I thought twice about it, but I kept it for a reason. I wondered if you would read that and assume that the rest of my post would be fluff. But we’ve had discussions in the past, and ive read many of your notes. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I disagree but  usually I find that I respect where you’re coming from.

I hope you’ll reconsider reading the rest, and engaging with it in good faith, if you trust after a couple of years here together that I’m a thoughtful person. (And if not, welp, I can’t please everyone 😉).

I recognize that the line rings of woke cliches. In general, I’m allergic to the wokey stuff. But I had to think about it, and the fact is that the policies I was referring to, that Trump implemented (which I do answer, later in my reply) did not really impact me directly. They pissed me off but they didn’t take away my freedoms. Trump did numerous things that reduced freedoms for a huge number of Muslim people, and brown & black people in general, from early on. For starters. But it didn’t make my life harder in the ways it did theirs. 

I think we both believe in freedom as one of the highest societal ideals, and (judging from your handle) we agree that the government+big bank fiat financial system is the root cause of an inordinate amount of suffering and injustice. Sharing that perspective at least, I hope you’ll hold that in the back of your mind if you choose to read my answer.