
Originally Posted by
Malcanis

Originally Posted by
Alistair

Originally Posted by
erichkknaar

Originally Posted by
Alistair

Originally Posted by
helgur
My expectations is that Trump is going to be re elected. I know I will be massively disappointed if that happens, but it will be even worse if I don't brace myself for it.
I'm not an optimistic man, but I'm going to continue to hope/believe the U.S. will do the right thing. I too will be horribly disappointed if they do not.

Originally Posted by
Lief Siddhe
Eh, I'd wager there would be protests and riots now regardless of who the president was, if all other factors were the same.....
There were numerous riots/protests during the Obama Administration for similar causes. Baltimore for Freddie Grey, for example.
Correct, although, none of them had kerosene thrown on them by the POTAYTUS like this has, creating anti racism marches in all 50 states. I have not witnessed anything like this since I have been living here, and my American mom who went to Birmingham in the 60s says this seems way broader than that was.
Agreed. Trump has been disastrous throughout.
It's depressing how contentious this apparently simple fact is.
The contention has revealed that about 40% of the country is absolutely and unequivocally working on utterly different moral axioms than the other 60%.
It's not clear to me how this split can be healed without large scale violence.
I don't think they actually do. Humanity as a whole operates on same axioms with few differences here and there. What happened, through years of neglect, they became ripe for brainwashing by propaganda served by likes of Fox news and then Donnie came and told them he will help them and drain the swamp, make their lives better etc. And they're still clinging to that, deaf to what happens in reality other than the one served by Fox. And is it any surprise? There's quite a lot of them living in states you refer to as flyover and even in the post above you get the feeling you would rather have them not exist. And then you act surprised they resent you.
If you want to fix shit, start treating Fox News as news station legally and not entertainment channel and sue the living shit out of any reality and fact bending the do on daily basis. And start talking with those people, you might be surprised how much you have in common.
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