I despise Trump with the heat of a thousand suns but America desperately needs healing.

[NurseJackie]

39. I can't help you...

The fact you or anybody can infer that I did is beyond incomprehensible.

I can't help you. What you're describing is the fault of the writer, not the reader.

There was nothing in my seminal post that suggests I believe that anybody but Trump and his rabid devotees are responsible for the toxic atmosphere we unfortunately find ourselves in.

I disagree. Nobody needs to validate them by reconciling with them. It is THEY who need to reconcile and make amends. There's NO NEED for anyone to reach out and utter "let's be friends again" or "let's let bygones be bygones". Hell no! FUCK NO!

They are the ones who need to apologize and make amends. THAT will be the "light". I won't offer any sort of blanket-forgiveness to anyone who doesn't first seek it sincerely. NO FREE PASSES! No "it was partially out fault too".

We have become a bitter nation.

This is the sentence in your OP where it all starts to fall apart, where you're blaming "everyone" and not putting the fault squarely at the feet of Trump and his supporters. You said "we" and you said "nation"... that's everyone. It's an inclusive admonition that suggests we all have have a chip on our shoulder. You're also finding fault with OUR side... as if our anger and bitterness isn't justified, as if WE are the ones to blame and if only we'd been more understanding. (This plays into the "both sides" nonsense.)

...but America desperately needs healing

In this sentence, the message is clear. No matter how awful Trump is and no matter how much you personally hate him, you believe American needs healing (and therefore, we should be the ones to make conciliatory gestures to them.)

Obviously THEY aren't going to make the first gesture. Clearly there are only two sides here: Us and Them. So if we know for a fact that THEY will never budge, then your message is one that's suggesting that WE should be the ones to take some high road and validate them.

Not only NO, but HELL NO! Screw them! I'd rather drink an earthworm smoothie.

As Martin Luther king mused " Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Oh, good lord! Sure, whatever... Let's love our enemy and show them the light. Surely we can set a good example and our forgiveness will help them to come around and love us all again.

Let us be called the children of light.

Kumbaya.

No! Fuck them! No free passes! No apologies. No validations. No sympathies. No high road.