One year since the coup. My hatred and anger have not subsided, in fact I'm a ball of rage now

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50. I've tried, hard, and repeatedly, with a close friend.

The one who cursed President Obama every time she came over if she had bad traffic on the way.

The one who hissed - "babykillers!" in my kitchen when we were talking politics and I said something positive about Planned Parenthood.

The one who texted me about Hillary, calling her Hilldebeast, and then later denying she'd said that when I confronted her.

The one who hissed under her breath "BITCH!" when Hillary's name came up in conversation.

The one who also rattled off that "adorable" cliche when HRC is mentioned "oh, I want a woman president. Just not THAT woman."

The one who, when she still lived locally here, when I'd go to a party at her house, I invariably found myself in a group of her friends who were nonstop badmouthing both Clintons, referring to Hillary as a "bitch" and Bill as "Slick Willie".

The one who, in a room full of people the morning after Hillary's brilliant 11-hour testimony at the Benghazi committee, I overheard telling another woman there "of course she LIED the whole time!" I couldn't help myself - I blurted out loudly enough for anyone in the room to hear "NO SHE DIDN'T!" And she turned to me abruptly with a look of complete shock on her face!

She lives in a red state now, but comes back out to SoCal to visit from time to time. Claims she watches everything, not exclusively Pox Noise.

When I confronted her about the "bitch" part, she was so startled that she actually, physically, jumped! Her eyes grew great big and she gaped at me! I half-yelled at her, telling her in NO uncertain terms: "you will NOT call Hillary Clinton a 'bitch' in MY house." She wasn't expecting that at all, but I gotta tell ya - I'd had ENOUGH by that moment. Her reaction told me that she clearly was NOT used to being corrected on that. I surmised that she must spend a lot of time, back at home, referring to Hillary Clinton NONSTOP as a "bitch" without being challenged or checked on that by anyone. I suspected that when she's back home in that red state, she's surrounded by lots of people who think Hillary Clinton really is a "bitch" and don't hesitate to say so, out loud, as often as possible (with no one around to correct that). She probably lives in an area where all they watch is Pox Noise, and all they listen to is limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, that-guy-whose-name-rhymes-with-Vanity, and Alex Jones. I bet, in that environment, she freely disses us Dems, liberals, progressives, Hillary voters, and all Democratic politicians especially Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama and all those other good guys the Pox Noise-loving crowd loves to hate. I bet there's NO ONE in her circle of friends back there who's a Democrat, much less one who'd speak out or correct the record or nail any of 'em for lying and distorting and furthering the "alternative facts" they like a lot more than the reality around them. Maybe, if there are a few Democrats in that crowd, they're probably too nice to say anything, and maybe it's because they recognize how outnumbered they are, there. Well, I'm NOT. And I'm NOT outnumbered out here! And I'm tired of not saying anything because I'm too nice. I'm just sick of that, tired of that, fed up with that, and DONE with that.