“And you know what makes me angrier still? The fact that I have to hide my identity and remain anonymous in writing this essay. If I outed myself as a Trump supporter, I would be harassed and doxxed and shunned by everyone I know and by the Twitter lynch mobs which up until yesterday I myself led.”
Realty can be harsh.
That sounds like my work - seriously I don't know what would happen if I engaged in one of those work discussions.
In Santa Monica where I work, with people I otherwise like respect and I know they are smart in their profession and technical,math, scientific education ...
but liberalism is a trigger point that when clicked releases so many pent up insecurities resulting from cognitive dissonance it leads to very ugly behavior.
It not okay to disagree on certain things - we have always been at war with EastAsia
Today will be interesting as lots of these folks are gay in the echelon of the "A gays" in Hollywood.
For those outside of the disgusting L.A. Hollywood entertainment industry A gays these are the people men and women who run, produce, control a vast amount of what you see on the screen (any screen).
They are super rich - super thin, very aloof elitist, usually quite rude and vapid. As a collective they are velvet mafia.