Strange, we haven't seen that at all. Though I think most around me are Boomer-Cons and genuine Romney voters (and a few reformed ones). The kind that think Ted Cruz is a bit radical.
I despise them.
No, but, as such, I think there's been no violence because they're not the type to consider it.
I'm in one of those "hard purple" areas, wherein the next town over is rural farmers and in town itself is full of the type of jobs that are basically pure Red voters, but its also full of Mexicans and the giant university folks (and those that they bring).
So I get the full gamut. Even my own two neighbors are a "OFFENDED LIBERAL?!?!" Trump guy and someone who has in the past year flown Ukraine, Gay, and now Palestine's flag.
Its actually quite amusing to see shifts in public conscienceness happen in real time from it. Like seeing the TDS guy at work go from bullying other people into agreeing with him, to watching his every Media Fed Line get laughed off by complete normies.
Have you also noticed a shift of people being more openly supportive of Trump?
It's taken years, but I think the old "secretly a Trump voter thing because they are intimidated by Leftists" may be actually wayning. There's certainly less generalized political violence against Trump supporters now than there was in 2016 and 2020.
Absolutely. Me and a bunch of guys at work today were literally openly talking about being Conservative and voting for him, despite having never talked politics before to know it was "safe" to do so.
I think there has been a very powerful shift in the Leftist tactic of making Righties feel isolated and odd man out, and thereby never feeling like they could even speak up. Now it seems people know that they aren't outnumbered and can't be shouted down with -ist labels so easily.
And in my personal experience, a lot of these conversations are literally opening on mockery of Kamala. Like she is so bad that people feel compelled to point it out and laugh at her, which then leads to that realization that we were all Trump voting anyway.
Interesting. Around me, it's still mostly "keep politics out of it" just because it can be such a toxic environment. The polarization is just serious enough that we can't even agree on the same shit. I think I mentioned before that I still have friends that think Trump explicitly staged his assassination.
Having normal conversations with people that captured is genuinely difficult, because you quickly see that they are fully comfortable with joking about their own narrative, and just assumed that you (like everyone they see on television) hold the same opinion.
IIRC I just had one recently where I was talking about the way that the Assyrian Empire basically eviscerated their enemies (mass killings, full scale city razing, complete ethnic cleansing, possibly a genocide, and at one point they literally imprisoned a god), and they were like: "sounds what the Americans did to black people." ... I was just so taken aback by the level of insane hyperbole on that comment, even as a joke, that I just tried to change the subject to something more personal. If we can't agree that blacks were not systematically genocided in a fire-bombing campaign in the US, then we really don't have anything we can agree upon.
BUT, at least we're having fewer instances of interpersonal political violence.
Strange, we haven't seen that at all. Though I think most around me are Boomer-Cons and genuine Romney voters (and a few reformed ones). The kind that think Ted Cruz is a bit radical.
I despise them.
No, but, as such, I think there's been no violence because they're not the type to consider it.
I'm in one of those "hard purple" areas, wherein the next town over is rural farmers and in town itself is full of the type of jobs that are basically pure Red voters, but its also full of Mexicans and the giant university folks (and those that they bring).
So I get the full gamut. Even my own two neighbors are a "OFFENDED LIBERAL?!?!" Trump guy and someone who has in the past year flown Ukraine, Gay, and now Palestine's flag.
Its actually quite amusing to see shifts in public conscienceness happen in real time from it. Like seeing the TDS guy at work go from bullying other people into agreeing with him, to watching his every Media Fed Line get laughed off by complete normies.
Have you also noticed a shift of people being more openly supportive of Trump?
It's taken years, but I think the old "secretly a Trump voter thing because they are intimidated by Leftists" may be actually wayning. There's certainly less generalized political violence against Trump supporters now than there was in 2016 and 2020.
Absolutely. Me and a bunch of guys at work today were literally openly talking about being Conservative and voting for him, despite having never talked politics before to know it was "safe" to do so.
I think there has been a very powerful shift in the Leftist tactic of making Righties feel isolated and odd man out, and thereby never feeling like they could even speak up. Now it seems people know that they aren't outnumbered and can't be shouted down with -ist labels so easily.
And in my personal experience, a lot of these conversations are literally opening on mockery of Kamala. Like she is so bad that people feel compelled to point it out and laugh at her, which then leads to that realization that we were all Trump voting anyway.
Interesting. Around me, it's still mostly "keep politics out of it" just because it can be such a toxic environment. The polarization is just serious enough that we can't even agree on the same shit. I think I mentioned before that I still have friends that think Trump explicitly staged his assassination.
Having normal conversations with people that captured is genuinely difficult, because you quickly see that they are fully comfortable with joking about their own narrative, and just assumed that you (like everyone they see on television) hold the same opinion.
IIRC I just had one recently where I was talking about the way that the Assyrian Empire basically eviscerated their enemies (mass killings, full scale city razing, complete ethnic cleansing, possibly a genocide, and at one point they literally imprisoned a god), and they were like: "sounds what the Americans did to black people." ... I was just so taken aback by the level of insane hyperbole on that comment, even as a joke, that I just tried to change the subject to something more personal. If we can't agree that blacks were not systematically genocided in a fire-bombing campaign in the US, then we really don't have anything we can agree upon.
BUT, at least we're having fewer instances of interpersonal political violence.