I can only imagine the attacks this will inspire (yawn), but this young lady says some important things here. She describes being raised on talk radio, and ultimately how she made her escape.
And for those who scream "TDS!", we both know: This is isn't about him.
It never HAS been. It's about YOU.
Some salient moments,
exactly the same opinions and behaviors we see here:
- "Sometimes I think Republicans develop develop conspiracy theories to deal with things they just can't accept. They're in total denial, and they'd rather live in a fake reality than the real one".
- "I believed that Democrats were totally evil and that Republicans were the good guys".
- "I fell right in line. When you think the other side is evil, you can't imagine voting for anyone other than your own guy".
- "I voted for Trump. I thought I had some unconvential wisdom that other women didn't."
- On her escape: "It was a process of realizing what I already knew deep down: That he (Trump) was unprincipled and unpresidential."
- "He should be absolutely nowhere near the Oval Office".
- "Once that I came to the realization that he has a mental illness, everything started to make sense. That's when I got angry".
- "It showed me the truth: That everything the party said they believed in was a lie. Every value was a lie. Because if you can stand by a man like Donald Trump, you didn't have values. You didn't have principles. Period. To me, it lifted the curtain on everything".
She talks about being in the car, listening to rush, and hannity, and levin, and then talks about consiracy theories like Michelle being a man, Obama being in the muslim brotherhood, and samdy hook being fake, which are not things that rush, hannity, or levin pushed, nor the mainstream republicans. Likely her dad listened to Alex jones a lot, and she’s blaming his views on everyone else. Sounds like she’s using the “blanket statement” technique that dems usually do.
Then she listens to people like Kimmel to get her “views”…..
She can go to whatever party she wants to, but I’ll say this about her, as I would about anyone who leaves their party and joins the other. If the current president isn’t what you want for your party, then you work to change that and get new leadership, you don’t leave your party. If a person causes you to leave your party and turn your back on the views and ideology that you hold, and vote and support the party which you have been against, then one has to question whether or not you every really actually believed in those views…
Sounds to me like this young lady had democrat views deep down, she just thought she was a Republican because of growing up with a father who is Republican, and trump made her realize who she really is. That’s fine, but it’s not a Republican Party thing, it’s a her thing.
Also, this is a great example of why lowering the voting age to 16 that some were talking about, is a bad idea, because this lady’s views were not her own, but the views of her father. Even at 18, these kids don’t have their own views, and are heavily influenced by the household they were raised in, so, largely, how they vote will be determined by that.