America Great again!

[Iroscato]

So, calling Trump supporters Nazis doesn't work. Insulting them doesn't work. Dismissing their views out of hand and turning your noses up at their mere presence does. Not. Work.
How do I know this? I was watching the entire fucking omnishambles leading up to the election, and the ceaseless tirade against Trump and his fans. I freely admit I participated in that tirade as well. Guess what? He still got elected. "We" lost. "They" won.

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How's about for once, just for the hell of it, we sit down and talk to "the other side" and see what they have to say, exchange ideas peacefully? It's so easy to divide ourselves by lines of race, political views, religion, class, gender and sexuality, and it's fucking difficult to keep a civil conversation going with those who you see as the enemy.
I'm gonna try to take the hard route more often, 'cause look where the fucking easy road got us. Then maybe we can stop fighting amongst ourselves and focus our energy on taking down the rich cunts who benefit from our squabbling.

Regards,
A drunk, pissed off and introspective Iro.

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Right, so you're only saying this "let's exchange ideas peacefully" stuff because he actually won?

Pretty much yeah - but not quite in the way you might be thinking. His victory was a pretty massive shock to my system, it shook me out of quite a comfortable, arrogant even, place mentally. Over the past few days I've done a lot of thinking, and in hindsight of course he won. I was a blind fool for not seeing it, mea culpa.
I'm saying it because I was so very sure Clinton was going to win, so right now I'm undergoing a mental 180 in how to approach and deal with this movement that frankly speaking, scares the shit out of me. I believe a change of tack is in order, so that both left and right are no longer screaming at each other with the usual levels of hatred.