Posted on 02/07/2017 4:38:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Burning passions over Donald Trump's presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide. For Gayle McCormick, it is particularly wrenching: she has separated from her husband of 22 years.
The retired California prison guard, a self-described "Democrat leaning toward socialist," was stunned when her husband casually mentioned during a lunch with friends last year that he planned to vote for Trump a revelation she described as a "deal breaker."
"It totally undid me that he could vote for Trump," said McCormick, 73, who had not thought of leaving the conservative Republican before but felt "betrayed" by his support for Trump.
"I felt like I had been fooling myself," she said. "It opened up areas between us I had not faced before. I realized how far I had gone in my life to accept things I would have never accepted when I was younger."
Three months after the most divisive election in modern U.S. politics fractured families and upended relationships, a number of Americans say the emotional wounds are as raw as ever and show few signs of healing....
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...and that when you give women power, as we have seen in Western societies, it is like letting a child drive a car. That car is going to inevitably be driven into a wall or off a cliff.
/// your dismissal of 6000 years of western culture and its beauties and buildings is terrifying to me. ///
You are right... they did make some pretty buildings.
I say that after the Muslims take over, just elect a US President who will airburst about a thousand neutron bombs over Europe that will kill all the people and leave most of the buildings standing.
Western Civilization doesn’t exist anymore, except perhaps in the US. It has been replaced. There is nothing to save.
I was back home in Chicago some months having oysters at McCormick and Schmidts at the bar. A guy sitting next to me starts it about Trump, and the bar tender is nodding his head in agreement. It was pretty benign, until he said,
“Yeah, I did some work for Trump about ten years ago, setting up a big convention for him at McCormick place etc...When it came time to pay me he stiffed me.”
Then out of the blue, like a reflex, I said...”Oh, F you. I’m sure he did.”
This guy was fairly good size, and immediately backed down, although I wasn’t in his face, just annoyed because I knew he was full of crap.
Anyway, we were watching the Cubs, and that led to us talking about growing up in Chicago, and we actually had a delightful time.
I told him Trump was going to win. He laughed. And I said, you watch he’ll be a great president for all the people.
That, and miscellaneous trashy people that gravitate toward FR. They really are disgusting. Sometimes this place reminds me of a high school locker room. The juveniles fantasizing with their incessant "I'd hit it" or, "guilty/not guilty" nonsense are the worst.
One, in particular, is a prominent poster here, but his infantile posts are nauseating.
After reading your posts, I have come to the conclusion that you should start dating men and drop the women. Both you and the women that are foolish enough to waste their time with you would both be happier.
///// After reading your posts, I have come to the conclusion that you should start dating men and drop the women. Both you and the women that are foolish enough to waste their time with you would both be happier. /////
Why would I want to date men? My sexual preference is for women and I have no interest in sex with men. Since I’m not interested in men, that sort of leaves women by default, since I’m really not into celibacy.
Since society is not going to magically restructure itself to bring back balance and reason to the way men are treated in a family context by society or by women, I have no logical reason to alter my current approach.
And I’m quite happy enough with the current arrangement. And they are both happy with me. If they are happy, then it is really not a waste of their time.
I suspect maybe the PEOPLE who suggest I start dating men ARE the ones who need to go the same sex route, since apparently that is on their mind.
I say that after the Muslims take over, just elect a US President who will airburst about a thousand neutron bombs over Europe that will kill all the people and leave most of the buildings standing.
Western Civilization doesnt exist anymore, except perhaps in the US. It has been replaced. There is nothing to save.
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And the other 4 billion people in this world will see a monster and wipe us out.
SLBM’s disagree.
Islam is the monster. If the other 4 billion tried anything, sub-launched nuclear warheads would take out the other 4 billion.
And I’d rather see Homo sapiens extinct as a species than run by Islam.
Better dead than red.
Better dead than Muslim.
“I am now incapable of falling in love”
Love isn’t something you ‘fall into’. The myth of that was something created but modern humanists to fill their void from lack of God. Listen to any pop song and all you hear is that irrational yearning to fill that void with anything.
Loving a woman is a decision. It is a decision you make every single day to put that person before yourself. Some days the decision is easier to make than others. People that think it is automatic or ‘just happens’ are deluded.
I agree that the brain dead liberals of Europe will go to the gas chambers for their Muslim overlords telling themselves every step of the way, “Well at least I’m not racist”.
That is why I said “romantic love” as it is advertised, is not real, and it isn’t love.
I’ve told my 18 year old, as many people have been deceived about what real love is like by romance movies and books, as have been deceived by porn about what real sex is like.
That guy is brilliant. He probably wanted to spend the rest of his life without kowtowing to that leftist hag.
He just drops in a conversation that he is for Trump and by golly, she is outta there.
He probably offered to help her pack.
He made the rest of his life Great Again!
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