I’m one of them. Never voted Republican in my entire life. Talked to
@atlkvb about it before. I don’t feel like I’ve changed that much ... I feel like my party left me.
Only thing I changed on was universal healthcare. I work at Mylan and my healthcare plan is tremendous but I still thought for the good of the country universal healthcare was important. Then when Democrats even started talking about how it was too expensive and would basically double the federal budget... I had to take notice. Then in the primaries when everyone was saying not only do they want free healthcare but free college and daycare (and they all raised their hands to give the same rights to illegal immigrants) I was like “holy **** they’ve lost their minds”. Plus I’m a huge free speech guy which I thought was a liberal idea. Then I started seeing things in a different way.
I used to be on afternoon shift and come home and watch Lawrence O’Donnell (flame away!) and I watched him call Trump racist and xenophobic for the Chinese travel ban. Then a month later say he should have done it sooner and he could have saved American lives. So I’m like “huh... that doesn’t sound right?” I talked to a friend at work I knew was republican but he never really tried to sway me and he showed me some things I never knew.
For instance, until about 5 months ago I never knew that when Trump said “these people coming from Mexico aren’t human, they’re animals “ he immediately preceded that statement by talking about gangs and MS13. I never saw that on msnbc. I just saw the cut they wanted me to. The same with the Charlottesville statement about “good people on both sides “. Never saw that right after that he said “I’m not talking about neo nazis or white supremacists. They should be condemned totally!” So I started to learn about Fake News. They don’t doctor the footage... they just edit it to show what they want you to see.
Anyway, I wish there could be a middle ground. Shame is people in the middle like me are referred to as racist, alt-right crazies
