I’m just happy to finally have my eyes opened. No longer giving people the benefit of the doubt will save me a lot of trouble and annoyance. They made their choice whether they showed up to the ballots or stayed home as far as I’m concerned. They are either totally responsible or at least complicit in everything that…

This is all, horrifyingly, true.

Because the dozens of staffers behind every politician are the people who actually read and write the laws. If you replaced all of Congress with your PTA meeting the country would continue to exist. As today, the staffers would line up the key points that you and I could disagree with as the true elected officials,…

No puppet, no puppet. You’re the puppet.

Impeached by whom?

4.61 million Floridians voted for a guy that is openly racist, and has been endorsed by multiple white supremacist groups. Better?

A lot of women I grew up with (in NJ, not even a rural conservative part of the country) I suspect voted either 3rd party or for Trump. they won’t really talk much about it and won’t say for sure who they ended up voting for. Mostly they talk about how much they hate Hillary, and don’t trust her, would be scared no…

Right, we get that. But its not all this one thing or all this other thing. Its in somewhere in the middle, like it always is.

Which is better, to be ignored or told lies?

By claiming racism, sexism, xenophobia, or other fun castigations, you are completely missing that these communities are reacting to their situation continuing to get worse.

Trump’s not going to give them manufacturing jobs. And those alternative jobs you listed are just burning shit that we can’t afford to be burning anymore.

I guess the great crime here is that Hillary failed to offer up impossible and worthless platitudes to these folks. I don’t look down on working class people, my father certainly falls into that category. However, you’re selling snake oil to these people if you try to convince them that manufacturing is coming back as…

Anger is what created this result. It pushes both sides further apart when they need to work together.

This was absolutely my first response. Also, “how in the hell am I going to look at my mom’s boyfriend, a 60 yo white male, blue collar worker through and through, knowing he voted for Trump, and not do something terrible?”

Not aging well aside, time has also borne out how wrong he and his cohort are about almost everything. They’re batting .021 at best, and there will be no repercussions. There should be more justice meted out for people who divide a nation, encourage repression and thwart the American dream.

“In the distance a dog bark
Do he bite?
Kill my landlord.
Kill my landlord.”

Why can’t you understand that when a well-intentioned sheriff uses cultural slang that doesn’t conform 100% to our standards, it makes him just as dangerous as the serial killer who murdered seven people and raped a 14 year old girl!

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And, thus, you are the living embodiment of why we can’t get a living wage and universal health care in this country.