She alreads said she's stereotyping based on personal anecdotes, so...
Yes, which is why:
Cindy when did you become so political? Or have you always been and I just never noticed cause I'm not? I mean all I remember when I think of you is talking about star trek. weird funny shit, anime and tv shows, then you're gone for months and people tell me you had some fight on some corner of this board I never go to, rinse repeat.
There are four main events:
1. 2008 financial crisis (socialism)
2. Ferguson and BLM (seething anger at white people and america)
3. Pulse (acknowledging that vulnerable populations should have firearms for self defense)
4. The election of Donald Trump (realizing that calling all white people racist makes you what you hate)
combined with complete and utter disillusionment with the democratic party.
I told her this turning the run up. I told her "while I can understand black's resentment toward whites, blaming all whites for black problems now-a-days is kinda dumb" she didn't want to listen until after Trump got elected and "hey, calling all whites that may agree with you on some points but not all racists (#OhSupTIMU) just makes them tune out." Just shows that I need to tell her that her jump toward hating socialists instead of Whites now is just as bad needs to be told.
Like, I agree with her on some aspects that she throws out, but at the same time these jumps into "so this proves why I should hate <subject/target> 100%" is just "No, honey. #NotAll<Subject/Target>"
I mean to put it another way: She agreed with Bernie (IIRC) on certain aspects of politics, like I do. But now that she's turned around on socialism, I wonder if she still agrees with him in certain aspects or has 180'd on her opinion of him/his points she agrees with because "fuck him, he didn't do anything for me" like the BLM movement time-line where she hated whites without understanding why she had that resentment came from.
I haven’t turned around on anything in that regard.
-College tuition rates are ridiculous and you shouldn’t have to go into debt to do something society tells you to do.
-Amazon potentially becoming the first trillion dollar company while its workers are on food stamps is beyond the pale.
-Being a trillion dollar company shouldn’t even be legal.
-A CEO that makes millions or billions a year while the workers make peanuts is a very real and big problem that needs fixing.
-Monopolies such as Google should be broken up. Go fully Teddy. Fuck them.
-Big Pharma being able to dictate prices of life saving medicine by inflating the price by 1000% should be illegal.
-The people responsible for the 2008 financial crisis should be in prison if illegal activity was involved.
-The working man and woman should be placed as more important than corporations.
Etc.
I’m still for the working class. I just simply do not find socialism to be the answer. Democrats don’t give a shit about the working class and are as corrupt as Republicans.
That said, I think a lot of our system works and has a far better track record than socialism.
Do I think every socialist is a group think wanker? No! I think there’s plenty with good hearts and they legitimatelybwant to do the right thing. But what about a Trojan horse or bad actors who manipulate those people with good intentions? Socialism is dangerous, has a bad track record, and run contrary to human nature.
My problem is more with the ism than it’s adherents. Most socialists have their hearts in the right place. It’s the ism that is cancerous and broken.