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Part of my journey of self-discovery was realizing that people are not good or evil. The people generally doing evil things, are not doing them because they believe they're evil, or the people they're serving are evil.
Everyone believes they're in the right, for one reason or another. And everyone believes they're on the side of good. It's like competing religions, they all think they're "right".
Someone like Trump's motivations aren't evil, even though it manifests as evil through the people that listen to and support him. Trump's just a selfish, narcissistic dick who will step on, over, through, or kill anyone who prevents him from getting what he wants, and what he wants is to be constantly catered to, pleased, made happy, and be given what he wants and told how great he is all the time. That's it.
The people that support him aren't evil. They're racist dickheads mainly, but they're not evil. They're scared of what they don't understand and they're angry at a changing world they don't fit in and they want things to go back to a time when the color of their skin was good enough to guarantee that they had a stable life.
The truth is nobody gets that sort of life anymore. Not PoC, not Straight White CIS males, not anyone. The Billionaires and Oligarch have stolen that from us. From all of us. They are the real enemy. Not each other. They've spent a considerable part of their wealth over the years convincing us that the different kinds of us are the problem. It's not a political issue, it's not a race issue, it's an education and class issue.
Those are the people we need to be angry at. Guys like the OP that were probably raised in a racist household, had racist friends, community influences, and traditions, actually breaking out of that and correcting it so that he's working on addressing his systemic racist beliefs? Those guys are one in a million, literally, let me tell you.
I've been on the internet since Prodigy dial-up days, and people like that are rare as fuck. If you want to help solve racism in the world, you're going to need to make some compromises from what I suspect is an ideal/perfect world you have in your head that's black and white. At some point, if you stay on your path long enough, you'll hopefully realize that there is no black, there is no white, everything's a shade of gray or a different color between the rainbow. People like OP are allies worth having, they're success stories to tell; they're not the enemy.
Billionaires are the enemy. Never, ever let them make you forget that.
So when you seem to call most people that support trump "racist dickheads", how can you not see the evil in that? The issue is that I dont think you truly understand what is happening with trump or biden, you are just listening to the media that either directly lies, or misleads you into believing things. Right now from what I can see, people are not allowed to disagree with your ideas without being a bad according to you.