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In reply to the discussion: Payback is a motherf**ker. For 8 years you Republican bastards [View all]totodeinhere
(13,688 posts)is the right one going forward. And it's not what President Obama said and I don't think it's what he wants. In fact he has said that many Trump supporters have legitimate grievances. It's just that they have hitched their wagon to the wrong star. And our nominee Hillary Clinton in her wisdom is actively campaigning for the support of Trump's white blue collar base.
We are all Americans or immigrants striving to become Americans. Republicans are our neighbors and our relatives. My parents are both staunch Republicans and they are some of the nicest people you could ever meet. And yes they support Donald Trump. But my mother is also the type of person who carries dog food around in the trunk of her car so she can pass it out to homeless people with pets that she encounters. And she also gives them handouts with information about various services in the community available to them. But yes she is a Republican. She has never known anything else. And while she doesn't approve of everything Trump says, she believes that things are so bad in this country that we need someone like Trump to stir things up. Of course she is dead wrong but she doesn't realize that.
I sense real anger and petulance in this OP. And I understand why. Many of the tactics employed by the Republicans over the years have bred division in this country, but don't you see that your attitude will only perpetuate that division? And what we need in this country right now is to come together, not move further apart.
So I got that off my chest. Now flame away if you wish.