I live in trump country and republican leaning village but no one has bothered me yet
I have seen signs on mailboxes that said team trump. A flag that said I support ICE report all illegals. I have read on the back of someone’s car a bumper sticker that says I smell commies. And so many damn American flags. Granted no one has really bothered me and I never felt threatened in my village or persecuted. People will wave hello to you as they walk or drive by. I mean it’s disheartening to know that there are quite a few trump supporters around though and truthfully it’s a predominantly white neighborhood and blue collar area ( which there is nothing wrong with to be blue collar like working in skilled trades. ) I will say this the south coast of Massachusetts and Bristol county are pretty conservative for Massachusetts it is heavily Pentecostal and Catholic. I am pretty open about what I believe in and nobody has bothered me so far. Many people commute for work and you need a car to get around. It is mixed with white collar professional types and mostly older people and families with young kids. I don’t think trump supporters or republicans are necessarily evil. Just misinformed and sometimes these are people who felt left behind by the mainstream political establishment. The surrounding bigger towns have high unemployment rates and not very educated population but it is still expensive to live. I live in a semi rural suburban area. One or two towns over it is rural and houses are spaced out. I don’t like that people voted for trump and I’m not crazy about the Republican Party but I’m willing to hear people out about why they vote the way they do and what causes them to belief certain things. I have republicans in my own family and my sister voted trump over Kamala Harris. I was disappointed. In my sister not going to lie but I am not going to stop loving her or mistreat her because of her politics. She is a moderate conservative where as I am a social democrat. It’s close to democratic socialism but not quite because it is still a form of capitalism.. my point is different types of people can learn to coexist with each other even if they don’t agree with one another. One reason my sister voted for trump was she didn’t want her money to fund someone cutting their boobs off for transgender surgery or sex reassignment surgery. My sister thinks being a trans person is a mental illness and delusion. She knows I’m intersex and that is very different but she thinks that trans people need mental help. She compared it to someone identifying as a different age than they are. That’s extreme. We have spirited discussions and I have tried to explain to her the science behind transsexualism.but yeah variety keeps thing interesting right? She refuses to pander to delusion. She told me and she would simply use the persons current name to refer to them but she is not calling someone who is a she a he or vice versa. As far as intersex people she thinks they can pick which sex they want to be male or female. She doesn’t think there are enough intersex people to put other options on legal documents. I think there should be other options on legal documents while she thinks it should just be male or female. Interesting conversations but sometimes I think damn how are we related? She also believes in secure borders but not the way ice is ripping apart families and putting people in cages.










