‘Navigating relationships with loved ones who have chosen to support Donald Trump … isn’t just difficult. It feels unbearable’
Progressives really love to waddle in victimhood, don’t they?
The Palestinians and their sympathizers are contemporary Exhibit A. Who else in the world can start, and then lose, three major conflicts (in addition to numerous smaller ones), turn down an offer of their own state after the losses, and most recently massacre 1,200 innocent civilians — and want everyone to feel sorry for them?
And supposedly educated people buy it.
We all know there’s a segment of the historically marginalized who make a living out of maintaining “oppression.” There’ll always be those who Booker T. Washington said “make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships […] before the public.”
These folks would have us believe all things racial, religious, sexual, etc. haven’t improved one iota since 1776.
Donald Trump’s second election in November has thrown the oppressionists into a real quandary. This supposed racist/sexist/homophobe/everything-bigot got more minority votes than any Republican candidate in a generation, especially Hispanics.
Skeedaddling from the Democrat Party plantation, so to speak, is a big no-no, and Hispanics heard about it.
The LGBTQ+ community is particularly troubled by Trump’s return to power. Last month, American University student Urjita Mainali wrote that “it feels like an air of dread has settled across this community that cannot be shaken.”
Mainali lists a litany of items we’ve all heard before, but without actual context. For example, she claims “legislators and hate groups across the country (and world) have gone so far as to call for the eradication of the trans community,” that “homophobia and transphobia are pervasive,” and notes how a trans friend told her his “gender-affirming surgery [was] lifesaving.”
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The (gay) former head of the National Education Association’s Delaware affiliate went even further. In a late December op-ed, Mike Matthews (pictured) told off his Trump-voting family and friends … but said it all comes from “love”:
Politics, we’re told, shouldn’t come between family and friends. But what happens when political choices are no longer about abstract debates over taxes or education policies, but instead strike at the very core of human dignity, rights and justice? For me, and for many others, navigating relationships with loved ones who have chosen to support Donald Trump — once, twice or perhaps again in 2024 — isn’t just difficult. It feels unbearable.
Matthews, whose husband is president of a northern Delaware school district board, claims the election goes beyond “petty disagreements,” it’s a matter of his (and his community’s) “mental and emotional well-being.”
He offers up all of Trump’s alleged transgressions (impeached twice, “found liable for sexual abuse,” “facing 91 criminal charges”), and says a vote for the incoming 47th president signals “a troubling disregard for the humanity of others — immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, women and other vulnerable groups.”
Like Mainali, Matthews claims Trump had (and will) “roll back protections for transgender students.”
The truth, however, is that the vast majority of ordinary Americans could care less if their adult neighbor loves someone of the same sex, is a dude who likes to dress up as a chick and dance at a drag show, or once was a man who got “gender-affirming” surgery to live as a woman.
Mainali’s and Matthews’s complaints about “legislators and hate groups across the country” and “rolling back protections for transgender students” actually are legitimate concerns of these vast majority of ordinary Americans: preventing “gender-affirming” surgeries for minors, keeping minors away from adult-themed drag shows, keeping sexually explicit books in school libraries away from minors, and keeping biological men out of real women’s sports competitions.
If these perfectly valid issues somehow prevent Mainali’s “joy” and Matthews’ “peace, values,” and “well-being,” then maybe, just maybe, the problem is … them.
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