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[quote=Anonymous]OP here and if you can just humor me, allow me to talk this through.  A thought exercise.

So in the past couple years, I have discovered that at least three of my friends are trump supporters.  Not very close friends, but decades-long friendships, and I still keep in frequent contact with the one.  My friends are not evil people, although I have always kept them at arm's length to some extent for one reason or another. And looking back on it, it was because I saw that they could be very mean to certain people that they identified as "enemies".  And as I'm writing, I'm realizing they've always had drama-driven lives, had big feelings - both love and hate, and saw things in black and white to a certain extent - as in either you were good or bad, you were cool or uncool, you were a winner or a loser.  If you are their close friend, they will be fiercely loyal and protective, and supportive.

I was so surprised to learn that they were trump supporters however.  But it was eye-opening.  A huge part of me finds it really hard to understand how any decent person could support someone so devoid of any moral compass, a leader who supports white supremacists, clearly a misogynist, a racist, a habitual liar to the people, stokes hate throughout the country and pushes policies that take away power from the powerless and give more power to the powerful.  But I'm learning that apparently, it is not a far reach for a lot of people, even within my own friends.

Nearly half the country voted for this guy.  This is what I'm trying to come to terms with. Nearly half the country wanted HIM as our president.  I think about that a LOT.

So what - are we supposed to reject that half of our country?  Declare them toxic and "bad" and reject them?  How can we move forward as a nation, unless we come together somehow, as a nation of our people?  All our people?  [/quote]

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