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My Mother Is the Silent Majority
The silent majority is pretty quiet. Go figure. The masses beaten about the brow, continuously, that they are racist, misogynist, not compassionate, bigots, xxx-phobes… The silent majority is told they are simply wrong, actually simple, ignorant, and unenlightened. We are deplorable, bible thumping, gun toting rubes. That is how the world perceives and loudly proclaims us. Of course we prefer to be silent. My Mom, G-d Bless her. She is 91 years old living in Buffalo, Holy Cow, it gets a lot of snow, NY. She is one of the silent ones for sure, but doesn’t feel like the majority people. She is not normally, nor historically, a fearful women.
She has traveled the world, taught English in Japan, was robbed while a bank teller, and testified against him despite threats that she would be killed, worked as an RN in a psych ward. She was an international tour guide and travel agent. and that is only 20% of her amazing journey. Yet she is scared to admit she supports Donald Trump. Her lifelong friends Hate (with a capital “H”) the president. In their perception he is an XXXist. and if you support him you also must be an XXXist. (there are to many xxxists to list, but be sure, that if you support Donald Trump, you are many of them! )
Her advice: She never brings up or discusses anything political even though her friends often do, and she opts to remain silent about her beliefs, passions and moral limits. She remains silent because of her fear of the vitriol and venom that would be heaped upon her by the friends and neighbors if they knew… Dad has been dead now for 11 years. She needs her friends support and friendship more than she needs political acquiescence. She continues to live in the 1 acre lot ranch home, which I and elder sibs were born in . She relies on these church and neighbor friends since we kids are gone geographically. They are good people, they help shovel the driveway, bring her mail in from the cold. But she fears she would likely be shunned by these lifelong friends, if she were to reveal her passion for DJT. Her simple advice, don’t tell them.
I can’t live the same way. It is important – nay, it is critical to my health and mental status to know that there are others, who share and support some of my views. So thank you Ricochetti, for letting me know I do not stand alone, That not only do many people share my thoughts, but there is a number of you well scarred from the battles from voicing your beliefs. Thank you for the testament to your church and country, and for being a sanity check while I wade through my daily battles.
respectfully
Nohaaj.
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The thing is. Being a Trump supporter by definition makes you a racist, sexist, homophobic person with tendencies of rage. You may not be removed for it, but chances are you will for something. Any of the protected classes can #metoo you.
You see how that worked for Rush. Looks like they got to him and he is dying from lung cancer.
My wife works for the feds. If they thought she was a Republican it would be the kiss of death. The few that let their non Lefty feeling show are dump into garbage jobs until they quit or some sort of racist / sexist thing gets them removed.
@billnelson
Besides some of the weird things that occurred under his Administration, I am hearing the entire Bush family supports the notions of Global Warming.
Of course, it makes sense for them to do this, as if anyone can make money out of it, it will be the large firms, huge government bureaucracies, and the Gores, Clintons and Bush family that will laugh all the way to the bank.
I have no idea which Bushes believe what about global warming. But I know it ticks me off when people on the left say that everyone knows man-made global warming is real and the people who pretend to be skeptical are only saying what they say because it is in their financial interest. I find it equally offensive to suggest that anyone who does believe in man-made global warming must be doing it out of financial interest. Isn’t it possible that people — yes, even rich people — can disagree because they honestly have intellectual disagreements, not because it’s a cover for their nefarious money-grubbing?
In theory, yes. There are also other possibilities that I’d rate more likely than either intellectual disagreement or nefarious money-grubbing.
I suspect my co-workers know my political affiliation. I wear a NRA cap to work, I have small American flags on my desk and one framed on the wall. Two framed sayings, “An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject.”, and “In 1775, Benjamin Franklin wrote this phrase—“Those who would trade liberty for a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety.”, keep the flag company. A Democrat certainly wouldn’t be displaying these items. Of course, I live almost at the halfway point between the coasts, so I must be one of the proud deplorables!
Franklin was specifically addressing an issue relative to taxes which involved the Penn family. Though I believe he would also be a supporter of the 2nd amendment. Franklin was a member of the constitutional convention which approved the constitution. He had a wonderful statement on how he didn’t like everything but accepted the work as a whole. And with 3 delegates not signing the document due to its lack of a Bill of Rights, I suspect that Franklin supported the activity as he was quite keen on press freedoms.
Of course it is. When the outcome of an election is so important, the government has too much power.
I feel for you guys. Everyone in our office is a right-wing nut job. We’d mock a leftist unmercifully. When it comes to politics, we mostly point and laugh at the latest leftist brouhaha.