Fellow DU members please be careful judging Trump supporters

[JCanete]

99. There's a different way to approach this. If we know trump supporters are pretty far gone currently,

how silly and dangerous is it to turn our backs and wait for them to be the adults in the room? They will never be the adults in the room.

We NEED to be the adults. We need to understand trump voters on an individual level and phenomenologically so that we can diffuse them. If they are a bomb, we need to know which wire to snip. You don't just kick a bomb or say "I'm not going to engage you until you stop being an asshole." You figure out what makes it tick, because you are stuck in a room with it.

And with human beings the biggest and hardest step is to remember that those we dislike or think are evil are fellow human beings. At the most basic level, our fundamental needs and drives are the same. Operating from the underlying principle that most people think of themselves as "good," or at least think they know what "good" is, is a big part of that blueprint. Seeing their humanity enough to make that generous assumption up front even though they fail themselves to find humanity in others, is how you begin to navigate the workings of their thought process and to intervene smartly.