Hey brother, how you doing? After a month long hiatus myself I've decided to drop by. Don't know how long I'll be staying, but I'm having a boring Saturday night in.
Not only did I vote for Donald Trump, I OPENLY supported him. I wore t-shirts, including ones that had the phrase "The Deplorables", and one of Trump riding in on a tank with fireworks and a bald eagle in his trail. I told my friends and family to get out the vote, and convinced a few of them. I voted for him over her for all the obvious reasons - national security, for the redemption of the middle class, and as a middle finger to the mainstream media AND political correctness.
What I found most striking is that just by virtue of my Trump vote, the average millennial would probably lump me into a new political demographic called the "alt-right", who are becoming the arch-nemesis of the SJW and have been branded the following: racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and "Islamophobic". It has been called a far-right group that is right wing politics on steroids and is synonymous with fascism, Neo-Nazism and "white supremacy". This is an utterly idiotic and shameful assertion. Because most ironically, I am a liberal who believes the following:
1. The war on drugs should be abolished immediately and we should pass recreational marijuana at the federal level yesterday.
2. The federal minimum wage should be raised to $10 an hour, and at least 1/3 of the states in the union could stand to raise it to $12.
3. The wars have caused far more harm than good and our boys should be brought home immediately.
4. Gays have the right to be married (although this basic right is very different than the militant gay agenda)
5. Minorities are 100% equal to whites and should be held to the same standards of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. In other words, they are INDIVIDUALS, NOT victims.
6. There should be SOME restrictions on guns, and America's gun obsession is a world outlier.
I could go on, but do these sound like radical right wing, neo-Nazi ideologies? Of course not. But because of the left the DEFINITIONS of words (racism, rape) and concepts has changed. I am simultaneously a liberal but a radical Neo-Nazi because:
1. I do not believe racism is a major problem in America anymore.
2. Women are doing JUST FINE (or far better than men, actually)
3. Gays have it better here than in 90% of the world (including the entire Islamic world)
4. Radical Islamic terrorism is a far greater threat to world peace than "Islamophobia"
5. ILLEGAL, CRIMINAL aliens should be punished for crimes, just like anyone else.
These are perfectly reasonable, centrist positions that apparently put me into a "basket of deplorables". So you're DAMN RIGHT I voted for Trump and will CONTINUE to vote Republican until the far left comes back down to earth. Not only because he challenges these ABSURD connotations that the left has legitimized, but also because Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt candidate in American history.
The far left is significantly more dangerous to freedom than the far right in the 21st century west. I hate the way they stifle speech on college campuses and at work. I hate the way they protest - always violently. I hate the way they go after you personally. I hate the way they debate, always going straight to an "ist" word when they lose the argument. I hate the way they virtue signal open-border tolerance for people who would slit their throats (undercover Jihadists and Mexican drug lords). So I as a centrist who leans liberal on almost all social issues is DONE with the out of control, radical left and the Democratic party.