I spend time most years in PCB in Fl.
Do you mean PBC in FL? If so, I grew up (mostly) there, in Palm Beach County. I didn’t see much bigly there forty five years ago, but saw some near the armpit states (north-east Gulf of Mexico area). I remember driving through there with a CB radio and listening to some rednecks harassing and threatening a black guy, trying to get him to say where he was.
In another few weeks or so we should see some illuminating statistics on the “freedom” vs Shelter In Place (SIP) policies and behaviors.
Now ( @Davis) I’m feeling offended practically every day here at home during covid angst, hearing the freedom folks regularly use epithets like SJW, libtards, use “progressives” as a bad word, and more. They do like to trigger us, perhaps because they’re in the minority in an area here that’s mostly progressive, and have no other place to scream and yell. (I mean, really, why do they even live in California? But then again, a co-worker in a conservative area in FL once told me that liberals are mentally ill. Pretty sure it came straight from a FOX commentator.)
So I take a moment to get over their (often mean-spirited tone) jabs, grow some thicker skin, try to respond without insulting-in-kind, and also try to write it to people who will actually listen, before the triggered libtards (yes, they actually exist here) respond with their own brand of insecurities and vitriol.
This is especially aggravating every time I hear one of those freedom idiots (who, btw don’t care as much about the “promote the general welfare” part of the constitution) say something like “masks don’t work” (and “so why should Trump wear one?”), “the flu kills people every year, so what’s the big deal?”, “there’s no treatment or vaccine so let’s just get this over with, let the vulnerable die (they all have underlying conditions to start with)”, and “then we’ll all be fine”.
I swear, it’s scary how many of them are out there, and how easily triggered they are by any criticism (real or imagined) of Trump.
I digressed.
I still remember being accused of sounding post-modernist. Uneducated fully about it, I likely knee-jerk responded and sounded like an idiot. Anyway, I understand better how some of the Trumpers feel about being told they sound racists. As @Robert points out, (my loose paraphrase) Trumpers came out of the closet to vote for their hero who came to support the downtrodden like themselves.
I haven’t read much on post-modernism (other than in Art History class), but I believe that the current American Majority vs Trump political identity feud is more serious… perhaps even an existential crisis. I hope the fucker catches covid soon, and dies in ICU, sloooowly.
That’s how triggered I am! And please give him all the hydroxychloroquine he wants.
That’s a thing now, responding to other Americans like they’re enemies, or just unAmerican. (Well, Nationalists use that unAmerican charge much more than I do.)
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