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Demonize how?


On a regular day, you would be called racists and evils.

You can try an experiment where you say out loud that you vote for Trump in your work place, and you can see how it goes.

People support Democrats visibly at their workplaces, and that is totally fine. But if you support Republicans visibly, you will have a lot of issues at work.

So, if a poller asks you who you would vote for, you would not risk it. You would just say Dems or just avoid the poll altogether.


That's because Trump has said many racist things so the implication is if you vote for him, you must support that too.

It's a weird spot, because most Trump supporters don't really support him. They consider him a liar at worse, and a jokester at best. Telling Trump supporters what Trump has said is almost always met with "well he didn't mean that!"

Why do people vote for someone they don't even believe? Not sure, maybe they hate the other side just that much, or maybe they do believe him but don't want to admit it. Maybe they're hoping deep down Trump really is just joking.


I simply answered the original question: "Demonize how?"

Thank you for adding to the point that you can't let your colleagues know that you voted for Trump. Your work life would be completely fucked.

You are an ideal example. You think Trump supporters are evil. And how do you handle evil people? You make sure they don't succeed in life.


> Your work life would be completely fucked

Not mine, but actually every single company in the US, yours included. I don't know of any companies that tolerate racism or bigotry in general.

I don't think Trump supporters or conservatives are evil at all. I think they're largely radicalized at this point. Most conservatives I meet seem completely unable to voice conservative opinions without resorting to bigotry - this includes our president elect.

There's nothing wrong with conservative opinions and actually everyone is on the same page about that. But can you be pro-life without calling women sluts and whores? Can you be anti-gay without telling people they deserve AIDS? Can you be anti-trans without calling them tra*ies?

For a lot of conservatives, the answer to those questions is no. Okay, then the next question is - is that type of behavior allowed at work? Of course not.

So put the pieces together yourself - where does that leave those people? This isn't a rhetorical question.




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