Anti civil rights activists and politicians play on those irrational fears.
This is key to understand... to not allowing them to manipulate us.
I'm personally disgusted with our political system... I see no future with its current structure, the bad cop, good cop thing got really old for me.
Republicans want to save the world, and Democrats want to save us from the evil republicans... to me its all a lie, fabricated fight.
I'm not a fan of trump, not in the slightest, but i dont want him to get impeached. I want him to finish his mandate. I would love to see some independent Politicians go up the ranks, people who understand nuance, who don't use "fear" as a token of manipulation.
But, because I believe in living in the real world is important to my personal sanity. I will not hold my breath...
*edit I was replying to someone else
I don't trust Trump and I didn't vote for him but he sure beats the hell out of the alternative, if she won and got to appoint 3 justices we could kiss the 1st 2nd 5th and 14th amendment rights goodbye.
She had democrats cheering at the convention the idea of amending the first amendment.
I'm with you 150% on that one... we had the choice between ebola and broken bones... it was not about who was good, it was about who was no lethal.
In some ways Trump is more dangerous than Hillary on gun rights because any gun control he supports is very likely to actually go through but on the other hand so far so good with the Supreme Court. Trump said all the right things about guns, his position paper was brilliantly written, someone who knew the right things clearly wrote it, yet I quit the NRA when they endorsed him, he used to be for gun control. And we see that he does appear to be open to new restrictions.