Almost half of America voted for a mass murderer

[Cyrano]

American deaths from Covid-19 are approaching a quarter of a million.

While some would have died, one man is responsible for this virtually unimaginable number of deaths.

Yet, close to half this country voted for that beast.

Ignorance is one thing. Absolute stupidity and not giving a fuck about other human beings is something else.

Dear fellow Americans who voted for Trump and Republicans: I no longer give a damn about you. I don't care if you live or die. You've used up my last ounce of sympathy/empathy. I despise your so-called "values," and I resent having to share this world with you. My hope is that you are devoured by your own hatreds.

[Newest Reality]

1. You bet.

However, we may have gotten a dose of what has always been there and this monster brought to the surface for all to see. A revelation like that is startling and maybe even a wake up call about our assumptions.

I can't help but consider the words of Nietzche though. When I look in a mirror, I don't want to see a Picture of Dorian Gray, so to speak. It is easy to go that route when we are surrounded by scoundrels and fools in a culture of consumerism and greed.

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

[samsingh]

2. yes and someone who arguably works for foreign leaders

[rzemanfl]

3. "Arguably?" You are a very generous writer. n/t

[samsingh]

4. just keeping it libel free

[rzemanfl]

5. If the so-called President of these so-called United States is not a public figure

the treasonous motherfucker can sue my sorry septuagenarian ass.

[samsingh]

7. yes

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Mostly white evangelicals again.

And they came out in force, comprising about 42% of the white voters.

Religion strongly motivates some people, as shown throughout history, crazy-thinking or not.

[AirmensMom]

8. And I'm related to about half of them.

My husband's family are such batshit religious wackos that it's not funny. He has tried to talk reason with one brother, but all he gets is that they'll all go to hell if they vote for Democrats. Time to start taxing churches!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. One of my sisters is one.

She eagerly cast her vote for Trump, in-person, the same day that she received her absentee ballot in the mail. She's NOT a mean, racist-type, but she very obediently follows the directions of her religious leaders. (She's just very adept at putting on "blinders" for anything that could shake her weird ideas.)

I avoid politics with her because it's been proven pointless in the past. Plus she was basically a surrogate mother for me when I was a toddler, since our mother wasn't very touchy-feely with her kids (but a great provider in other ways), so I just can't throw her away.

Agree about taxing them! I think those kinds of proposals are how evangelical Jimmy Carter and the Democrats lost them years ago to Reagan, but screw it. They're basically married to the Republican party now anyway.