There is room in our tent for remorseful, former deplorables.

[Tiggeroshii]

The more we make that clear, the likelier we are to win in 2018 and 2020

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[bettyellen]

1. As voters, but not as candidates or leaders of any stripe:

[Kaye_NY]

13. I agree.

Thank you.

[bettyellen]

14. There is an unending stream of ex-republicans, ex-libertarians or indies who immediately think

They should be calling the shots, or held up as spokespeople. Half these people are fake, the others can wait till they put in their time.

[Shandris]

2. Of course.

The idea that a person can not be forgiven for literally anything is the groundwork for most of the vile bigotries that run our world. If you support that, well, you own it. Full stop.

[rzemanfl]

5. and the idea that a person can be forgiven for vile bigotries is the basis of most religions,

and all the problems they cause the world with their vile bigotries.

[Shandris]

8. Bigotry is an act. The use of a third party entity to perform bigotry...

...is not. Your comparison is terrible. Religions do not cause problems in the world, people who choose to interpret religion in a way to justify bigotry cause problems. It's a fundamental error of attribution. And what prompts that bigotry in the first place?

Oh, right, the idea that they are somehow different and unforgivable.

[rzemanfl]

17. Absolution, dispensations, inquisitions, holy wars, fatwahs, papal bulls, excommunication,

burning at the stake. Religions are so harmless. My bad.

[Shandris]

18. Yah, it's terrible how the religion itself forces those things on people.

Like last night, when a Catholic Papal Midas Bull came into my room and wanted me to seek Absolution for my previous Excommunication that the Imp of Separation delivered unto me. Suddenly, from nowhere, an Inquisition was begun by ghostly, disembodied voices, all shouting questions to me until I relented and sought forgiveness for my sins. Of course, since no people are involved, forgiveness was denoted by a little 'WHOOSH' sound, a golden glow, and a +1 to my IRL Strength stat. Once I had forgiveness, the bull went on his way. Oh, and while it was happening, I saw another angel fly overhead (it looked like six wheels, ringed with feathers and an eye in the center of each wheel -- see the Book of Enoch for a comparison) to go and give the mental suggestion via osmosis to the muslims down the street to start a fatwah.

I'm starting to get the hint this site just isn't for me anymore.

[rzemanfl]

19. Not if it gives you nightmares like that! Religion is a business. No product, no warranty, just

advertising, century after century.

[onecaliberal]

3. The tent was washed away or burned in flood or fire because they wasted time we don't have voting

For a greedy maggot collective.

This - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127110001

[VOX]

4. Of course, but don't expect any mass defection...

Something like 88% of 45's supporters are still thrilled with him. They're living in a completely different reality.

[LostOne4Ever]

6. If they are STILL deplorable in anyway, then "NO." If they renounce their bigotry & making penance

Then I am fine with them.

[rock]

7. Pass; It's a trick question

Sure there's room for deplorables in our tent but it would be easier to get a box of rocks to join.

[sarah FAILIN]

9. We need them

We need them to impeach Trump when it gets down to it and we need them to finally see the light when it all comes out. We need this country united, not divided. JMO.

[Demtexan]

10. Maybe some.

Some of them will never learn.

[Squinch]

11. If they don't expect us to abandon our most central values to accomodate them, then of course.

[Hoyt]

12. Sure, has anyone seen one?

[LuvLoogie]

15. Remorseful for what? For picking a loser, or for being deplorable?

[Volaris]

16. Define remorseful...

I fucked up and voted for Idiot AND I'LL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN is not the same as I voted for idiot because I thought he was a Really Real conservative and next time it will take much better Bullshit to CONvince me that fucking myself over is a good idea.

They're not quite the same IMHO.

[Nevernose]

20. Hillary at least defined "deplorable"

As the racists and sexists and bigots and xenophobes. Should we let them in our party? Fuck no, or at least not until they've done a whole lot of soul searching and changing.

The average Trump voter? The ones that were ignorant or scared or misinformed or just prone to making stupid errors? Those are the people that we have to convince that they have more in common with us than differences, and that our interests and theirs coincide. A lot of those people are not exactly sophisticated thinkers and they've been taken for a ride by Authority their whole fucking lives.

[ck4829]

21. What kind of remorse are we talking about?

"Trump has made life harder for transgender people, for refugees, for the poor, for Muslims, for residents, etc... and I am sorry that I was a part of that and I truly want to make it right."

is different than...

"Trump didn't deliver on his promises and I wish I never voted for him."

The second group will just vote for another Trump in the future.

[Union Label]

22. fuck them n/t

[GulfCoast66]

23. I was a republican until 3 years ago.

I am now a hard core liberal democrat. I was lied to for 40 years but was complicit because I believed what made me feel comfortable.

President Obama made me change my view just by being the good man he is.

I will vote in every election and am able to contribute to the party and candidates if I choose.

I welcome anyone into the Democratic Party like Christians ideally welcome coverts; Without looking at their sordid past.


Have a nice evening.

[rzemanfl]

24. With the power I just vested in myself I grant you absolution, dispensation

and an indulgence.

Go in peace and sin no more.

In the name of me, myself and I. Amen.

[GulfCoast66]

30. Thank you my brother

And I swear that I will do all I in my power to help those in my previous condition see the errors of their ways, repent, and start trying to help the people of this nation.

And you have a nice evening. Or night at this hour.

Seriously, there are lots of Southern republicans who are only marginally interested in politics and will return the Democratic Party as I did once we stop being afraid of telling them what the government under the Democratic Party will do or them. Or their parents. What the Republicans plan for our old folks takes us back to 1900 when if you were old, poor and had no family you just died.

[Tiggeroshii]

27. I love this

And it I this way if thinking that we can start winning again

[Skittles]

25. too soon

they still make me so fucking sick

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. Lol. What are we going to do? Force people to vote for trump in

2020 if they voted for him in 2016??

[cheapdate]

28. Don't care if they're remorseful or not.

If they want to support Democrats then we should welcome them. Here in Middle Tennessee we need every vote we can get.

[Doodley]

29. I think that to add a basketful of former deplorables would give us a landslide.

[Mountain Mule]

31. I don't think we need to hug 'em and kiss 'em

but if they decide to vote Democrat, that's fine by me.

I live in a conservative farming and ranching community - in fact, I actually rent out an old farmhouse in the middle of an alfalfa farm - and my neighbors pretty much all voted for the Traitor. Almost my entire county went for him. Not all my neighbors are bigots by a long shot and I spoke with any number of them before the election. For the most part, they voted as they did because they always have voted Republican and they were voting more against Hillary than they were for the Traitor. Not that I think this is a very good excuse for voting for such a sorry, sorry excuse of an human being. But I do feel that at least some of them might be amenable to reason - one or two have actually expressed regret to me for voting for that creature in the first place - surprised the hell out of me! But if they want to vote Dem in the midterms and 2020, I'd be happy to accept those particular lost sheep. Bigots, no. But bigots would never come around, anyhow.

[ecstatic]

32. I'd rather reach out to the non-deplorable non-voters

Why would anyone want to associate with deplorables?

[revmclaren]

33. How do you actually tell that they are remorseful?

Do you take the word of people who actually voted for a racist, misogynistic lunatic (who actually proclaimed who and what he was for all to hear) that they have changed their ways and now have seen the sweet light of liberty? Or do you keep them at arms distance so that they cant shove another knife into your back and the backs of other liberals and progressives.

Fool or hurt me once, shame on you, and no...I wont welcome you with naive open arms and let you do it again.