I'll agree with Fuzzy Bear on the screen name/Fuzzy Bean thing. Not cool, and as infuriating as I find his vision for my party (which he didn't even join until recently and now acts like people with my views don't belong), he's clearly a good enough person with his heart at least somewhat in the right place and he doesn't deserve someone doing that to him.
We all like to visit this site, it's one of our hobbies that we all enjoy; think of how much it'd suck to have someone do that to you just because your views weren't popular.
Nothing against Fuzzy Bear, nor RINO Tom, nor any other real Republican avatars on the forum.... and I think I speak my mind freely, even within a pool of Atlas Red shark avatars...
Alas sometimes, there are many minority positions that face ridicule on this forum, that manifests itself most strongly during the primary and national GE seasons, and myself and many others have felt the heat in 2016, and even further back in 2008 and 2012.
This forum will be a much poorer place, if it becomes yet another giant internet echo chamber dominated by parrots and vultures of various political persuasions, as opposed to a place of free speech, mutual respect and dignity, where individuals from a variety of backgrounds .
Honestly, threads like these I normally try to avoid, since it inevitably tends to descend towards the lowest common denominator level.
I posted something about my Republican family members, but while I was writing that the thread turned into a giant cesspool of personal insults and went so OT that if I were a smoking man, would need to take a giant rip, and remember why I normally try to avoid these types of threads.There are "minority positions" that are in the minority because they're unpopular (here) and then there are minority positions that have few advocates because they're outright reprehensible. And that latter group absolutely includes supporting Trump.
I am god damned sick and tired of watching people claim that backing a man who openly and publicly attacks democracy, supports sexual assault, promises war crimes, inflames xenophobia, wants to abolish the first amendment, and who has a decades-long career as a high-rolling con artist who is an ignorant idiot of the highest caliber is somehow acceptable or "just a different point of view".
Clinton was absolutely right to call his supporters "deplorable". Defending or ignoring the disgusting, despicable and vile would-be dictator is reprehensible beyond words and ought to be socially unacceptable.
