I Am Not Going To Treat Trump Supporters/Voters Kindly. They Deserve Contempt.

[TheMastersNemesis]

There is no way to be civil to these bastards. I am sick of their snarky bullshit and hate. And I will not offer any of them any now or in the future. We probably need and ugly divorce in this country if it were possible. To support a candidate that habitually uses code calling for violence against another candidate is way over the line.

The are NOT nice people. They are all just frigging nuts.

[MFM008]

1. yup

agreed

[Skittles]

2. agreed

there is no debating them - they epitomize the "ugly American"

[GWC58]

4. No way to argue that fact. They're a deplorable bunch!!

[cwydro]

3. This is about the 10th OP you've posted about this.

Then you usually self-delete them.

I just find that odd.

[TheMastersNemesis]

25. Yes I Probably Have Posted A Few Too Many

What I find is that the GOP, Trump et al find new ways to be more offensive every day. I want to believe that people in the end are redeemable. Some are and some are not. In reality I probably would not be nasty. My exercise if more intellectual and a way to blow off steam.

I do not see us moving forward with this crowd. The potential for complete disaster with them is just so high. There is something terribly wrong with Trump. And there is something just too twisted with his supporters to ignore or tolerate.

And I know that treating them badly will do no good at all. So we are in a dilemma.

[ffr]

5. A landslide would accomplish a more humiliating result

They almost always sports fans, so they know how it hurts to lose. A big loss will bruise their egos for years. I know. I've seen it.

[One Black Sheep]

6. Understood. I have seen other posts saying they are going to cut off family and friends who are

voting for Trump...even if they are close family members, like husband or wife, or children...needless to say, this shit is getting serious.

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. Yep - gloves are off - momentum Hillary!

They are not nice people - they seem to have ginned up the violence and I don't think we have seen the last of it.... weak minded people -

[FrodosPet]

8. I wish I was strong enough to hate people

It must be a major adrenaline rush.

I got screwed up as a kid by being taught to love everybody, and to treat them with at least a base level of kindness and engagement, in the hopes that maybe they can evolve into better people.

I know, that's pretty naive of me.

[Glassunion]

9. +1

[LanternWaste]

14. None of that sounds self-validating nor self-serving.

None of that sounds self-validating nor self-serving at all. But I'm naive as well.

[FrodosPet]

17. We should start a naive people's club!

Send $5.00 and an SASE, and I will send you some details.

I also accept PayPal, but the envelope and postage will run you another $2.00.

[cwydro]

19. Thank you. nt

[RonniePudding]

33. Indeed, it is pretty naive of you

The white nationalists deserve all the contempt we can muster. Your childhood lessons do not apply here, sadly.

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. Serious question, no snark: have you considered getting help?

You post something like this pretty much every day. You seem consumed by anger.

Plenty of people get therapy for extreme emotions brought about by current affairs and politics. There is no shame in it.

[whistler162]

11. WOW... self loathing at its peak!

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

12. Agreed

I know a couple and I talk to them like they're in the 3rd grade. I have no qualms with showing the utter contempt I have for them nor my moral superiority over them. Fuck 'em!

[steve2470]

13. can I give you some feedback designed to help you ?

I've read your OP's for a long time. I do my level best to be kind to people here, which many times means just not saying anything.

I'm telling you this for your benefit. You have to be the angriest poster I've ever seen on DU in almost 12 years.

I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings or makes you angry, but that's how I see your content.

Best wishes.

[TheMastersNemesis]

16. You Would Be Angry As Well If You Witnessed 1st Hand The Carnage The GOP Has Caused.

It is really hard to relay to people what justifies my really being PO'ed. Too many on DU are too willing to forgive and forget. I spent 24 years watching the economic carnage caused by the GOP first hand. Working with the classes of unemployed, under employed and economically disenfranchised at DOL was so revealing.

The GOP and people like Trump caused so much pain that it is unbelievable. I do not believe how far these pricks have advanced their agenda since Reagan. They have undermined so much that most American do not really understand how far they have actually gone.

People like Trump, the GOP and their allies are really just starting. They will dismantle everything this country moved forward on since Teddy Roosevelt who understood what it took to create a viable just society. There are so many destructive super trends they have started and moved forward one. And the damage is so subtle in some ways.

When you witness the savagery toward some of the populations that I worked with then you might just understand why I why I feel the way I do. All I know is what the GOP has in mind and they will support Trump if he wins, the worst is only yet to come.

[cwydro]

20. How do you feel about Michelle Obama hugging Shrub?

I got no problem with it, but it must send your blood pressure through the roof.

This is a free country dude.

You might need to just take a yoga class or something.

[TheMastersNemesis]

23. Michelle Showed A Lot Of Class. I Am Ok With That. Bush Now A Pathetic Figure.

I suppose you could feel sorry for George Bush. He has become a pathetic figure ignored and ridiculed by even his own party. His presidency did a lot of damage. Yet a Trump presidency could do fatal damage to our democracy and ruin our image entirely across the world. It already is on shaky ground in some ways.

It is the vicious racism and bigotry of Trumps followers who are the most detestable. They are blaming their ill on the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. And they are incredibly determined to stay ignorant and stupid. This fact i do not understand.

Despite ALL the evidence that Trump is a sick and twisted human being with virtually no semblance of humanity, they insist on supporting him and inflicting him on the rest of us. It is like someone trying to draw you into quicksand against your will. In their anger they want to destroy everything. And you cannot seem to bring them to their senses.

What is worse is that they present you for it.

[RonniePudding]

34. You must have missed the primary entirely

There are several nut jobs posting on the other site that more closely fit that bill. Loonix...cough.

[mnhtnbb]

15. You want to see the kind of crap anti-Hillary (pro-Trump) people are posting on fb?

I found this on my husband's nephew's fb page. I hid his posts a long time ago--didn't unfriend because he's 'family'-- but
this sort of thing disgusts me.




And I have never been a fan of Hillary. Big Bernie supporter. But I will vote for Hillary because
Trump is not only unqualified to be anywhere near the Oval Office, but he's also a nasty person. Scum. Lacks integrity. Liar. The epitome of the Ugly American.

I have unfriended several people recently on fb (not relatives) who are proud to be included
in the basket of "deplorables". They are women. I do not understand how any woman--with any self-esteem at all--could
vote for Trump.

I think that most of the women who support him must have been in an abusive relationship at one time in their lives.

And the men who support him are just bigoted, misogynistic, racist a$$holes.

So, yes, I get not wanting to have anything to do with people who are supporting Trump.

[kimbutgar]

22. They got Daddy issues

[kentuck]

18. Deplorable!

and they don't even look in the dictionary....they're proud to be called deplorables.

[kimbutgar]

21. I would defintely not feel respect for anyone who supports and votes for him it

Shows their lack of judgement. I never felt that way about Romney, McCain or bush supporters. Cheeto is such a red hot mess who is a lying con man.

Now I do have some in law related right wing nephews who were raised on rush by their right wing idiot father. I'm glad my sister in law divorced him. Neither of them are real educated or able to critically think and one joined the military because he had nothing going on in his life. I just don't talk politics with them because they are too far gone. And I laugh when they tell me they know everything. Only idiots say they know everything. I' m 60 and I realize I know jack shit and learning is a life long endeavor.

Also I unfriended them on Facebook.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. K&R

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. I consider them a death cult.

[bravenak]

27. You are absolutely right, no pandering to mean morons for me.

[Row_the_boat]

28. Civility and consensus is the way to win...

... In the short and long term.

[fleabiscuit]

30. That only works if it goes two ways. nt

[smirkymonkey]

35. Yeah, that's been working out really well for us so far.

[Row_the_boat]

36. I haven't seen that much of either in recent years...

... So I would suggest it is difficult to make an educated estimate.

[doc03]

29. A Trump supporter asked me what I thought about the debate tuesday morning. I told her

he looked like a damn fool and believe it or not she agreed. But she is going to vote for him because
Clinton is worse.

[sorefeet]

31. All the Trump lovers I know

are stupid, dysfunctional, alcoholic, racist, idiots. If Trump wins there is no way I could be civil with these people. In all reality I should shun them now. I might have to repaint my 10 foot peace sign on the front of my house with a 10 foot no trespass sign. All a Trump voter can do is fuck up my life. Their life isn't miserable enough, so they have to make mine miserable too.

[superpatriotman]

32. Bravo

They deserve, first, an education, if that doesn't take they deserve scorn and derision.

[treestar]

37. I was just thinking how

Rush Limbaugh enabled these people. They are stupid and hateful and their opinions are based on hatred, not any intellectual process. They deserve to be put back in their place. Fearful of saying anything because they know they are uninformed.

[TheMastersNemesis]

38. My OP Expresses My Frustration. I Would Just Walk Away.

In reality I am just venting frustration that Trump supporters are so brick headed. I would not really bother them. I would hope they would not bother my signs and not destroy anything. I am really not inclined to be nasty to people. Besides they could be armed?

[hunter]

39. Trump supporters are a basket *FULL* of ignorant and deplorable people.

Anyone supporting Trump at this point is a lost cause. You can't reason with someone who has got their fingers in their ears, their eyes closed, screaming "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" You can't reason with someone who has barricaded themselves in the basement with the other deplorables, their right wing blowhard radios turned up to eleven, connected via the internet to other deeply entrenched deplorables. Nobody is going to convince them to vote for Clinton, she's the devil to them. But we can encourage everyone else to vote, and hope the ignorant and deplorable people don't vote.

I think there is a large population of people who know Clinton is the best choice, yet for various mundane reasons, they will not get around to voting. We have to make sure these people vote.

Anti-intellectualism has always been a strong component of U.S. politics. Changing the minds of people who are proud of their ignorance is a lost cause. Mostly you've got to wait until life itself has smacked them multiple times with a tire iron, and even then they don't often see how their troubles and the damage they do to others are direct consequences of their own ignorance.