful, intelligent woman because Trump is TERRIFIED of an 84 yr old woman who just did her job, & voted from her hospital bed after undergoing a surgery to remove cancerous nodules….
There are extreme propaganda articles claiming the is a DANGEROUS RBG cult, that she & her husband are secretly pedophiles, that her “failing” health means she is unfit to serve in Gov.
These are the exact same claims that were used to target Hillary Clinton, divide the liberal vote, & manipulate the general public.
The amount of ridiculous videos claiming that Hillary was unfit due to secret health problems & “Alzheimers” spread like wildfire.
Liberals fell for it.
They really believed (and some STILL DO) that Trump was somehow the Better option for presidency since Sander’s wasn’t the Democratic choice candidate.
Really???
People are too prideful to admit their horrific mistake.
The “I’m GLAD that Hillary didn’t win…. This country would be WORSE off than the current streaming trail of diarrhea spewing from the current administration” crowd.
The only reason anyone on the democratic side would feel this way, is if their lives are privileged enough to NOT be affected by Trump’s administration.
That is a lack of empathy, inability to put oneself into another’s shoes, & an unwillingness to risk one’s own comforts, to fight for other people who had their lives destroyed.
How do we have a normal discussion with a group who is willing to believe nonsense & lies, while ignoring the horrors of the Trump administration by claiming it’s all FAKE?
How do we, as citizens, work together to protect & defend those who are or will be targeted, instead of wearing blinders to block out the pain of others?
The very first step is all of us learning to accurately tell the difference between white supremacist created propaganda meant to divide & create chaos, and real shared online news & facts.
If we see a “meme”, fake news, propaganda, etc pass through one’s social media feed, it is now our responsibility as human beings to report it, spread the real info, & call out every single divide & conquer technique.
Why is this important?
To protect the vulnerable.
A nightmarish example is the young lady who read about a new “diet detox” online that came through her social media feed. The cleanse consists of only drinking/eating water & soy sauce.
Yes, many of us read that, & knew immediately the info is fake.
We aren’t the target.
The people who cannot tell that the information is false, are the target. It’s a “genetic cleansing” technique built on the assumption that anyone “dumb” enough to fall for it, deserves to die, aka an extremely twisted take on “Darwinism” .
The young lady lost her sight, her hearing, & became paralysed due to a sodium overdose. Doctor’s hope she regains her hearing & vision, but she could be paralyzed from the neck down permanently.
I worry about people who this technique targets.
The little old lady who doesn’t know that the information was fake. The teenager fighting an eating disorder. Someone with a MI that cannot tell between truth & a lie that is spread.
We have a responsibility as citizens to protect & defend those who cannot defend them selves.
“Stand up for the stupid,& crazy…..”
Ending this giant-ass rant with the wise words of Walt Whitman.
Every single one of us needs to remember these words, recite them over & over again, share them with our children & youth.
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”