Quote Originally Posted by Descensus View Post
I hope he meets enough resistance where at least the most oppressive schemes he wants to put in place are shut down. The best we can hope for is that Trump has been bullshitting the whole time and actually isn't as extreme as he presented himself. I wouldn't bet on that.
I have a lot of hope for that now. Fortunately, he has already backed away from several of his campaign promises. Having seen that, I can say that he probably isn't going to be as crazy in office as he made it sound. It is a huge relief. In recent days, he has seemed more like he will be just another American politician in the way he governs. He is still a scum bag, and I am majorly disappointed in the people who voted for him. It is sad and scary that saying the insane things he said had a lot to do with how he got elected.

Quote Originally Posted by Descensus View Post
Calling them all racists, sexists, and xenophobes doesn't help bring them to your side, even if some of them are racists, sexists, and xenophobes.
That is a real issue. There is a balance we have to achieve. I think Trump voters need to be scolded for now because they just did something extremely dangerous by electing the psycho. His fascist rhetoric should have wrecked his campaign, but it helped instead. His supporters need to understand how insane that is. However, I do agree that we need to soon take a different approach and politely educate people on the historically proven dangers of supporting fascism, why people who have never worked in government are not qualified to be national leaders, and the seriousness of outcries from national security experts (including 50 Republicans who worked at high levels of national security and three former heads of the CIA) about how somebody is too much of a national security risk to be president of the United States. People need to understand all of that. I don't know how to get them to because I couldn't reason with any of them no matter what approach I took, but they need to get the picture. For most of the next four years, we do need to watch out with calling people rednecks, racists, sexists, homophobes, and other insulting labels. A lot of people who voted for Trump are not bad people. They just made a really bad decision because they thought Hillary was a worse choice or they didn't know enough about what was so wrong with Trump. Being called racists and getting snobbed off on a regular basis did fuel much of the anger that helped the Trump campaign. So, after the initial scolding, I think it will be time to work on winning people over to the opposition against the horrible things Donald Trump represented in his campaign.