I've tried understanding. Hell, I'm in the demographic that is supposed to have voted him in (white, working poor). But all I know is, understanding the people who voted for him aside, a great lot of the ones who did so have no reason to be grumbling, as they are not in the same situation as the people they just threw under the bus. I've tried to understand. But I also know that intolerance is the main reason for voting against yourself - and that is what they did. They must know that. I cannot condone the rise of hate and the idea that putting that man in office makes what he says (and has done) okay. Which is exactly what voting him in has done. Now you have people acting on what they only used to say behind closed doors. And I fear for my neighbors. I fear for myself and my little family as well - not because of violence...but because we're already bad off and now it will only get worse. And how soon before minorities and those being targeted by hate groups fight back (as they should!), but people like me and my family will either get mistaken for the enemy or caught in the crossfire.
Understanding is all well and good. As long as both sides are doing so. But we have one side that was indifferent to all but themselves and willing to pass the blame for what they felt was wrong on the groups they were told were the problem. There was no critical thinking. There was no asking questions. There was no studying both sides of the debate and trying to understand on THEIR end. There is blind hate, blind indifference and a willingness to believe the people that have been steadily making everything a mess are suddenly going to fix it.
And I'm still obviously pissy about it all...apologies, lovie.
I'm wearing my safety pin. And I hope that I can help. I just don't want to have to tangle with those who are the opposite in thinking and I'm too pissed to be rational about it right now. I've tried rational. It didn't get me very far - and being tolerant and understanding of bigotry has only gotten a man in office who will devastate our economy, drive the working class harder than they have been for even less, plummet our climate over the cliff's edge and undo every public service and social service that our society depends on (and has been depending on) since FDR. Arrghhh...
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Date: 2016-11-14 04:42 pm (UTC)Understanding is all well and good. As long as both sides are doing so. But we have one side that was indifferent to all but themselves and willing to pass the blame for what they felt was wrong on the groups they were told were the problem. There was no critical thinking. There was no asking questions. There was no studying both sides of the debate and trying to understand on THEIR end. There is blind hate, blind indifference and a willingness to believe the people that have been steadily making everything a mess are suddenly going to fix it.
And I'm still obviously pissy about it all...apologies, lovie.
I'm wearing my safety pin. And I hope that I can help. I just don't want to have to tangle with those who are the opposite in thinking and I'm too pissed to be rational about it right now. I've tried rational. It didn't get me very far - and being tolerant and understanding of bigotry has only gotten a man in office who will devastate our economy, drive the working class harder than they have been for even less, plummet our climate over the cliff's edge and undo every public service and social service that our society depends on (and has been depending on) since FDR. Arrghhh...
*HUGS*