Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:13     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
The world goes beyond the tip of your nose. The question is so myopic .... your liberal privilege is showing.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:11     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:They are your typical white folks in MoCo. You just don’t know them until you REALLY know them. They all hide behind their fake smiles/Sunday church services.


The “you’re racist if you vote for the Red Team’s racist over the Blue Team’s racist who through hundreds of thousands of black men in jail and said Obama was articulate for a black man” argument never fails to disappoint.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:11     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, as someone who grew up here and went to HS in the area, it's the Whites who were "so down" with trying to be Black in high school are the most hard core Trumpers now. Strange


What is also strange is the same people that oppose change in school districts also marched in BLM rallies over the summer.



Yup and they are also the first ones to switch their kids to private in the fall b/c of COVID and/or are pissed off about DL
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:09     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Biden but it’s kind of creepy that you’d obsess about the small minority of Trump voters in MoCo who aren’t going to have any impact on the election. Are you going to hunt them down personally? I’d be a lot more concerned with what the Trump supporters are still trying to do in states other than Maryland.


Won't hunt them down, but I do want to avoid them bc we are a BLack and Brown family and don't want to be near any family who votes for someone who does not want us to exist. It's a safety issue for me.




My trumpy sibling is married to a POC, as is their dc. They have black and brown blood relatives and STILL are trumpers. My friend is an immigrant from South America and is trumpy as hell. Not all trumpers are motivated by racist hate, many are motivated by $$$. Money/taxes are more important than the fact that my black nephews are at great risk of being profiled and victims of brutality and that the out going president riled up racists and made open bigotry ok. I tried to sway them to reject hatred and they said I'm full of sh!t.



I think you need to dig a little deeper and with more nuance. You can be married to a POC and (stay with me now), still be racist! Men can be married to women and still be misogynist, right?

In terms of South America, the Latinx vote is far more complex. You need to consider factors such as how "White" this person appears, how evangelical leaning is this person, etc. Hate to break it to you, but the overwhelming majority of people who voted for Trump are WHITE. And are racist or are ok witih racism, which makes them racist
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:06     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, as someone who grew up here and went to HS in the area, it's the Whites who were "so down" with trying to be Black in high school are the most hard core Trumpers now. Strange


What is also strange is the same people that oppose change in school districts also marched in BLM rallies over the summer.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:05     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Biden but it’s kind of creepy that you’d obsess about the small minority of Trump voters in MoCo who aren’t going to have any impact on the election. Are you going to hunt them down personally? I’d be a lot more concerned with what the Trump supporters are still trying to do in states other than Maryland.


Won't hunt them down, but I do want to avoid them bc we are a BLack and Brown family and don't want to be near any family who votes for someone who does not want us to exist. It's a safety issue for me.




My trumpy sibling is married to a POC, as is their dc. They have black and brown blood relatives and STILL are trumpers. My friend is an immigrant from South America and is trumpy as hell. Not all trumpers are motivated by racist hate, many are motivated by $$$. Money/taxes are more important than the fact that my black nephews are at great risk of being profiled and victims of brutality and that the out going president riled up racists and made open bigotry ok. I tried to sway them to reject hatred and they said I'm full of sh!t.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:05     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was going to make a joke about what the OP and the other posters would want to do with the 18% of Trumpers in the county, like say, tar and feather them?

Apparently, this is exactly what some people would like to do. So very compassionate of you.

For the record, I'm Catholic and voted for Biden. I hate Trump with every fiber of my being.

I also have a few friends and family who are Trumpers and it's very uncomfortable, but I still associate with them all.

I have also lived in Montgomery County for 45 years and have become nauseated by the extreme slogan cultism that has been growing like weeds all across the county.

MoCo has always been on the liberal side of things, but there was always a balance of common sense as well. Connie Morella wold be brandished as a Nazi if she ran for office today.

This does not bode well for the future of Montgomery County.


This is not at all true. Connie Morella is well respected and they just named a library after her.

Why? Among other things like I don’t know actually doing a good job, she was a sane Republican, and she opposed Trump in both of his runs for president.


We just had this conversation with our young adult children. We are telling them about conservative Republicans vs alt-right lunatic/Trump Republicans (also the tea party). They need to understand how we got to where we are today.

My H is a Republican (did not vote trump ever).

It's really sad that the Republican party has been usurped by lunatics. My hope is that the Lincoln Project and never-Trumpers can get control back from the lunatics and reestablish a conservative Republican party so we have choice.

Interestingly, my H talked about Connie Morella in this conversation. Also, Michael Steele.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 13:02     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
We have one on our street. Stopped waving back at me over the summer. Oh, well.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 12:55     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
To be clear, there is something of a split in the Catholic Church with “Pope Francis Catholics” breaking for Biden.

We live in strange times with (more conservative) Catholics voting against a Catholic candidate.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 12:51     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
Interestingly, as someone who grew up here and went to HS in the area, it's the Whites who were "so down" with trying to be Black in high school are the most hard core Trumpers now. Strange
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 12:49     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Biden but it’s kind of creepy that you’d obsess about the small minority of Trump voters in MoCo who aren’t going to have any impact on the election. Are you going to hunt them down personally? I’d be a lot more concerned with what the Trump supporters are still trying to do in states other than Maryland.


Won't hunt them down, but I do want to avoid them bc we are a BLack and Brown family and don't want to be near any family who votes for someone who does not want us to exist. It's a safety issue for me.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 09:22     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
What blows my mind is that a significant portion of the electorate voted for HOGAN and ELRICH.

Hogan came closer than any Republican in MoCo in 2018 (because Ben Jealous was so terrible)
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 09:20     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
Anonymous wrote:I was going to make a joke about what the OP and the other posters would want to do with the 18% of Trumpers in the county, like say, tar and feather them?

Apparently, this is exactly what some people would like to do. So very compassionate of you.

For the record, I'm Catholic and voted for Biden. I hate Trump with every fiber of my being.

I also have a few friends and family who are Trumpers and it's very uncomfortable, but I still associate with them all.

I have also lived in Montgomery County for 45 years and have become nauseated by the extreme slogan cultism that has been growing like weeds all across the county.

MoCo has always been on the liberal side of things, but there was always a balance of common sense as well. Connie Morella wold be brandished as a Nazi if she ran for office today.

This does not bode well for the future of Montgomery County.


This is not at all true. Connie Morella is well respected and they just named a library after her.

Why? Among other things like I don’t know actually doing a good job, she was a sane Republican, and she opposed Trump in both of his runs for president.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 08:48     Subject: MoCo 18% for Trump
There are racists in every corner of USA. But, then there are also greedy people who are upset that Biden will tax them.

We make more than 100K. We will be more than happy to be heavily taxed over 100K. Why the hell not?
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2020 08:45     Subject: Re:MoCo 18% for Trump
^ *branded, not brandished