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Why I Voted Trump: A Coming Out Story
Medium ^ | October 22, 2020 | Candace Mercer

Posted on 10/25/2020 12:29:51 PM PDT by Lopeover

“As I began leaving the cult, I began writing of my experiences on Facebook. This was a mistake. My error was thinking that my social capital, my good record, would carry weight and that people would listen to my warnings. I was wrong, I keep using that word as well. If anything, my insider status was more of a threat. My therapist has not been able to help me. I have found solidarity with ex-Mormons. In one year, I have lost 90% of my community in Olympia. I have been shunned by activists, comedians and gamers. I have never had a turnover like this in my life with the exception of cross-country moves.“

(Excerpt) Read more at candacemercer.medium.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 2020election; candacemercer; election2020; electionvote; facebook; fascistbook; landslide; markzuckerberg; medium; trumplandslide; washington; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 10/25/2020 12:29:51 PM PDT by Lopeover
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To: Lopeover

Excerpted paragraph has nothing to do with Trump.

Seems to be anti-Mormon stuff.


2 posted on 10/25/2020 12:34:43 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Here is the beginning:

I will not live in a closet for any reason.

I voted Republican almost a straight ticket for the first time in my life.

I am a progressive artist/writer/activist with an impressive 25+ year record of fighting the good fight on a plethora of issues including abortion clinic escort, rape crisis counselor, regular crisis counselor, a decade in Palestinian Solidarity, holding local police accountable in the shooting of two young black men, homelessness, cannabis and chronic pain advocacy.

In this “stunning and brave” essay I will tell you why I made this decision.


3 posted on 10/25/2020 12:46:32 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: Lopeover

Candice, those people weren’t your friends. F ‘em.


4 posted on 10/25/2020 12:46:34 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: ifinnegan

Not anti-Mormon either.... more of a story of her evolution as to how she escaped liberal group think and once she was free, she found it possible to vote for Republicans.


5 posted on 10/25/2020 12:46:48 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Lopeover

Good post! Thank you.


6 posted on 10/25/2020 12:47:13 PM PDT by Dragonfly
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To: ifinnegan
Excerpted paragraph has nothing to do with Trump.

Seems to be anti-Mormon stuff.

Yes, we don't need that here.

That paragraph came from way at the bottom of the article, and was not a major point the author was trying to make.

Here are some paragraphs from the top of the article that capture the gist:

Thankfully, this is the most cringe worthy action I took, my humanity was strong enough to never break with my core values and become a full on SJW bully. I had my moments though. I am not innocent. To those who I may have caused offense, this is my apology.

I got the Trump Derangement Syndrome bad. I mean BAD. I was locked on MSNBC, breathless with each new horror. To be fair, Trump was a wild card, and there was no precedent for dealing with such. Would democracy hold? Would my friends and I be in danger? Would he cut my safety net? Did he collude with the Russians? We did not have answers and uncertainty was destabilizing and anxiety provoking.

Plus I am from New York. My dislike of Trump goes back to the SPY era of the 1980s. It was easy to catch the mind virus. And the crowds, not gonna lie, they scared me. I knew some of it was performance art on Trump’s part, and could dismiss that, but when I saw the crowds shouting “Lock her up!” it was disturbing on a gut level.

I wondered why it seemed my country was committing suicide. I had no idea how people could embrace this man and these ugly ideas. At the same time, I knew, as a matter of fact, that there was no way that 50% of the country were racists. It just did not make sense.

7 posted on 10/25/2020 12:47:34 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: ifinnegan

Nope, a liberal transitioning out of the Liberal plantation


8 posted on 10/25/2020 12:54:39 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Lopeover

Why pick that portion for the excerpt?


9 posted on 10/25/2020 12:56:26 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Amazing to me what “issues” these people find important.


10 posted on 10/25/2020 12:56:40 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ifinnegan

BEST ESSAY EVER!


11 posted on 10/25/2020 12:57:06 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

The core of her realization:

“I now live in Olympia, WA which, until recently, was a lovely little progressive bubble where I did not really encounter conservatives in my circles outside of the weed subculture. It is a mono-culture and I am living the end result of late stage far left policies. That cozy bubble has turned into a dystopian dome.”

She describes herself as “...one of the most marginalized people there is, the only category I do not check is race, but even then, I come from the trailer park. I am extremely low income, fully disabled with moderate to severe chronic pain+ for 20+ years, mentally ill, gender nonconforming, LGBTQ, a college dropout and someone who depends fully on the safety net for her survival.”

Bottom line, when a homeless camp set up “behind her house” she saw the deplorable conditions and challenged the city’s policy. When she questioned the party line, her SJW, progressive, PC friends became petty tyrants who preached diversity while demanding conformity. The only people who welcomed her were the people she thought hated her, conservatives and Trump supporters.


12 posted on 10/25/2020 12:59:33 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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Here's what did it to her:
In a desire to be overly respectful for all lifestyles, and normalizing all behaviors even antisocial ones, we are allowing harm. I formulated this hypothesis two years ago, as Olympia began to experience an explosion of homeless camps our Council Member calls “informal settlements.” These encampments are an affront to human dignity.

I was forced to learn about this issue when a camp with over fifty residents set up behind my house.

ML/NJ
13 posted on 10/25/2020 1:09:19 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Lopeover

David Horowitz. Red diaper baby with lengthy leftist literary history. He saw the light after the murder of one of people he helped get hired for the Black Panthers. I read his book ‘Radical Son’ about how he changed and , of course , lost his old friends.


14 posted on 10/25/2020 1:12:50 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Lopeover

very interesting article


15 posted on 10/25/2020 1:18:19 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Lopeover
Many will blame Trump for causing these extreme reactions. I reject that line of thinking. I believe in free will, and Trump is not making anybody take extreme actions. If he is, that is mental illness and/or personality disorders. Your behavior is up to you. You choose whether to meet life with love or hate.

So true.

16 posted on 10/25/2020 1:18:38 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ifinnegan

She only mentioned Mormonism in passing and that’s all you can get out of her essay???

Did you even read it?


17 posted on 10/25/2020 1:20:23 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Lopeover

this was an incredible article and so were the comments attached to it...


18 posted on 10/25/2020 1:24:34 PM PDT by terart
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To: Lopeover
Trump has more or less governed from the center, staying somewhat true to his New York liberal roots.

She's not quite there yet, but glad she's making the journey!

19 posted on 10/25/2020 1:25:45 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: ifinnegan

The ex Mormon was just one line in lengthy article. I would say to read the whole thing.

My saying is that it takes two oars to steer the rowboat. We need a “Left” and a “Right” to counter-balance the natural tendencies of each group. Lefty might have a great idea for a product, but it takes the “Righty” to actually run the company...if you catch the drift.

I don’t care that there are liberals. We need them to help ensure that all members of the community are in the boat—that’s fine. But the conservative is there to make certain that the plans running efficiently. That might have been the original roles, but somehow over the last 30 years, the liberal has become the Lefty/progressive that stifles the very freedoms it once craved. Now conservatives find themselves in the role of fighting to retain the barest of freedoms as well as trying to advance the whole concept of freedom elsewhere.

Anyway, glad she is on board and welcome her to her journey of mental freedom.


20 posted on 10/25/2020 1:46:44 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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