Are elections always as nasty as this last one we had

[Wyrd of Gawd]

There's a question I've been wondering; and that is why was this last election cycle so nasty? Seems Trump supporters are supper angry and mean people honestly. Is it just because things like Facebook and other social media platforms were used more or something? I was only 18 during the 2012 election cycle and I was honestly pretty clueless. I actually voted Romney. But to this day I feel Obama was better for America. I just feel like this last election cycle contained so much hate and vitriol. And the very very sad thing is that it seems to have spilled over from Nov. 8. It still feels like the election. I can no longer listen to my favorite local radio talk show because all they talk about is TRUMP!!!! It just is exhausting honesty and I feel America has become such a joke because of this. 

It got so silly I decided to quit paying much attention. I stopped watching the debates, I stopped following the news and it was so refreshing. And then my curiosity got the best of me. Now I feel like I can't even turn on CNN with some idiotic Trump surrogate getting interviewed on there. It's just depressing. And for me it's not really that Hillary lost, it's the fact he elected a total jack-ass. If it were ANYONE else in the GOP pool I'd figure out how to deal with it. But I just really can't take it anymore. 

But what do you think?

As I said months before the election, Trump will be the best President in history.  All of the other candidates were jokes.

[abaris]

I've been voting since 1988, and I've never seen anything like this. The internet's been around for awhile now, so people have been able to air their voices online for about 20 years.

It was the first election where social media played a major role. Yes, the internet has been around, but in the Bush years, for example, Facebook was nothing but a bad dream. Now virtually everyone is on social media and - due to the business model - gets presented with tailormade (fake) news.

It isn't an American phenomenon, by the way. It's global. We recently had an election where a Trump like figure ran against an establishment candidate. The internet outrage was pretty similar.

[A Theist]

There's a question I've been wondering; and that is why was this last election cycle so nasty? Seems Trump supporters are supper angry and mean people honestly. Is it just because things like Facebook and other social media platforms were used more or something? I was only 18 during the 2012 election cycle and I was honestly pretty clueless. I actually voted Romney. But to this day I feel Obama was better for America. I just feel like this last election cycle contained so much hate and vitriol. And the very very sad thing is that it seems to have spilled over from Nov. 8. It still feels like the election. I can no longer listen to my favorite local radio talk show because all they talk about is TRUMP!!!! It just is exhausting honesty and I feel America has become such a joke because of this. 

It got so silly I decided to quit paying much attention. I stopped watching the debates, I stopped following the news and it was so refreshing. And then my curiosity got the best of me. Now I feel like I can't even turn on CNN with some idiotic Trump surrogate getting interviewed on there. It's just depressing. And for me it's not really that Hillary lost, it's the fact he elected a total jack-ass. If it were ANYONE else in the GOP pool I'd figure out how to deal with it. But I just really can't take it anymore. 

But what do you think?

Not to mention, all those Trump supporters taking to the streets protesting and rioting, destroying and burning property, physically assaulting and attacking voters on the other side, attacking police, all because they didn't like the results of the election....oh wait! That wasn't Trump supporters! Trump won! That must've been the crazies from Hillary's side!

[NuclearEnergy]

There's a question I've been wondering; and that is why was this last election cycle so nasty? Seems Trump supporters are supper angry and mean people honestly. Is it just because things like Facebook and other social media platforms were used more or something? I was only 18 during the 2012 election cycle and I was honestly pretty clueless. I actually voted Romney. But to this day I feel Obama was better for America. I just feel like this last election cycle contained so much hate and vitriol. And the very very sad thing is that it seems to have spilled over from Nov. 8. It still feels like the election. I can no longer listen to my favorite local radio talk show because all they talk about is TRUMP!!!! It just is exhausting honesty and I feel America has become such a joke because of this. 

It got so silly I decided to quit paying much attention. I stopped watching the debates, I stopped following the news and it was so refreshing. And then my curiosity got the best of me. Now I feel like I can't even turn on CNN with some idiotic Trump surrogate getting interviewed on there. It's just depressing. And for me it's not really that Hillary lost, it's the fact he elected a total jack-ass. If it were ANYONE else in the GOP pool I'd figure out how to deal with it. But I just really can't take it anymore. 

But what do you think?

Not to mention, all those Trump supporters taking to the streets protesting and rioting, destroying and burning  property, physically  assaulting and attacking voters on the other side, attacking police, all because they didn't like the results of the election....oh wait! That wasn't Trump supporters! Trump won! That must've been the crazies  from Hillary's side!

You're a pentacostal Christian, I really can't take you seriously

[downbeatplumb]

As I said months before the election, Trump will be the best President in history.  All of the other candidates were jokes.

What strange world do you inhabit.

I don't think its too early to call it, worst president ever.