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I remember talking to a relative of mine (he's a redcap) and we were talking about the economy a few months into 2025.
He said something about how Pedonald was "fixing" the supposedly terrible Biden economy. I asked him what was so bad during the Biden economy....both he and I had steady jobs. He said something phrased in a kind of passive-aggressive way about how maybe the "wrong" people were doing well - implication being ME and other people present that were not redcaps were not doing poorly and that was a problem. I pointed out that I worked a steady job through his first term, too.
And I could tell that reminding him of this annoyed him. I think he expressed some kind of wish that maybe this term Pedonald would do better at harming people like me, at least economically if not something more directly nefarious. We were interrupted by other people (lots of people at this gathering) before I could ask more questions.
These people are truly warped. Sure, in my weaker moments, I express vitriol towards the redcaps and don't always say the nicest things about them. But I really don't want them and their spouses and their children to go without healthcare, shelter, food, a job with dignity, clean air and clean water, etc...I've seen lots of the redcaps really champion death and so on online, and definitely I've seen them talk about it abstractly IRL, too.
But to have a relative stand there and tell you that they want harm done to you and your family is another matter altogether.
When you think about it that way it’s no surprise they worship the Orange Pedo as the Second Coming of Christ. You’ve been Living A Wicked Life and have Gone Down The Path Of Sin, and so you deserve to be smited by the divine! But the divine never answered his prayers; you and all those other icky upstart ‘sinful people’ kept having a nice job and everything that he felt should be taken from you.
And then Trump comes along and grants his prayers with deportations and shootings and everything else he thinks you deserve. Is it any wonder he’s willing to suffer himself, as long as you ‘get what’s coming to you’?
I think the biggest thing that was so wild to learn about this relative was when they expressed that my wife and I going to college has basically tainted us. It is their belief that going to a university basically ruins anyone that attends. That's some real tell me you know nothing about higher education without telling me...
So, in this case, the major problem with me (and my wife) is getting a higher education and not supporting the GOP. That's about the extent of what they know about our politics, really. It's not like we sit around reeling off readings of Karl Marx at gatherings like this.