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Well, it's the morning here(NY) and Trump just won. Shocked, was slightly against him, slightly for Hillary. I want to wait on judging him until I see his actions. I think many of his words, as well as Hillary's, were clearly campaign words.

One action, by whomever would have won, that will please me greatly is seeing some reform towards the election process and this partisan experiment.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend -Thomas Jefferson

There you go folks. Even a founding father thinks it's morally wrong to discard friends based on political or philosophical affiliations. If it's one thing that Obama got right it's that "we're all on the same team" ...

So even Trump supporters all want a better america whether you agree or disagree with their views. The lesson here should be is to stay united in spite of differing views!

Ignoring dissenting opinions doesn't help anybody, it needs to be challenged or discussed without throwing ad hominems in order for them to realize error in their thoughts ...

More relevant than ever now.

So let me get this straight.

It's perfectly okay to support someone who actively campaigns against minorities, spent most of his time vying for presidency saying vile things against women and blacks and mexicans and muslims, is purposely evoking parallels between himself and hitler (Make america/germany great again, cast out a minority religion, and push for a sort of racial purity against the spots of foreigners), brags about being able to commit sexual assault and get away with it, and generally treats his country like a joke by pandering to the lowest common denominator by being endorsed by the KKK to the point where a moronic nation elects him as president because 'his opposition was a little shady'...

...but it's not okay to be actively pissed off beyond belief about this.

It's okay to molest people and trivialize muslims and mexicans, but it's not okay to loudly proclaim, "No, this is not okay, you are scum."

Because if you support trump in lieu of all of these vile character traits, you support scum. You may not be scum, but you endorse scum and that makes you almost as bad.

Hilary as a person might not be ideal but at least she had great policies in place and a great cabinet of progressive, forward thinking colleagues backing her and a party that wasn't pants-on-head retarded or stuck in USA Circa 1856.

Sometimes 'flaming' rules are just the dumbest things. IT's okay to be stupid and inflammatory and trollish as long as you keep your language is pretty and cleaned and subtle. You can say the most despicable thing but as long as you say it nicely you don't get banned, but call someone out for their despicable views and actions in a way that says "You're terrible and I won't stand for it" isn't okay.

Got it.

I would say that most who supported Trump tried to look past his divisive qualities and looked at the combo of being conservative on business while being an outsider who would fix government.

I don't think arguing that his supporters are just as immoral as he is will get you far. It's just not true. How could it be? What I think is an easier argument to make is that it is immoral to value his business and anti-establishment values over his character.

But to imply they have the same character as him? No proof of it.

I know quite a few people in the US who supported Trump and they are not rednecks

They just dont like Illegal Immigrants but they are legal immigrants themselves lol

Odd I know