What the actual f**k?

@badminton and of they haven't committed them, they all really want to.

@Carla I have a feeling that Trump is the revenge of the dumb bigots of America for Obama being elected President.

@badminton The single biggest factor in whether someone is going to be a Republican or Democrat is racial intolerance. That is true regardless of income, education, or other factors. This trend has been deepening since the 1980s and exploded under Trump. And the more racially intolerant someone is, the more likely they are to be Republican. The biggest bigots are Republican. This makes sense based on observations, but there are actual data that shows this in real numbers.

@windinhishair When Obama was elected in 2008 the right-wing bigots went crazy. They were horrified that a black man had been elected president. The crackpot conspiracy machine went full-blast, "Obama will confiscate all guns.!" "Obama will direct the military to put all white people in reservations!" The fact that Obama was an entirely main-stream, conservative Democrat never mollified the racist conspiracy nuts. They kept right on believing that the Obama concentration camps were coming any day. In 2016 they transferred their paranoid delusions onto Hillary Clinton.

@badminton Absolutely. The conspiracy theories just continue to get worse and worse, along with overt racism, anti-semitism, and bigotry.

@windinhishair I worked at a Baptist church camp during the summers of 2006-2012. I’m a Democrat myself and was in a deep minority among the staff in that way. In fact, people often felt comfortable discussing Republican politics out in the open, believing that nobody would be offended or argue against them. In particular I felt unwelcome there when they repeated a popular belief there that Obama was the anti-Christ.

@JPWhoo When bigotry is that evident, it is hard to be around people like that.