[quote]Hillary supporters took to the streets and protested the election claiming it was rigged and demanded a recount. [/quote]
I'll do you one better.
From what I have seen, the people who were (are still) crying, wailing, and throwing fits of despair over Trump's win are not really that much Hillary supporters. They are former Bernie supporters. Darn near every person I saw extolling 'Feel the Bern' throughout the primaries are the ones having the hardest time with these post election results. Some of the woe, doom and gloom as well as just outright hatred toward people who didn't agree with them is just mind boggling. They manifest this all into apocalyptic proportions with the amount that they seem to be carrying on.
This just does not compute in my apparently feeble brain.
They castigate and lecture everyone who opposes them on why Hillary / Trump. What about the DNC throwing Bernie under the bus is it that they do not understand? Are they that blind to their own that they do not see how broken their own party is? (Despite the fact that the GOP is in no better shape). The candidate that they were so gung-ho never had any real chance of winning the Democratic nomination, because of subversion inside their own ranks. Post Democratic convention, they line up in rank and file and become the most ardent Hillary supporters despite the fact that she is the reason that their candidate was never a real option. Now post election continuing to today they are the most disgruntled people acting like children in the midst of their terrible 2's.
I forgot. Blind hate doesn't have to make sense.
[spoiler]I am not now nor have I ever been a Trump supporter. My candidate did not make it either. I am merely stating what obviously has transpired since the election, but no one seems to want to throw a light upon. I find this very odd.[/spoiler]
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What shocks me is if you show rational distain and disgust towards either candidate you're instantly labeled as a (insert trump/hilary) supporter without any actual facts. Makes me feel not normal.
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Those most entrenched will always be belligerent toward those who disagree with them, with anything. In this particular election, we were forced to vote for the 2 most disliked candidates ever. But I think it goes beyond the dislike of the candidates and is focused more at the disgust between the 2 parties/mindsets of people. What I mean is, the liberals and conservatives seem to be more at odds today than almost anytime before. There are always disagreements, but things have progressed so much more in the past 12 years that the animosity has reached near critical mass. Misrepresentation of fact, political trickery, intentional individual blindness to reality have all made it so that no one can even talk to others anymore because it almost seems as though things get out of hand as soon as there is a [u]mild[/u] disagreement. Rather than seek a middle ground, it seems to boil over into outright hate. One side can't/won't listen to the other, but I'll add that there are many whom should NOT ever be listened to. They're just too far gone to be able to reason with. It's sad that people don't even try to listen anymore. Their minds are made up, and then they take things into improper context and make things worse than they really are.
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I've been preaching that partisanship is a poison on progress in our country. And i agree wholeheartedly