Why is it that all the weight has to fall on Dems to listen?

[Boogiemack]

Rural area that are heavy with Trump supporters DO NOT CARE to listen or even to be heard. What they are saying and I believe we know it is "We are racists, bigots, greedy and and unpatriotic. We don't care if you listen to us or not. We want to be exactly what Trump wants us to be and we don't give a shit what you think. We do not want minorities, women, LBGTQ people to have equal access to health care, jobs, housing, or justice. We do not want a government for the people or by the people. We don't fucking want government PERIOD."l

If you listen closely this is what they are saying and have been saying and I hear them loud and clear! They are not concerned about "law and order" because they continuously break the law and carry on disorder. They defy rules, laws, courts and common decency.

So no matter what Joe says and the pundits and folks like John Kasich say about we need to listen to each other this is a fantasy. When have they ever listened to us? If you can watch a man die with a police knee on his neck while he call for his mother, watch children being snatched from their mothers' arms, work hard and press to take away healthcare from millions, glamour for the ability open carry guns to intimidate others, support a President who calls soldiers who have survived capture or lost their lives as" losers and suckers" and brag about grabbing women by the pussy, why the fuck should I want to listen to you? What do you have to say that I want to hear?

STOP IT PUNDITS AND DO-GOODERS AND SINCERELY CARING PATRIOTS! Get this through your heads and know this: the other side does not care. FLOUTUS wore it on her back and she speaks for the other side. THEY SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.

I'm done!!!

[Earthshine2]

1. To stop listening and caring is to be like them.

I believe in fighting fire with fire. In general, I wish Democratic politicians were more aggressive in pursuing their agendas.

But, we cannot stoop to the Republican level of insanity and apathy.

[The Magistrate]

2. Never Understood That Myself, Sir

When rural bigots make sincere attempts to understand urban life and its requirements, I will consider making some attempt to understand their outlooks, beyond the simple condemnation bigotry and deliberate ignorance deserves.


"To say that to understand all is to forgive all is the Devil's sentimentality."

[BusyBeingBest]

3. Democrats are like a beaten or cheated-on wife who keeps trying to give her

husband (R voters) another chance. At some point you have to realize this is just the way some people are, and file for divorce and take their shit.

[UTUSN]

4. Yes. & our own who say we're "better" than that & we don't want to be "like them"

are complicit to *losing strategies*.

The O.P. has documented wingnut cutthroats, look how ruthless they are - tactics from senator TURTLE, KKKarl ROVE, ATWATER, Roger STONE, to name a few.

Forget "we don't want to be LIKE THEM." You can't be nice to Nazis. Other cliche: Bringing a knife to a gunfight.