Posted on 12/07/2020 9:11:36 AM PST by far sider
I have seen various versions of emails like this.
Whether your best man actually wrote his own version of “why I hate Trump”, I do not know.
My own philosophy on politics is this:
1. “Ignore those who only want to waste my time engaging in useless debate.”
2. “Find others who agree with me and do things to support them”
“My depression has everything to do with the damage that has been done to this country in the last 4 years. I’ve been driven from the Republican party because of what it has become and the principles it has abandoned...”
Trump is the closest thing we’ve had to President Reagan, ever.
I would imagine he was a Reagan fan, right?
Tell Brian that he has been fed lies non-stop about President Trump. His being a McCain republican explains a lot. Actually, just ignore him. You can’t fix those who refuse to see the truth.
I would start my reply by saying “As hard as it might be for you to accept this, you’ve been lied to.... and as painful as the truth might be to accept, that is in fact the first step to pull out of a depressed state. Always remember this... John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
After that, I’d keep it short and right to the point...
Ballots don’t matter now. That was our peaceful solution to solve these problems, but ... That is now off the table.
Founding Father’s should have built in Term Limits at the beginning as that eliminates career politicians who go to Washington to do good and end up doing very well at our expense representing themselves and not we the people.
What he saw was a president mocking people with power, the press, entertainment figures, political figures and gov’t officials. What I am sure he missed in Biden was a man who mocks ordinary Americans who ask him questions. I never saw Trump do that. Only by watching CNN and reading Atlantic and listening to neverTrumpers would he come away with believing Trump wanted to divide this country. He totally missed the outreach to Latinos, Blacks, others which belied the false white supremacy narrative. Trump’s “nationalism” is an understanding that America became hollowed out, as made crystal clear with the scrabbling over Covid for PPE, ventilators, paper products, core pharmaceuticals. Trump understands a strong America is best for the world, that we should protect what makes us Americans and not allow our nation to be diluted into a pseudo European socialist economy intervening all over the world. No “nationalist” in the stereotype sense would have pursued peace as vigorously as he has with trying to engage North Korea, the mideast deals from the Abraham accords and normalization between Serbia and Kosovo. We should not be taken advantage by special interests who value cheap foreign labor over skilled and unskilled American workers. We should not disadvantage ourselves with uncompetitive corporate tax rates. We should not let ourselves be taken advantage of when it comes to mutual defense agreements like NATO. Wealthy nations should pay their fair share and provide for their own defense. It should not fall on the backs of Americans. That’s what McCain and the Bushes were about. A dangerous form of globalism that neglected ourselves. Trump preferred bilateral agreements.
What he saw was a president mocking people with power, the press, entertainment figures, political figures and gov’t officials. What I am sure he missed in Biden was a man who mocks ordinary Americans who ask him questions. I never saw Trump do that. Only by watching CNN and reading Atlantic and listening to neverTrumpers would he come away with believing Trump wanted to divide this country. He totally missed the outreach to Latinos, Blacks, others which belied the false white supremacy narrative.
Trump’s “nationalism” is an understanding that America became hollowed out, as made crystal clear with the scrabbling over Covid for PPE, ventilators, paper products, core pharmaceuticals. Trump understands a strong America is best for the world, that we should protect what makes us Americans and not allow our nation to be diluted into a pseudo European socialist economy intervening all over the world. No “nationalist” in the stereotype sense would have pursued peace as vigorously as he has with trying to engage North Korea, the mideast deals from the Abraham accords and normalization between Serbia and Kosovo.
We should not be taken advantage by special interests who value cheap foreign labor over skilled and unskilled American workers. We should not disadvantage ourselves with uncompetitive corporate tax rates. We should not let ourselves be taken advantage of when it comes to mutual defense agreements like NATO. Wealthy nations should pay their fair share and provide for their own defense. It should not fall on the backs of Americans.
That’s what McCain and the Bushes were about. A dangerous form of globalism that neglected ourselves. Trump preferred bilateral agreements.
“I’ve been driven from the Republican party because of what it has become and the principles it has abandoned.”
Gotta agree with this, but for a completely different reason!
The Republican party has largely become a party of Rinos. They should be called the GAGAG
“Go along, get along gang.”
The “please oh please invite me to your DC cocktail party” gang.
They’ve ALWAYS been hated by the Dems and now their own constituents hate them.
Trump needs to join the Libertarian party.
No wonder your friend is suffering depression.
Send your friend this link
https://lc.org/PDFs/Trump.Accomplishments.FINAL.pdf
and ask him which one of these he doesn’t like.
As I tell my kids, I’m not trying to change your mind or convince you to think a certain way, I just want to make sure you’re aware of these things. If you haven’t heard about them, your sources of “news” are not serving you well.
Good luck.
Did you post to the right thread? Your comments seem to have no relevance to this discussion.
‘The Atlantic’...LOL
“It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.”
Voltaire
Ah, but do you really doubt for a second this “McCain Republican” didn’t want lots of new (unnecessary) wars and no borders globalism?
I don’t know what to say to these people. Honestly. They simply refuse to see that the left has gone full bore communist, and have a weird trust in the federal government. They are the typical “good citizen”.
All we can really do is pray and try to shine a little light in their eyes and hope they come around.
A friend wouldn’t have sent you this letter.
But a RINO/Democrat in training would.
"What I see is: A man who wants to divide the country, who mocks people, who is only interested in himself."How could the friend have omitted "RACIST"? That's usually the #1 reason. I'm always amazed people come away with this impression of Trump. I think it shows easily manipulated, childish minds incapable of critical thought.
Your friend has been brainwashed like a Jehovah’s Witness and will likely cut you out of his life they do if you won’t convert.
P.S. This sounds like a letter a woman would write, full of feeeelings.
This sort of delusional insanity is how I know the left-wing propaganda media still has way too much power and influence. I’m just glad that Trump drove the anti-American globalist neo-cons (largely) out of the party. It’s one of the best things he did. He’s done a lot to turn the GOP into the pro-American, pro-worker, anti-elitist, pro-Christian party of financial success, common sense solutions, and peace through strength. He has also made the party more inclusive and diverse.
Republicans don’t need grossly dishonest, anti-American globalist, DNC talking point propagandists who should have been in the Democrat Party all along (and to think the letter writer even believes evangelicals who came out in absolutely unprecedented numbers for Trump are in some sort of anti-Trump coalition—talk about being delusional).
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