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Originally Posted by westopher
The whole world should be worried and disgusted that 48% of Americans voted for this bad joke thats spent 4 years proving himself a failure.
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Not trying to call you out, but this type of view doesn't help close the deep political division in the states. Instead of trying to listen and understand why so many people have voted for a Republican president despite the party putting out such a horrible candidate, a lot of folks are just flat out calling ~70m people idiots. Think about that number. 70 million people. I'm sure the vast majority of them are reasonable people like you and me and not crazy conspiracy theorists, racists, QAnon etc, but you will never hear from them on TV or social media because most of them just go through their daily lives without making noise. Someone used the phrase "picking the lessor of two evils". Maybe this is also the thought process behind many of the Republican voters. The Democrat's platform scares them for whatever reason that they would choose to vote for a Republican president despite Trump. I think there is a lot to learn from this election on both sides of the political spectrum. If we can't empathize with others, we shouldn't expect others to empathize with us.