Forced To Live With An Obnoxious Person

[vulcanlogician]

I hope you feel better getting that off your chest. And though it may be inaccurate to stereotype, you've described like twenty people that I know PERFECTLY from the dirty dishes, to the welfare, to the Trump worship.

Stay sane.

You poor bastards.  I hope you can avoid living with them at least.  Uggg.

I live in a very remote and impoverished area. It may seem counterintuitive that people on government assistance would support Trump. But he offered them a scapegoat (immigrants) and told them that their problems could be easily solved if they just got behind him. And they did.

He told them that they could make something of themselves if the "deck wasn't stacked against them." These people are poor as dirt. The deck really is stacked against them (because there is no opportunity around here unless a corporation decides to come in and use them to death). The promise of opportunity appealed to them so much, they didn't even bother to consider whether Trump was legit or not.

In one sense, these folks get under my skin (did I mention that they are mostly Christian fundamentalists?) But in another sense I see them simply as victims of Trump's emotional manipulation.

I don't live with any of them, no. I need clarity and quiet (and structure) or I go crazy. But some are dear friends. Some are even fledgling Democrats (moderate liberals) who refuse to vote blue because "they be takin' our guns..." Again, victims of manipulation.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's a grievance that's been transformed into a fetish.  Like many such grievances, theres a kernel of truth at the bottom of the cesspit...but whatever relationship between that kernel and reality (and the fetishizers) exists has long since been lost between them.  The south used to be deep blue, but then johnson had to go and lose it.