I'll be direct and honest. I'm a white (Jewish) Republican, I don't have a racist bone in my body. I live in Southern California and can count the number of white friends I have on my hands.
This election was tough for me, I was a Swing Vote. I went back and forth in my mind between Hillary and Donald Trump.
I started to hear things, when Hillary called Trump supporters deplorable, I thought of my friends and family that support Trump who were also not racist. I began to lean towards Trump.
When friends and family who are liberal began to directly insult my other friends and family who are Republican, I noticed that my family who are Republican we're not arguing back but still being called out and tagged in mean videos and meme's. Again I learned a little more towards Trump.
Although I'm Jewish a lot of my family is Christian. When comments were made about Christians trying to destroy the nation. I remember that my family are good people and they don't want to destroy the nation. And every time I heard an insult along those lines I leaned a little more towards Trump.
When people started talking about Trump supporters being unintelligent and stupid, I remembered that a lot of my family members who are Republican, who work hard. Some owned businesses, while my brother is a welder who went through hell to get his certificate, spent his savings to strive to get a better position in the work force and works extremely hard. I started to get angry and leaned a little more towards Trump.
These little things and many more over time bothered me enough that I supported Trump. My vote was not set in stone, but the things this article talks about doesn't just apply to changing people who are racist. I am not a racist, I'm Jewish and I don't have room to be racist, I hear racial comments on my own enough. But after a while of hearing people I know to be good being slandered just for being in a political party, a lot of which were swing votes as well, I got fed up real quick. And it was clear where I needed to stand.
When I saw that a group of people (Democrats) who claimed their entire message is based around tolerance and love begin display intolerance and hatred, I begin doubting everything else that their messages stood for as well.
This post might make some people mad, might make me unpopular. But it is the truth, and it matters. I figured it was worth noting that there is another side of trump supporters that people keep forgetting about.
You are one dumb motherfucker.
"People told me I was a racist, so I decided to vote for a racist to prove them wrong."