As someone who lives in a VERY red rural state, I just want to say two things:

[ForgoTheConsequence]

If you voted against this piece of shit, fascist scumbag and all his sycophants in congress, I am so sorry for the pain that is coming.

If you voted for this Nazi asshole and his minions in congress, I have nothing but anger and hatred toward you.


Hate may be a strong word, but it's why you voted for him. I hope it was worth voting against your best interests because you're afraid of "woke." I hope it was worth voting for a Nazi because you were more concerned about trans people using the bathroom. I hope it was worth voting for a billionaire sex abuser because you couldn't vote for a black female. Fuck you.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

[pwb]

1. Good one Forgo

.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. AGREED pub

But I would use the word LOATHE OR DESPISE, hate is too benign......

[MIButterfly]

2. Thank you, ForgoTheConsequence,

for putting into words, much better than I could, how I feel.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Agree 100%

[Jit423]

4. If your area is a blood red as you say, a lot more people there like what just happened than you believe.

There really a lot mean, cruel people in this country and some of them just arrived here in the last 25 years.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. I live in the "blue dot".

A bit of sanity surrounded by insanity.

[RandomNumbers]

37. I live in a reddish suburb in a blue-ish county of a purple state

And the amount of hate I see here has destroyed any faith in humanity that I once had.

That said, here at least I see A LOT of opposition to the hate, and most times the opposition is kind and decent, rather than returning hate with hate. That give me hope but also sorrow that the hate faction is so unmoved.

[twodogsbarking]

6. You know, morons.

[wolfie001]

7. West Virginia's like that big, old caribou with the bad rear hind leg

The wolves slowly make their way for a guaranteed, nice big, beautiful billionaires' meal.

[Jack Valentino]

29. West Virginia had the very proud history of seceding from the Confederacy,

thus forming their own state and joining the Union--
since they owned few slaves in the mountainous counties of northwest Virginia,
and most of those counties voted strongly against secession...


Unfortunately, during the past 20-some years,
they seemed to have rejoined the Confederacy...

the Confederate States of the Republican Party
(how's THAT for 'irony' ??)

[wolfie001]

39. Strom Thurmond led the way around 1965 or so

Repulsive, nasty bigots. Every one of 'em.

[bagimin]

40. Strom would be a radical woke lib

compared to this shitweasel.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. i live in a highly red district. interisting tht many voted for obama, not clinton. nor biden or ms harris .

many are poor. we have a fair bit of homelessnes and that is about to increase .

[Lucky Luciano]

10. I hope they suffer immensely and die homeless

[MadameButterfly]

15. Only the ones who voted for Trump

not the others.
Many of the Trump voters don't deserve it either--the ones who just don't follow politics, fall for the lies, don't connect the dots....but suffering is the only way they are going to figure it out.

[misanthrope]

41. I often have a hard time mustering sympathy for the willfully ignorant

It requires little to be informed nowadays. All you need are critical thinking skills, something available to anyone if they choose.

There is nothing special about me. I am an average human. I grew up in a single-parent household. My mom only had a high school diploma in an era where woman had just been given the ability to have their own credit cards. I used public libraries, went to public schools. My college education came piecemeal from money I earned, grants and a couple of loans.

I have spent most of my life impoverished and half of it disabled by inherited disease. Despite all of this, I learned how to glean truth from spin and propaganda, how to see through editorial decisions made with profit margins in mind. I don't find cruelty, dishonesty or selfishness to be empowering. Quite the opposite in that I find it damaging to society and our future as a viable species.

So when I see how adults in today's reality have allowed themselves to be manipulated and deceived, I don't feel sorry for them. I legitimately wonder why they can't see what is so plainly obvious. Or why they don't want to. The answers aren't encouraging.

[MadameButterfly]

46. i'm distinguishing the people with poor critical thinking skills from the ones who actually revel in the cruelty

That doesn't make it ok with me. It's just a different level of offense.

Rather than punishment, i'd like them to learn. These people aren't completely lost like the cruel ones.
These are the people we need to win over to succeed. They still have their humanity, as imperfect as it is.

I don't know why they can't connect the dots. We don't know what they've been through, what adversity they've survived. With the growing income gap, people are falling through the cracks.

It sounds like you've overcome a lot. I don't consider you average. Give yourself credit. Not everyone meets your challenges the same way you do. I also suspect your mom's high school diploma might not be the only measure of what she gave you. Given that she raised you to be who you are.

Don't get me wrong, I have to resist throwing shoes at the TV when I hear them figuring things out, too late, and telling us they couldn't have known. I just won't enjoy their pain and suffering. I do think it will be necessary though, to right this ship.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. You do know about

Hoovervilles, don't you????????

[AllaN01Bear]

14. affemative master.

Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson. every time a homless camp oges up the sherrif clears out them. also there is one by the court house that is sanctioned and the homless self police .

[DENVERPOPS]

17. With our current population

maybe that is the reason Trump let Covid run wild, RFK Jr. is trying to get rid of the CDC and Who, as well as abolishing Vacinations, the destruction of Medicaid and Medicare, etc etc etc.

For decades and decades it has been joked that the Republican Mantra has been: IF YOU GET SICK.....DIE

The 'Homeless" population is a drop in the bucket compared to what could lie ahead......as well as law and order going back to the Wild Wild West...

Since Trump and these New Republicans first surfaced I have often asked; Don't they have kids and grandkids, or are they just selfishly thinking about themselves........Given all that they have shown us it is the latter........

[AllaN01Bear]

18. your last paragaph. first scentance near the end .selfishly thinking about themselves...

as i have said ,, they dont give a hoot, hoot . hoot. about us.

[leanforward]

38. And Hoover Hogs

In the 1930s that was the only meat on the table.

[yobrault1]

9. This.

[cally]

13. Yep!

Racism, sexism, homophobia, and hatred of liberals led to this. Reps are hoping it will continue to work

[misanthrope]

42. They have their litmus test to rely on

Look how well it worked in the American South for centuries now. The model has been expanded, oozing out from Dixie like a toxic spill.

[virgdem]

16. Totally agree with your righteous rant.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. yep. Exactly.

[flashman13]

20. Well said. Short, sweet and to the point.

[electric_blue68]

21. Righteous!

[Cirsium]

22. States don't vote

People do. Plenty of people in "blue" states voted for Trump. Plenty of people in "red" states didn't. More people in Texas voted for Harris than in any of the "blue" states other than New York and California.

[allegorical oracle]

23. Am in the same situation. Every person around me is a drumpster. I stay to

myself, only "speak" here. Causes me quite a bit of anxiety. But can't afford to move. Don't know a solution.

[soldierant]

24. I live in a blue state but in a very red neighborhood.

I am accustomed to hearing neighbors setting off gireworks starting in June, and continuing a few days past July 4th. This year I have heard two, maybe three isolated booms, and that's all.

I am hoping this means some of them are regretting their votes. Just a hope - but something is definitely fdfferent.this year.

[biocube]

25. Blaming voters is what losers do.

Trump won Missouri by 18 points and the higher minimum wage and mandatory sick leave won by 8. Where was the campaigning for sick days and paid family leave by Kamala? Being a centrist party on economics isn't working for Democrats.

It's fine to criticize the left for always shitting on Democrats, but at least acknowledge some of their criticisms are valid. When Republicans accuse Dems of class warfare we need to say "damn right, but we didn't start the war, we're just fighting back".

[rzemanfl]

32. So, you're a winner?

[vapor2]

26. I really want to leave here but hoping we can sell our house in due time

With billions more going to ice, God help us

[Faux pas]

27. K N R

[usonian]

28. Attributed to the Buddha: Holding in hate is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

The universe is a mirror.
So I won’t say what I’m thinking.

[misanthrope]

43. Well conservatives hate liberals,

– an example admitted by their glorious leader recently – and they seem to be not swallowing any poison themselves, but have pinned the rest of us down and are funneling the toxic liquid down our throats.

[usonian]

44. Here's the trick.

It not only works to their disadvantage (witness the recent ripoff ) but poisons their spirit.

Of course, understanding their losing game doesn't help me "appreciate" them more, as the Lotus Sutra teaches.

Anger does me no good (notice my righteous indignation in many posts)

If I can, I try to encourage friends and families (and DU members) to save the energy for the battle.

Anger (not righteous indignation) is always a sinkhole.

[dawgdan]

30. Yup

Fuck all you red hats............

[iemanja]

31. How many people here do you think

Voted for Trump?

[CTyankee]

33. I give myself a tight time period to just HATE on these people. AND I mutter the words quietly but forcefully.

Then I stop, have a snack and breathe slowly and calmly until I can feel more at rest.

[Emile]

34. My little rural hospital and health clinic is on the

hit list. The vast majority of voters in this area vote straight republican and many of them are on Medicaid. This rural hospital is literally our only lifeline in emergencies. Will the republican voters in this area wake up when our little rural hospital closes it's doors?

Very doubtful, they'll believe it was all the democrats fault.

[Mike 03]

35. My situation is similar

Very red and quite rural, with a predominantly elderly population that depends on one nearby hospital and maybe a half dozen homes for the elderly and assisted-living type structures. So far our hospital is not on the hit list, but I am doubtful a lot of the medical infrastructure we are fortunate enough to have can survive not only the Bill but the fact that our younger people want to get the hell out of this place. It is dying by attrition. Do they know who is responsible? I don't know if they get it. Fox News will tell them it's somebody else's fault and that the Bill has nothing to do with it. But the people who work in medicine up here are smart and brave and I believe they will shoot straight with out population and tell them factually if these cuts are the reason their health care and infrastructure are going away.

[samsingh]

36. i feel hate and contempt for the idiots who voted for this

but i'm also angry that when we had the power everything that could be done to ensure he did not win was not done.

[Upthevibe]

45. ForgoTheConsequence......

Thank you for your post....