@nmlinguaphile My whole life has been this. When my family found out I wasn’t a registered Dem, they all responded similarly… “but you’re not rich!!”
Basically fall in line or get ousted.
Unfortunately for some, being ostracized means losing everything. Their whole way of life.
Call me a conspiracy theorist. The Christa Pike case was getting massive amounts of national attention. Anti death penalty activists rallied around it. And then magically Pike survives multiple doses of "lethal injection." Now she's in a hospital getting medical treatment (something her victim, who she tortured to death, never received). There's very good reason to suspect that it was botched on purpose.
@Markins Great post and something that’s important we should be asking. I as a parent am certainly invested in knowing such info. Btw, the link for the study in the article isn’t working… can you send it to me? I’d like to look it over.