This from Steve Schmidt, co founder of The Lincoln Project, was I think, posted somewhere, maybe as a Twitter thread but I’m not sure at the moment, before the mob assault on the Capitol and well after the election, when you could hear howls from the kook pews about how could Biden have won so many votes when we saw practically no Biden signs on lawns or bumper stickers. Wasn’t it obvious why? Yeah…they knew damn well why they weren’t seeing much of that in their neighborhoods. All that ranting and raving and chest thumping was meant to silence anyone who might even be thinking of voting for Biden. But once people got into the voting booth, they made their silent voices heard.<\/p>\n
Anyway…this was posted the other day on the Facebook page of the Lawrence County (Indiana) Democratic Party. I couldn’t have said it better…<\/p>\n
\nNo amount of unity efforts can erase what we’ve learned about our fellow Americans the past four years.<\/p>\n
No, Biden\u2019s rallies weren\u2019t bigger.<\/p>\n
No, you didn\u2019t see many Biden flags on houses or Biden bumper stickers on cars.<\/p>\n
No, you don\u2019t know a single person on your street or at your church who supports Biden.<\/p>\n
But guess what?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re here.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s rallies were small, because people who live in reality don\u2019t want to expose themselves to the virus you continue to downplay or deny.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t fly Biden flags because we don\u2019t want our houses burned down.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t put Biden bumper stickers on our cars because we want to avoid becoming targets for road rage.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t trust you.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve decided to minimize our interactions with people who cannot be reasoned with. This is for our own safety. In private groups – where you\u2019re not invited – we share our bewilderment of your descent into madness.<\/p>\n
We all have stories about how we\u2019ve cut ties with you, our family and former friends, because we don\u2019t want your hatred poisoning our social media streams. We can\u2019t stand to listen to you vomiting the lies of your cult, day after day. You used to be different. We liked you. But now that we know what was inside your heart all along, we\u2019ve decided you don\u2019t deserve to know about our lives. We\u2019ll skip family reunions, even after we get the vaccine. We\u2019ll make up some excuse just to be polite.<\/p>\n
But in reality, we just don\u2019t feel like sitting around eating potato salad and making small talk with people who have such monstrous beliefs. To all the brothers and aunts and cousins and dads and neighbors out there who just can\u2019t wrap their heads around what this means going forward, know that these scars aren\u2019t going away anytime soon. We won\u2019t be reaching out, and we won\u2019t be mending fences. It\u2019s not up to us to apologize for the wounds you have gleefully inflicted upon us and our friends. You poured the gasoline, you lit the match. You burned this to the ground.<\/p>\n
So if we seem different from now on, I guess we are, in a way. We\u2019ve seen your truth laid bare, and we\u2019re horrified. I hope Trump was worth it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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