"Defeating Trump is more important than all of us"

[Rev. Rye]

I'm privileged, it won't hurt me much personally if Trump gets four more years.

We as a people need to stop this kind of thinking. It's dangerous. Every individual needs to stop thinking he's living in the world alone. Unfortunately, we get lost in our own little worlds where we think only we matter and those directly close to us. We already know religion is not a solution, because it divides. Most people become to comfortable with their lives, they forget that others are suffering, because they are not as in touch with their humanity as they claim. Atheists are no better than theists in this regard where they prefer the comfort of their own lives over a universal understanding. Atheists, after all, are merely connected by the fact that they all share the non-belief in (god)s. I'm not suggesting we begin an atheist coalition, because honestly it shouldn't be about everyone being theist or everyone being atheist. Rather, logically, it should be about everyone being fucking human and owning their fucking humanity under the common sense understanding that we should be treating each other kindly and with respect.

By the way @Mister Agenda I'm not singling you out particularly. It's just that your comment there stirred a fire within me.

And even in that case, by the end of the paragraph, if I'm reading his post accurately, he's explaining how he figured out how insufficient that line of thinking was. It may well be the case that we as an electorate might be like emaciated dogs begging for scraps at a dinner table while two men are eating steaks. If true, I see the Democrats as the guy who tosses the dog some potato peelings, and the Republicans as the guy who decides to bite the dog when it begs for food. Potato peelings are clearly insufficient food for a starving dog, but at least that guy's not actively malevolent.