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I have been wrong.  I felt that we should push for unity.  I felt that the solution to the hatred of the politically right was to push for love and not answer them in like terms.   After all, that's what they always say after breakups... take the high road.  I felt that message would resonate with even Republicans and draw the party back from the extreme rhetoric and fascism being birthed.  I was wrong.  The Republican party STILL chose the hatred, defended the hatred, and repeated the hatred.  They still with a completely unconflicted conscience would tell you it was the CHRISTIAN thing to turn out immigrant mothers and babies to prison or send them back to the countries they escaped from brutality, to deny food assistance to poor mothers and children who were supposedly lazy or housing to the homeless, to attack children for changing their pronouns, and to defend a convicted felon who has been found guilty of rape in a civil case and openly bragged of sexual assault. There is no more integrity or true Christian faith in the modern religious right.

If there is one thing that the right has very clearly taught America, it is that consistent attacks, blame, and derision of the other side... wins elections.  We tried it the unity seeking way, and the right openly rejected that open hand.. in fact bit it.  There is no negotiating with narcissists.  I should have known that from my own experience with my first ex.  I tried peace and unity with her and even defended her to my children... before my ex would lie to and steal them, because to ALL of the Republican right members, nowadays, their entire judgment of good and evil is ... did they win.  Do they have power over your life to tell you what to do.  In the end, the only solution I had for that ex was to get as far away from her as possible and cease communication.  I didn't understand the "never trump" phrase I used to very often see on dating profiles, but now I do.  I now support isolation from Republicans for your own safety.  Already, post election, Trump is speaking about attacking trans rights "at any age" and denying Hispanics citizenship even if born here.  He is an existential threat to most of America (America is a people not a geography).  And his voters are already attacking others in his name.

I was going to give a specific list of Trump supporter companies to boycott, but it's simple
If ANYONE voted for or helped him, do not buy anything they sell, don't listen to their music, and don't read or watch their media because you KNOW what they do with your dollars.. and that includes churches this Christmas.  Just give the donations directly to social need organizations.  That's the only way the money will get there.

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