written by Sous Chef

Shortly after the election, a “friend” on Facebook posted that they would probably lose friends for saying they voted for Trump. One commenter stated that it was a shame that politics could come between friends.

These were my words in response:

You will not be losing friends over politics. The decision to sever a relationship, whether it is friend or family, is an extremely difficult, and many times, heartbreaking decision. Make no mistake, though, this has nothing to do with politics. 

It has everything to do with your willingness to support a man who has no morals, no ethics, and no feelings or regards for anyone but himself. 

It has everything to do with your willingness to support a man who has no respect for our military, who regards all wounded, POW, MIA, and KIA soldiers as LOSERS. 

It has everything to do with your willingness to support a man: 

–who feels that certain races and ethnicities are subhuman and have no rights to our liberties, even if they are American citizens; in other words, a racist and bigot.

–who thinks people with disabilities should just be left to die (ask his nephew)

–who is a homophobe and transphobe

–who thinks that it is OK to grope, rape, and molest a woman because he can, and did (and, according to him, deep down inside she loves it). 

–who says “Hitler had some good ideas.”

–who admires Putin and calls him his good friend.

It has everything to do with your willingness to support a man who has given permission to send us back to the days of sheet-covered murderers whose goal was to “rid” our nation of what they considered to be undesireables: anyone who was not pure white. The difference is now there is no need to wear the hoods to hide their identity so no one would know who committed the atrocities. They are loud and proud with their hatred because their fuhrer has given his blessing. 

This has everything to do with your willingness to support a man who created a lie about losing an election because his narcissism wouldn’t allow him to accept defeat, who preached this lie everyday, until Jan. 6, 2021, when as sitting President, he incited then directed an armed mob to march to the Capitol and do what it takes to stop the certification of votes. He said “I’ll be right there with you” then cowardly hid and watched it all unfold on TV  for three hours as the police who were sworn to protect the Capitol were trampled and beaten as they screamed for help, as the out-of-control mob roamed the hallways of the Capitol yelling  “hang Mike Pence,” as legislators and staff ran for their lives, before his staff and family were finally able to convince him he needed to do something. His response was to tell the insurrectionists to “stand down and stand by. You’re good people. We love you”.   Do you remember how shocked you were that American citizens could be doing this, how appalled and disgusted you were with them AND him? Or maybe you were sitting in front of your TV cheering them on.

This has everything to do with your willingness to support a man who has vowed retribution against all who opposed him, mirroring the policies of Russia and other dictatorship countries.

This has everything to do with your willingness to support a man who believes he is “second only to Christ (his words); creating a cult who calls him “the 2^nd coming; Jesus, ‘God’s chosen,’ the anointed David.” (The Jesus I have loved since childhood would NEVER commit the inhumanities this man sees as normal.)

Your willingness to support a sociopath may be the result of you not really understanding the consequences, or it may be because this is how you believe.  I pray it is the first reason.

As I said, it has nothing to do with politics. Not surprisingly, this person unfriended and then blocked me.