5 Absolutely Wrong Ways To Respond To Remorseful Trump Voters

[Ken Burch]

2. This is about people who realized those things

it's not about feeling sorry for them, as this passage deals with:

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"I have absolutely no sympathy for these people. Fuck them."
You don't have to have sympathy for them. You don't have to love them or like them or make babies with them. But you do have to recognize that if you don't at least acknowledge their regret as a step toward positive change, you are perpetuating the problem. By hurling insults and anger, you are actively preventing them from coming around to your side's way of thinking.
I used to be a steadfast conservative. I'm talking the "abortion is wrong and gay people are a plague" type. I'm not that way anymore, but I didn't get there on my own. I talked to people who didn't blow me off as a raging lunatic. They didn't scream at me or throw handfuls of shit. They explained why they thought I was wrong, and guess what? Over time, I found that I actually agreed with them. If I had been met with nothing but hatred and insults, my only reaction would have been "Go fuck half of yourself. Then take a break. Then come back and fuck the other half of yourself."