The nation may survive, but the wound to hope and order will never fully heal - US elections 2016: the october surprises

It's not just that, but as how's life says, they're 'red state citizens', so the idea that they're the responsibility of Democrats and their constituents is ridiculous. Especially because so many of them are state righters as well. There's almost nothing to do for them, because they refuse to engage with anyone. They complain there's a health crisis, but vote for governors who withhold medicare expansion for them. What on earth are anyone supposed to do?

yep. the last two paragraphs of your link sum it up nicely

Why all this hate, huh? Why can't I just be a nice, empathetic liberal? Because we're no longer dealing with anything approaching a rational opponent. Today, John McCain said in an interview that Republicans in the Senate would block any Supreme Court nominee from a President Hillary Clinton. "I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up," McCain really did say.

So we're facing a party that is trying to prevent people from voting, with a nominee that is actively inciting people to possible violence in order to undermine the very democracy that got him this goddamn far, and has elected officials who have made it their jobs to simply undo the will of the majority of Americans. I ain't playing nice with shitheels and ratfuckers, and I won't abide pompous blowhards and the fools who follow them.

No we don't.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/10/yeah-sorry-but-fuck-donald-trumps.html

― El Tomboto, Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:01 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good link

politically suppressing/oppressing minorities is wrong but these people aren't oppressed in any meaningful sense of the term. they get to vote, they have free speech, they receive the benefits of civil society - they are fully integrated into the American political landscape. acting like somehow we are obliged to get along with them is ridiculous.

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Well, I think there are people who are in pain who are just fucking morons. I'm not talking about Trump himself or the die-hards who are still cleaving to him, but the people who regularly vote Republican because that's the Christian party or because "jobs". I would like to think we can do things to help them and change their minds without compromising our own progressive direction. Maybe we just haven't thought of what to do yet. Like I said, I don't personally know what to do but I'm eager to learn more. Democrats are the party of helping people through government, right?

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"I will keep you in suspense" - US Elections 2016: the Final Thread