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No harassment here but I avoid talking politics with people that I know are quite liberal or anti Trump because reason has gone out the window there. One of my family members does post things on FB occasionally that leans conservative and sometimes is supportive of a Trump policy. He's lost FB friends and someone, we don't know who, subscribed us to a really far right newspaper, one of those independent things with a couple thousand subscribers (we looked it up). It has some pretty IN YOUR FACE headlines and gets delivered to the house... and NOT in a plane brown wrapper. I can only guess what this was supposed to accomplish.
My mother in law keeps posting pro Trump, pseudo "Christian" links on her FB page and her account keeps getting hacked all the time.
She's been advised not to do this, but she can't help herself. I told her Jesus doesn't need any "likes" or "copy and paste" but she continues to do it. Then, she has the nerve to get upset.
I had a political science professor a few years ago who said the most closed-minded cities he ever lived in were the small town in Georgia where he grew up, and San Francisco, California.
I lived there for a few years myself. It was the only city I've lived in where I was considered a moderate. Basically, if you're not an anarchist or a socialist, you're considered to be a conservative or a moderate. People like Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom are considered to be moderates by much of the population there.
Lol, they don't have to hide. They're a visible minority and also who's going to mess wit dem!
There is truth to this in an area like that mainly for groups. While agree it's the far left and anarchists, there is probably the highest number of those types in the Bay Area than anywhere else. Maybe they need some 'island' protection!?
lol@island protection.
Yeah I can agree that we probably have the most anarchists but the reaction to the Berkeley protest which they hijacked away from the students was extremely unfair to the school and fueled by media hysteria-and that's what the anarchists wanted-to disrupt and get on tv.
Blaming the students for that is like blaming hostages for the actions of their hostage takers.
Maybe not hide, but I keep my mouth shut about politics out here for the most part. And if I do open up, I try to keep it as moderate sounding as possible, probably even moreso after this last election. If you even start to sound like your skewing pro-Trump on an issue people start foaming at the mouth.
Dont worry there are plenty of tough conservatives our there.
Really there are NO conservatives out there. Certainly not in the Republican party at any rate. The GOP jettisoned all truly conservative principles back in the disco era in favor of neocon moral watchdog religious right nonsense.
Anyone who considers themselves conservative and is a member of the Republican party needs to look up the definition of the word, then flee.
The idea that the GOP is in any way small government is the biggest lie in American politics. Has been for decades. And it takes a real dupe to fall for it.
And no, this isn't a defense of Democrats who are equally corrupt and ineffectual.
When you speak of Trump lemmings, there are no "tough ones out there" as you say.
Trump lemmings are the most whiny, cowardly group of people ever to besoil the world stage. All they have is fear. Liberals, homosexuals, strong women, immigrants, Mexicans, brown people in general, secularists, welfare recipients, media, science...to Trump lemmings there is a threat and boogeyman around every corner. They have to wall themselves off into their special safe place.
Conservatism is not the problem. Donald Trump( who isnt a real conservative) is the problem.
Of course, those anarchists must be stopped.
My large extended family is devoutly religious and very conservative( Think Reagan-Bush) and concentrated in the Bay Area and they dont hide it at all. Im one of the few who are Liberal Dems.
So while Im not going to label this as 'fake news', I will say that this is rooted in misguided hypersensitivity.
Furthermore conservatives, I think youd like much of the 925 area code.
You have no concept of "conservative", and no one is going to take the statement on such from someone on the far Left seriously.
LOL. When liberals use the term "snowflake" wrong.
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