What will stop this craziness?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the protesters are people who did not vote because they did not like either candidate enough, and would have protested no matter what...

I am new to the US and I wonder if this was s common after elections here.

No, it's not common. I've never seen any of these sorts of protests. Someone in a different thread said that the last time there were widespread protests following an election was in 1840. It's virtually unheard of, really.

None of this is normal. I am shocked and dismayed. I don't know if our country can survive. I feel like we are on the precipice of something awful. He can pull back by doing the things another poster write - disavow the hate and alt-right, stop threatening the media, etc, in other words govern like a normal republican president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People have lost rational thought here. Not sure what some of you are reading or watching, but some of you are bordering on lunacy.
I understand your candidate did not win, despite people thinking she had it won long before the election was over.
I understand you are disappointed, sad, and angry. But some of the things being said on this site are way over the top.

My advice - if you need it, get an anti-depressant pronto. Then, relax and wait until there Trump DOES something truly egregious before venting your outrage.

He HAS done something truly egregious -- he's appointed a white nationalist as his chief strategist. He's also appointed a rabid anti-gay activist as his chief of domestic policy during the transition. He's bringing in tons of corporate lobbyists to help out with the transition. He has a vice president who doesn't believe in evolution or climate change but does believe in gay conversion therapy. I'm sorry if these things don't send chills down your spine. You must not be a person of color, a Holocaust survivor, a Muslim, or gay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hell yes, I condemn these acts. It's horrible and senseless and I completely rebuke this kind of behavior.

~Trump voter

I'm glad you get it now. It's too bad you didn't get it before you cast your vote.

I appreciate the civil responses from the two posters who gave them. I felt pleased to have some pleasant discourse, and then I saw this one which, sadly, is what I expected would likely come back at me.

Some people are incapable of accepting that voting for Trump is not synonymous with racism for many or even most people, and no, I don't "get" that more now than I did when I voted for him. I reject it. No matter how many times I am told by strangers that I am a racist, I know who I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes me so sad to read some of these posts about increased racial incidents, the protests turning into riots, and how hurt some of Hillary's supporters are after the election. Realistically, what can be done to help heal our nation?

Trump could do his job: He is the president-elect and the source of all this anger on both sides. He needs to act presidential and say something to both sides to calm them down. But he seems Uninterested in doing anything like that, and more interested in throwing gasoline on the fire via twitter.

Our contry seems to have made a terrible choice. Before the election. some said "how bad could it be?". Well, this appears to be the beginning.

[Anonymous]

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He HAS done something truly egregious -- he's appointed a white nationalist as his chief strategist. He's also appointed a rabid anti-gay activist as his chief of domestic policy during the transition. He's bringing in tons of corporate lobbyists to help out with the transition. He has a vice president who doesn't believe in evolution or climate change but does believe in gay conversion therapy. I'm sorry if these things don't send chills down your spine. You must not be a person of color, a Holocaust survivor, a Muslim, or gay.

These past couple days, I've wondered about this. I understand that he picks people that he knows and trusts, based on gut reaction and first impression. It's one way to run a business. Running a country includes picking people that you trust, but it also includes picking people that have your values, that reflect your values and the values of your administration to the wider world. While he may feel comfortable working with this people, does he understand what the public sees when they look at them?

I'm not sure that he knows or cares. But the country is in a bit of a state right now, and a smart leader who could read the public and respond accordingly, guide us would be helpful.

[Anonymous]

He HAS done something truly egregious -- he's appointed a white nationalist as his chief strategist. He's also appointed a rabid anti-gay activist as his chief of domestic policy during the transition. He's bringing in tons of corporate lobbyists to help out with the transition. He has a vice president who doesn't believe in evolution or climate change but does believe in gay conversion therapy. I'm sorry if these things don't send chills down your spine. You must not be a person of color, a Holocaust survivor, a Muslim, or gay.

Good grief. What a way to make things up and exaggerate. Your miniscule nuggets of truth are negated by your slop of lies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It isn't about being hurt that Hillary didn't win the election. It is the whole being terrified that the White House is being run by overt racists who are dead set on changing our way of life as we know it.

Maybe the Electoral College will do its job.

It's not about racism and misogyny. It's about employment. I'm not a Trump supporter, but just because Democrats keep throwing those words at Republican voters doesn't make it so.

You don't get it. Trump played the fascist dictator card like a boss. Make the downtrodden think that the brown person/Jew/gay person/Muslim/Mexican - you get the point - is what's stopping them from getting ahead. Make the angry masses focus on the minority as the problem, so then they won't focus on the real problem which is the corporate interests and other socio-political barriers that limit their economic chances.

So sure, it's about employment at first pass; it's about racism and misogyny after that. And it is about racism and misogyny and anti semitism and xenophobia.

He played the angry white people like a fiddle (I'm white, so I can say that ).

This!

Yep, another white person who agrees with this. There's only one thing he can do to get me to calm down, and that's kick Bannon out of the White House. As long as Bannon's there, I will continue to be "irrational."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hell yes, I condemn these acts. It's horrible and senseless and I completely rebuke this kind of behavior.

~Trump voter

I'm glad you get it now. It's too bad you didn't get it before you cast your vote.

I appreciate the civil responses from the two posters who gave them. I felt pleased to have some pleasant discourse, and then I saw this one which, sadly, is what I expected would likely come back at me.

Some people are incapable of accepting that voting for Trump is not synonymous with racism for many or even most people, and no, I don't "get" that more now than I did when I voted for him. I reject it. No matter how many times I am told by strangers that I am a racist, I know who I am.

Go back and read carefully what I wrote. I did not call you a racist.

You did however vote for a man who employed race baiting a campaign tactic. The racists attitudes among a faction of Trump supporters is nothing new. It's great you see it now, but a passing comment on an anonymous message board doesn't do much.
It certainly doesn't help the thousands of minorities who are under a very real threat, not in the way a vote does.

If you still think you are being called a racist I suggest you address your conscience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell yes, I condemn these acts. It's horrible and senseless and I completely rebuke this kind of behavior.

~Trump voter

Thank you! This is the first of this type of statement that I've seen and I've been looking. Now we just need Trump and other supporters to echo your sentiments and maybe we can start to feel a little less scared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes me so sad to read some of these posts about increased racial incidents, the protests turning into riots, and how hurt some of Hillary's supporters are after the election. Realistically, what can be done to help heal our nation?

NOT appointing Steve Bannon would be a good start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

He HAS done something truly egregious -- he's appointed a white nationalist as his chief strategist. He's also appointed a rabid anti-gay activist as his chief of domestic policy during the transition. He's bringing in tons of corporate lobbyists to help out with the transition. He has a vice president who doesn't believe in evolution or climate change but does believe in gay conversion therapy. I'm sorry if these things don't send chills down your spine. You must not be a person of color, a Holocaust survivor, a Muslim, or gay.

Good grief. What a way to make things up and exaggerate. Your miniscule nuggets of truth are negated by your slop of lies.

Different poster. What has the PP here cited that is made up or exaggerated? If you google each of the people cited, it is all pretty well documented.