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In reply to the discussion: Bernie urges respect for Trump supporters [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)Maybe this is nuts, but the Cartman/Heidi storyline in Season 21 of South Park pointed something out about human nature, and was brought home of course by having a character say "No, I think we're ALL dating Cartman right now."
But the more a person is attacked and called stupid for doing something as stupid as voting for Trump or dating an emotionally manipulate jackass, people dig in. They had a scene where Heidi's friends, who had all been begging her to leave Cartman, kept on and on dissing him even after she left him, which she ended up taking as an attack on her intelligence... and went back to Cartman.
Essentially, I have been leaving my Trump regretting friends to say what they dislike and why, and not berate them for voting for the jackass, and I'm not engaging non-regretters yet about it. If they start showing remorse, I just let them say it without saying "I told you so".
It's *totally* strategic. First, I live in a conservative area which means yes, I have conservative friends/family. I don't want to bang my head against the wall with those who don't yet realize their error and waste my breath. I also want them to feel like they CAN talk to me about their regrets. A few already have said it themselves that they were idiots for letting CDS make them vote for someone so wildly incompetent. I am hopeful more will.. And if they don't, well, I'm using my energies for more constructive things, like motivating Dems to register and vote.