Some Schmo wrote:This seems to be the thing post-election that I am most obsessed with; how do I accept and forgive Drumpf voters?
I seem to be a long way off figuring that out. It's like trying to forgive the murderer of a loved one. Actually, it's exactly that, because the best of our country was just laid to rest. And of course, it doesn't help that you have Drumpf supporters who are obnoxiously telling us we should just get over it when we haven't even seen yet the damage Drumpf is about to do, but have a pretty good idea given his cabinet picks and business reputation.
i cannot speak for the Trump supporters who are obnoxiously telling you to just get over it. i am not one of those.
i am not a Trump voter, so i do not need any of your pity and forgiveness.
i have enough common sense to know that comparing them to the murderer of a loved one is about as crazy crazy as one can get. i too thought you were rather reasonable, but that, my friend, is insanity. if you cannot see the lunacy in comparing sitting across an aisle with someone who voted for Trump with sitting across an aisle with someone that killed your child, well, i am probably not the person to help you process that.
when you are viewing this and filtering it through a lens of crazy, it makes sense that the interpretation is equally crazy.
if you cannot see that there were rational people that saw a clinton cabinet full of mcauliffe, blumenthal, podesta, schultz and every other wall street and neo-con apologist available, and did not pick her, well, then you are just being a cult loser. if you cannot see the lack of credibility in the party that mocked the everloving crap out of romney for pointing a finger at russia, and now pretends russia is the new 80's devil satan antichrist antiglobalism threat, well, good luck with that. no matter what your belief is about russia or putin, if you fail to see what hypocrisy did to the clinton campaign, well that is your problem and does not then, after the fact, equate those that did see it with murderers of your family members.
i will say this again, in other words. Trump did not win because every person with the moral and intellectual integrity of a murderer rose up and put him in office. Trump won because he was the molotov cocktail choice in the primary and in the general election. and he won because clinton lost. clinton lost women, men, minorities, labor, millenials and more. she lost voters with higher education and trade skills. she lost voters that voted for obama, and abstained or switched their votes (me included.) she lost because she was a horrible candidate with zero ideas and ran in the most sexist, racist and condescending campaign we have seen.
to now, after the fact, assign all this morality to that choice, is stupid at best. clinton lost that goddamn campaign. and not in a fluke. she lost florida, ohio, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. she got goddamn trounced. rewriting the obituaries of her political death and demise, is like rewriting the ending of a failed Jackass stunt by Johnny Knoxville. it does not change what went into to the stunt.
she did not actually win because she won the popular vote. that excuse is embarrassing. she did not actually win, but got robbed by russia. that excuse is embarrassing. she did not actually win, but racist murderer equivalents now run our country, that is the crap that got us here. she is not going to flip the electoral college, you whining sniveling malcontents. we are not under siege by russia, you convenient-conspiracy-having pieces of crap.
our democracy can survive a bad president for a bad term. the bigger threat is the classist division that your clinton cult and the dnc were selling and the inevitable uprising it brings/brought. be grateful it went out in a civil vote. the alternative of having clinton's crap for any amount of time was clearly not appealing to most non-california americans, and may have been just a prolonged different problem.
our democracy can be fine.