Trump is president; Who is to blame?

[abaris]

Where's the left to be found these days? I really would like to meet them. And I even take regressive over the political assclown invasion we have to deal with.

Is there some commune left I'm not aware of? Something like a reservation maybe?

[Napoléon]

Where's the left to be found these days? I really would like to meet them. And I even take regressive over the political assclown invasion we have to deal with.

Is there some commune left I'm not aware of? Something like a reservation maybe?

Try Canada I heard a lot of millionaire celebrities will be going.

[Tonus]

Try Canada I heard a lot of millionaire celebrities will be going.

Hah, if everyone who threatened to move to Canada actually did, the continent would tip over.

[Whateverist]

I don't see the point in playing the blame game at this point. The more important question to me is "what now?"

Respectfully disagree. At this point, I think a post-mortem is vital for our country.

Yeah, I agree with Jester.  What's next is more important now.  But this morning I was dealing with shock, disgust and disappointment.  I've moved on.

[The Grand Nudger]

Where's the left to be found these days? I really would like to meet them. 

I'm hiding out in the woods in conservative country, the last place they'll think to look for me (lol), trying to dream up ways to make local food year round for the cost of raw material and then schlep it full price to filthy capitalist pigdogs and hobbyist progressives...being subversive and shit, why?  Are you making a list.....

[abaris]

Yeah, I agree with Jester.  What's next is more important now.  But this morning I was dealing with shock, disgust and disappointment.  I've moved on.

I wasn't really surprised to tell the truth. But I certainly was dismayed of being right in my pessimism yet again. I think I said it before, I have little trust in my fellow humans. If there's a chance to fuck up they will take it. Currently we're all in a regressive state. Pretty much on a global level.

Chances are that my next president (my in a very lose sense, since I certainly won't vote for him) will be an outright nazi and chemtrail tinfoiler. So I can relate. It won't shock me, to be clear, since I fully expect that to happen, but my disgust over that prospect is limitless.

[abaris]

I'm hiding out in the woods in conservative country, the last place they'll think to look for me (lol), trying to dream up ways to make local food year round for the cost of raw material and then schlep it full price to filthy capitalist pigdogs and hobbyist progressives...being subversive and shit, why?  Are you making a list.....

Try not to become the next Kaczynski, will you?

By the way, I like the word schlepp, since it's one of the German words you adopted and integrated across the pond.

[Whateverist]

Here is to president Trump. May his success be the success of us all. *tries a prayer but nope still doesn't work*

[Edwardo Piet]

Yes.  You are to blame.  And you.  And you and you and you.  And me too.

I've ALWAYS disagreed with using terms such a Republicant and Libtard.  I never ONCE called Trump anything other than his name.  None of this Drumpf nonesense.  I will not call all of his supporters bigots.  None of that helps anyone.

That being said, electing Trump has, if anything, made these behaviors even more socially acceptable because he himself engages in them.  So we now have a big a-ok to act like a bunch of schoolroom children, without even the people at the top as better examples.  So here we go guys, it'll only get worse.  People are inflamed, and instead of an antibiotic, we chose to drink some toxin.  Yum.

This is the thing. If the regressive left were actually "the bigger person", and didn't resort to the shit slinging themselves, who knows, we might have a different outcome.

While it was widely celebrated on this forum, I would be ashamed to be honest if someone I was voting for was labelling opposing voters as deplorable. I mean, if you respond in kind with that kind of negativity you're not looking to change minds. You're shooting yourself in the foot.

I'm starting to warm to your approach. I see what you mean.

I'm all about just saying what I think and being open and honest... but maybe sometimes it does more harm than good. I don't know.

I certainly don't think two wrongs make a right so maybe you have a point.

I haven't been myself for a while though, I'm still rather going through a bit of a paradigm shit but I'd mostly like to just be the person I used to be, tbh.

Anyway, enough of my shite and humility, you're probably going to think this post was rather silly and rambley. And not in the good way I used to be silly and rambley. I don't quite know what happened to me really. Well, tbh, I do a bit... it's my O.C.D. taking hold of me and limiting the way I approach life with my mental compulsions.... making me robotic. Before only Mafia did that to me but now all of life does it to me, it seems, right now at least. I mean... I know this is because of my O.C.D. but I don't know what's triggered it because I don't know what triggered the anxiety that triggered it. Ha, funny you spoke of triggered before. Yeah this post probably seems kind of weird and like a different person... I don't know. My O.C.D. fucks my inner-life over, tbh.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Just saw this post on reddit that got gilded 4 times. Thought it might be worth sharing:

I've been ranting on my Facebook feed to all my liberal friends who have been raging at this result, and who have been ostracizing anyone who even remotely supported Trump.
It's shit like this that helped allow Trump to be president. Grown-ass adults on both sides can't have political discussions without turning into argumentative children, and the rhetoric on both sides got to such a level that there was no possibility for connection. Everyone wants their precious comfort zone where they're only surrounded by people who agree with them, and those who don't are vilified. Because of this there's no exchange of ideas. There's no mutual respect. Division leads to ignorance, which leads to hate, which leads to Trump.
52 million people can't all be racist, sexist, straight white men. There's a segment of that electorate that voted against Hillary more than voted for Trump, there's a segment that begrudgingly voted for Trump because they simply wanted their jobs back, there were segments that could have been reasoned with, and possibly turned, if Hillary supporters didn't ostracize them the moment they found out they were voting for Trump. This "us" vs "them" shit needs to stop. I know the reasons for his rise is actually a more complex image than this rant is painting, but this was a big factor, and will continue to be a big factor if we don't grow the fuck up.
It's an unpopular opinion in my LA-based feed, but Trump's existence is everyone's fault. Politics and religion should not be taboo subjects. We're adults, and we should act like adults. Discuss, respect, change minds when new information is presented, or agree to disagree. Otherwise the extremists on both sides win, and people like Trump can be president.
EDIT: For the record I voted for Hillary and I consider myself left-of-center politically. The point of this post was not to take one side or the other on this issue, but to point out there's an issue in the first place.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/5...n/d9t9pmg/

Unintentional irony spotted ITT.