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I will say this much: I've never been a political person. I don't identify myself as any "party" and I've had members of all parties (including liberals) angry with me when expressing my opinions. I guess I'm "neutral" or "independent" or whatever.
Ever since Trump was elected, I started, for the first time, to post about politics online. That's unlike me. I simply don't do that. Ever. I HATE political discussions and I've NEVER posted about them on the internet. Trump changed that. He turned my head. He turned all of our heads, for good or ill.
To say that I dislike him doesn't even properly describe my feelings regarding him. The man repulses me. Deeply. In a myriad of ways. I think I literally hate everything about him: his attitude, his politics, his voice, his face, personality--all of it. Tenfold.
Since this is a thread and I have all the time in the world to hash out WHY I don't like this man, I'll only cover a few basic reasons here for now.
First of all--regardless of his politics, this man inspires racism. Whether he intends to or not, that's what he inspires. And let's please leave Obama out of this. Yes, he inspired racism as well, but I want to keep this subject on Trump because...that's the subject.
The KKK loves Trump. Since he's taken office, racists all over the country are "coming out of the closet" and he's literally going in the extreme opposite direction of Obama and causing one faction of racists (KKK) to "rise back up" against the other faction of racists (BLM). He's literally taking us from one problem (Uber Political Correctness) to yet another (Uber Political Incorrectness) and all it's doing is fueling racism and endless issues.
My wife is a LEGAL immigrant from Asia. Green card holding permanent resident who just applied for her US citizenship.
Since Trump became president, we've been getting dirty looks from people in public and someone even saying: "I hope your bags are packed!"
THIS is what he inspires. Regardless of INTENTIONS, THIS is what his politics inspire. For the first time in my 32 years of life, a presidency has me afraid--for my life and for my wife's life. That's part of the reason she applied for her citizenship, in fact--with his controversial stance on immigration, we are too afraid of what he may do to other immigrants. We were always going to go down the citizenship path for her but we expedited the process once Trump was elected.
Some may call it paranoia but, unless your spouse is an immigrant, you canNOT understand the anxiety of laying in bed at night, wondering if your spouse will one day be pulled from your arms. It's a fear that a person should never have to feel.
Anyway, that aspect is only one of a myriad of reasons why I hate Trump. I hope this lunatic burns himself out and is booted/impeached/whatever and I hope it is soon.