I know this is going to be unpopular but I am friends with and I understand many Trump supporters

[Ninsianna]

215. I consider these people to be backwards too, fighting as they do and embracing their own

ignorance and hating their neighbors, "one day"? This is already us, it's been "us" for hundreds of years.

I don't hate these people, I'm just tired of catering to their hate and forgiving their ignorance, and enduring the consequences.

If they care about the same issues, and about their health and well being of their families, they're going to need to pull back that curtain themselves. We need not send out missionaries to them and remake ourselves into whatever they need to get them to see the light.

I don't see how we're unwilling to let them have the chance to grow by not coddling them. This is not some isolated group of people living in a jungle somewhere, these are our neighbors, I don't think they're evil, I do think they're choosing to be ignorant, they're not helpless victims.

It's a mistake to pretend they are.