You see it all over social media and in the legacy media, woke/progressive/whatever-you-want-to-call-thems announcing to the world they will never ever interact with anyone they think may have voted for Donald Trump.

They won’t talk to them, they won’t be near them, and won’t have sex with them (or maybe even any man until the patriarchy symbolized by Trump is gone.) 

A person can choose – really, for whatever reason – to associate or not with other people.  It is sad when those decisions are made for political reasons by narcissistic one-dimensional humans who have no sense of history or any idea how society works or any sense of proportion or the ability to understand the difference between reality and evil, but so be it.

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If, as those (in many cases, thankfully) people who have aggressively decided to leave us alone for the rest of our lives, are doing so because they think Trump is a fascist, then they are not only unsocialized monsters, but also very very stupid. 

Why stupid?  At least two reasons, the first being socio-tactical.

If you are convinced of the currently engorging political apocalypse, would you not want to warn other people about it?  Or, at least, try to convince people that you are right and trot out arguments and facts and such to convince others of your position?  And that is is something you cannot do if you break off all contact with the people you see as bad – you’re not even taking your ball and going home, you’re just going home and leaving the field as is.  In other words, let those you consider fascists run up the score – now, by your own definition, that’s actually evil cowardice

Now, this does bring up another issue – what if the people who are cutting off others somewhere, deep inside, know they really can’t make any coherent, convincing argument to change even one other opinion?  

Or what if they have become so used to bullying people into silence they have lost the ability to even try to create such an argument?  Can they only find intellectual solace in “shut up” words?  

And cutting someone off is the ultimate “shut up.”

Narcissists and their sub-conscious do not have a terribly pleasant relationship (unless they are just straight up sociopaths and then it’s easy because they have none.)  But, at some evolutionary lizard brain level, if their narcissism is being told by the rest of their consciousness that they may not be right at all they tend to react rather psychologically violently (unless of course they listen and re-assess…pretty rare, that.)

The inchoate rage directed at others is a manifestation of the unacknowledged rage they feel towards themselves.

That’s not to say every anti-Trump person is full of rage or completely wrong.  Trump has a personality tailored to irritate most people, he has made many missteps (including the fact he was unprepared for office in 2016,)  and if you are left of center you – with absolute propriety and justification –  do not at all agree with many of his policies.

I agree with most, but certainly not all.

And that’s fine – but turning a political disagreement into a life-shattering event would have been – until very recently – practically inconceivable.  Why is it happening now?

First, the angriest folks right now are the same people who demand to be treated like children, who demand safe spaces and speech codes, and who have been coddled (or terrified of being socially bullied) for much of their lives. They cannot imagine something not happening the way they want it to. Popular Mechanics How ... Popular Mechanics Best Price: $5.34 Buy New $9.68 (as of 08:56 UTC - Details)

The reaction is akin to that of a parental divorce, emphasis on the fact that many people currently see the government as their parents.

Second, Trump is not necessarily the most likable guy, let alone everyone’s cup of tea.  Going back 50 years, he has generated a great deal of ill will, some of it deserved.

Third, there is the issue of trickle down psychosis.

Even if one knows it is untrue garbage designed to frighten/manipulate you to think a certain way, there is no question that the legacy media’s ceaseless drumbeat of “evil, fascist stupid, trashy, evil” over the past nine years has gotten to people and some far more than others.

For Trump supporters, the stream of invented invective has actually reinforced their support of him by turning him into a victim, a martyr.

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