https://www.choosingtherapy.com/abusive-relationship/

If any of you know someone still on the fence, or someone who was made to hate Trump supporters, particularly those who have experienced abuse or are sympathetic to abuse victims, here’s a good way to frame our side to at the very least gain sympathy and understanding:

We are escaping an abusive relationship with the government, news media, and big pharma!!

Nearly every one of these article’s signs of an abusive relationship apply to us in some way or another. Here are some notable ones:

• Verbal abuse (insults, name calling), gaslighting, public humiliation

• Financial control, encouraging codependency, negative impacts on career

• Intimidation tactics, threats of harm, physical abuse, unpredictable/volatile behavior, victim blaming, using children to manipulate

• Controlling clothing, isolation from friends and family, over/underdose of medication, growing health issues, malnutrition, mental illness

These are all the things that we have been enduring over the past four years at the very least. Some just apply to us, some to the entire country. But, framed this way, the abuse is undeniable.