Are you as tired as I am being scolded about hurting the feelings of the Deplorables?
"This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won," McCain, the daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), tweeted Sunday night.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/313294-meghan-mccain-this-meryl-streep-speech-is-why-trump-won
Racism, sexism, misogyny, ableism, xenophobia, treason, et cetera are deplorable and elevating to the highest office in the land a man who traffics in them is deplorable.
The majority of Americans are not deplorable. We do not have to kow tow to them to win. There are more of us than them.
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Gimme a break, M. McCain, you privileged, out of touch ass. 
hat tip to DUer JHan
So all I can say is thanx
and the horses' asses they are descended from.
I guess they hate the truth...
Not much I can do except 
They already were and are they just throwing it away for their hatred instead.
The country isn't just coming off of the Jim Crow laws. The Civil Rights act and the Voting Rights Act didn't just pass last week. They have been the law of the land for over 50 years!
We are not talking about rural hicks who have no schools, no communication, no education and don't know any better. Most these bastards are making a conscious choice to be like they are.
Honestly, how many times do we have to be punched in the face, stabbed in the back, lied to, f*cked over, kicked in the balls, spit on and made fools of before we figure out that we have a knock-down drag out fight on our hands with people who will not be stopped in any other way?
I think *everyone* who voted for Trump is deplorable. My point is that by dehumanizing these people, by assuming they don't feel the same way we do about anything and can't possibly be brought to understand the error of their ways, all that seems counterproductive to me. I think the endless threads about how awful these people are, how non-human they are, are about as helpful to our party as the endless threads saying Bernie Sanders could have won.
And I may well be out of touch, and your story is certainly disturbing to me. OTOH, I have lived long enough to see changes happen in the majority attitude toward, say, "race mixing" and equal rights for women. When I was a child, black people could not stay in any of the nice hotels in our town; if you were black, even if you were Duke Ellington, you were relegated to a place known as Edna's Whore House in n-town. When I was a teenager, mine was the only white face in protests against Sen. Byrd's filibuster of the Voting Rights Act. When I was a young woman the only female presidents of colleges were at all-female schools, and few of them. As an adult, I saw interracial couples stared at on the street. When I was in college, girls went to back-alley abortionists, and a friend of mine almost bled to death after a botched illegal abortion (at the same time, my super-wealthy friend who found herself pregnant went into the hospital for an "appendectomy"
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I could give you a million more examples, but is there anything more boring than an old person saying "When *I* was a child..."?
The point is, all these things have changed--for the better--during one lifetime (and that lifetime isn't over yet--who knows what more will change?).
I know things are discouraging now, and things will get worse before they get better. But this is a time we've kind of been through before. Protests can work, and they can change minds. The draft wasn't the only thing led to the end of the Vietnam War.
saying "This is why Trump won" (Variation, usually by ultra-left purists: "This is why Democrats lose" And then they whine when we don't listen to them.
I LOVED Meryl Streep's speech. But apparently, the meme that "we can't criticize Trump" is catching on.
