What will stop this craziness?

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

We're mad as hell. This isn't just going to get brushed under the rug, or should I say, under Trump's orange comb-over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're mad as hell. This isn't just going to get brushed under the rug, or should I say, under Trump's orange comb-over.

WHAT isn’t going to get brushed under the rug?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're mad as hell. This isn't just going to get brushed under the rug, or should I say, under Trump's orange comb-over.

Then what do you want to happen? The decision to be overturned? Continued unrest and violence?

[Anonymous]

The election of a Fascist.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Trump needs to act like a leader. He needs to condemn his previous statements and actions and put forth an agenda that both democrats and republicans can support. He won fairly, but he needs to respect the fact that he lost the popular vote and make concessions accordingly.

[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?

Well, for one, Trump could stop appointing white nationalists to his administration. He could reject the anti-gay, anti-Muslim candidates for his cabinet and affirm that there is no place for homophobia or hatred of Islam in a Trump administration. He could make a speech in which he rejects without reservation any of the alt-right support that brought him into office. He could announce that his Department of Justice will step up its patrol of civil rights violations and assure us of his commitment to justice for all Americans of all colors. He could appoint a Muslim cabinet member and go to a mosque and say that Muslims are Americans, too. He could try to bring on some Democrats to his cabinet to show he is willing to reach across the aisle and will not be an extreme partisan. He could also affirm that he is committed to making sure that the United States does its part in protecting the environment, acknowledge that global warming is real and one of the great dangers to world stability, and embrace the Paris accords. And he could give up his twitter account and say that he is never going to play the blame game again or bully others with tweets.

I'm sure I can think of a few other things, but that's a start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're mad as hell. This isn't just going to get brushed under the rug, or should I say, under Trump's orange comb-over.

Then what do you want to happen? The decision to be overturned? Continued unrest and violence?

Evidently, unless their candidate wins.

[Anonymous]

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.

Yeah. I can handle Hillary losing. I've been voting for 30 years, and we go back and forth. I cannot handle the idea of a Bigot in Chief.

[Anonymous]

Another civil war is coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Well, for one, Trump could stop appointing white nationalists to his administration. He could reject the anti-gay, anti-Muslim candidates for his cabinet and affirm that there is no place for homophobia or hatred of Islam in a Trump administration. He could make a speech in which he rejects without reservation any of the alt-right support that brought him into office. He could announce that his Department of Justice will step up its patrol of civil rights violations and assure us of his commitment to justice for all Americans of all colors. He could appoint a Muslim cabinet member and go to a mosque and say that Muslims are Americans, too. He could try to bring on some Democrats to his cabinet to show he is willing to reach across the aisle and will not be an extreme partisan. He could also affirm that he is committed to making sure that the United States does its part in protecting the environment, acknowledge that global warming is real and one of the great dangers to world stability, and embrace the Paris accords. And he could give up his twitter account and say that he is never going to play the blame game again or bully others with tweets.

I'm sure I can think of a few other things, but that's a start.

the one HRC is playing?

[Anonymous]

The election of Trump coincided with the election of conservative and moderate Republicans as well as moderate and liberal Democrats. California and Massachusetts legalized marijuana. Etc. Whatever casual racism or misogony that Trump retweets, our country is not in the same place as he is. We are firmly in the 21st century.

There is a lot of unease and anxiety, about our children's future, about getting the right grades to get into the right college, about climate change, about wages and jobs and income inequality and racism and everything.

I think the election of Trump both reflects and magnifies that. I hope that he can continue to ride the wave and do some good somehow. Practically speaking, I think the feeling of the country needs to change, and I don't think either Trump or Hillary are the ones to do it. But the people are, and we will change, sooner or later.

[Anonymous]

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.