The Left aren't taking the Trump Victory Well

[Boges]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNi1hKi9Z5c

Sure these are anecdotal, but many of these videos are full of some serious hate itself. The Irony of all the hatred to people that vote differently than them and the idea that supporting Trump, for whatever reason makes someone a bad person is actually a rather troublesome trend. 

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29876/

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Universities across the nation on Wednesday offered safe spaces to students to help them process the anger and grief they felt as a result of Republican Donald Trump winning the presidential election.

Administrators, multicultural centers, LGBTQ directors, diversity gurus and other campus leaders emailed students and posted information on Facebook telling them they understood their “pain,” and advised them on where they could find safe spaces on campus to “process” the election results or obtain counseling.

Take the University of Michigan Flint, which sent three separate emails in the span of just five hours on Wednesday to console the campus community about the election and let students know where to find counseling and other resources. Students there also planned a “vigil,” according to one email.

 

 

I wasn't thrilled when my country voted for man mostly because he was young, attractive and had a famous former father. But I didn't seek out a safe place to rant about my frustrations.

Protests broke out in several cities last night. Seems so ironic when you consider the idea that Trump and his supporters not accepting the was a huge concern going into the election. 

Do we have a generation of people being raised that refuse to accept outcomes that don't fit their narrow worldview? 

 

Edited November 10, 2016 by Boges

[Bonam]

Had a bunch of idiots protesting here in Seattle. What is there to protest? The election is over and as distasteful as we might find Trump, he won it fair and square, and it's not like the results were close or ambiguous at all. 

[?Impact]

41 minutes ago, Boges said:

Do we have a generation of people being raised that refuse to accept outcomes that don't fit their narrow worldview? 

 

Given the pre-election rhetoric of the President elect on that very same subject, this is hardly surprising. 

[Boges]

40 minutes ago, ?Impact said:

Given the pre-election rhetoric of the President elect on that very same subject, this is hardly surprising. 

And people were appalled by that rhetoric. Is the irony not lost on these protesters? 

[Hal 9000]

Recognition of irony requires common sense, millennial have never had the use for common sense, they're told what they know and nothing else.

[BubberMiley]

Do you think your use of the term "the Left" is so overly broad as to render your point meaningless?

[sharkman]

3 hours ago, Bonam said:

Had a bunch of idiots protesting here in Seattle. What is there to protest? The election is over and as distasteful as we might find Trump, he won it fair and square, and it's not like the results were close or ambiguous at all. 

I suspect that if you dragged it out of them, they'd support the Trump theory that the system is rigged!

[Bob Macadoo]

Subtract the violence, what is the problem with announcing publicly disatisfaction with a political situation?  Is there a best before date on political activism?  The problem with gen-x democracy is its a commercial break attitude.  I'll care about politics if I can fit it in between Survivor and The Bachelor.  Political engagement, not partisanship, should be a perpetual affair but we treat it like the Olympics.....I care about Usain Bolt running fast about the same frequency as I care about my Mayor flushing my residential taxes on his pet project.

[dialamah]

On the other hand, the right is taking Trump's win with glee - attacking/robbing Muslim women, painting swastikas, hanging black dolls.  Even the kindergartners are getting into it, telling their Latino classmates they'll be going back to Mexico.

 

[BubberMiley]

You'd think that, knowing full well that if the shoe were on the other foot, Trump supporters would be out with guns saying the election was rigged, you would let people just vent their anger that the fascist guy was elected in a peaceful, constitutionally sound protest, but no, Boges has a point to make about "The Left" and now is the time to make it.

[Boges]

28 minutes ago, BubberMiley said:

You'd think that, knowing full well that if the shoe were on the other foot, Trump supporters would be out with guns saying the election was rigged, you would let people just vent their anger that the fascist guy was elected in a peaceful, constitutionally sound protest, but no, Boges has a point to make about "The Left" and now is the time to make it.

And had Hillary won, and Conservatives protested, there'd be widespread accusations of not respecting the political process and being sore losers. 

So it seems more than a little funny that we so protests for a president that was elected fair and square. 

The left should be protesting the 10 million or so people who voted for Obama but stayed home this week. 

[Moonlight Graham]

5 hours ago, Boges said:

Do we have a generation of people being raised that refuse to accept outcomes that don't fit their narrow worldview?

When Obama was elected lots of people from the right, like Donald Trump, didn't accept it and kept the whole birther thing going for years.

Protesting or whining on Youtube or whatever is harmless, people have a right to not like someone and show their displeasure.

[BubberMiley]

33 minutes ago, Boges said:

The left should be protesting the 10 million or so people who voted for Obama but stayed home this week. 

I think they're protesting the president, not the process.

[bush_cheney2004]

1 hour ago, dialamah said:

On the other hand, the right is taking Trump's win with glee - attacking/robbing Muslim women, painting swastikas, hanging black dolls.  Even the kindergartners are getting into it, telling their Latino classmates they'll be going back to Mexico.

 

If their classmates are illegal immigrants, they should be deported.    How popular would those kind of protests be ?

Edited November 11, 2016 by bush_cheney2004

[Bonam]

21 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:

When Obama was elected lots of people from the right, like Donald Trump, didn't accept it and kept the whole birther thing going for years.

Protesting or whining on Youtube or whatever is harmless, people have a right to not like someone and show their displeasure.

Yeah people have the right to show their displeasure, free speech and all. But it's dumb. Just like it was dumb after Obama won, too. 

[Guest]

Some seem to think people are simply angry because their candidate lost; which, couldn't be further from the truth. People are incensed because a man that bragged about walking in on underage girls changing won. We're shocked because a man that likes the idea of stop and frisk, torture and using nukes as leverage won. We're livid because a man that condemned a specific religion and referred to a race of people as rapists and criminals won. The same man who said he can do whatever he wants to women, even "grab them by the pussy".  So this isn't sour grapes over differing political ideas; a vile, disgusting, hateful SOB just had his sickening, bigoted words and acts sanctified.

This isn't something we agree to disagree over; support for Trump is something that causes friends and family members to lose touch.

[OftenWrong]

Many on the left have become completely discombobulated. Some of these people can't even finish a coherent sentance...

[Hal 9000]

2 hours ago, dialamah said:

On the other hand, the right is taking Trump's win with glee - attacking/robbing Muslim women, painting swastikas, hanging black dolls.  Even the kindergartners are getting into it, telling their Latino classmates they'll be going back to Mexico.

 

We don't know that it's people on the right doing this do we?  Also, If it is, it's a small minority of radicals that you'd find no matter what political party and no matter who won.

[bush_cheney2004]

Trump supporters have rights too....the right to vote...the right to protest...and the right to demand that illegals be deported.   If the election had gone Clinton's way, protests by Trumpsters would be uniformly condemned as wrong and "mean spirited" by progressives.

Edited November 11, 2016 by bush_cheney2004

[Bonam]

52 minutes ago, Slick said:

Some seem to think people are simply angry because their candidate lost; which, couldn't be further from the truth. People are incensed because a man that bragged about walking in on underage girls changing won. We're shocked because a man that likes the idea of stop and frisk, torture and using nukes as leverage won. We're livid because a man that condemned a specific religion and referred to a race of people as rapists and criminals won. The same man who said he can do whatever he wants to women, even "grab them by the pussy".  So this isn't sour grapes over differing political ideas; a vile, disgusting, hateful SOB just had his sickening, bigoted words and acts sanctified.

This isn't something we agree to disagree over; support for Trump is something that causes friends and family members to lose touch.

Despite all the terrible things Trump said, he won the election. Now that he won, barring unforeseen circumstances between now and the inauguration date, he will become president. The peaceful and orderly transfer of power from one administration to the next is a cornerstone of American democracy. 

As for friends and families shunning each other over political disagreements... that's stupid. People shouldn't let the idiotic staged performances of corrupt incompetents a thousand miles away influence their personal lives. 

[BubberMiley]

54 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

Many on the left have become completely discombobulated. Some of these people can't even finish a coherent sentance...

They have reason to be discombobulated because the right opted for scorched earth, and while their sentences may be incomplete, they can at least spell the word.

[BubberMiley]

3 minutes ago, Bonam said:

As for friends and families shunning each other over political disagreements... that's stupid. People shouldn't let the idiotic staged performances of corrupt incompetents a thousand miles away influence their personal lives. 

But why surround yourself with people you no longer respect? That just breeds negative energy.

[Bonam]

Just now, BubberMiley said:

But why surround yourself with people you no longer respect? That just breeds negative energy.

If I respected someone before, i.e. if they were a real friend as opposed to a casual acquaintance, then a political disagreement will not break that respect. Presumably there was a reason for me to respect them, enjoy their company, etc. And the fact that some idiot won an election shouldn't affect that. Most people, when you talk to them in person, are much more reasonable than the hyper-partisan positions you see espoused in the media. As for family members, these are the very few people in the world from which you should be able to expect unconditional love. Isn't much of a family if some jerk on TV can break it up. 

If people really split up with their families because of the partisan divide, then the hatred and enmity is only a spark away from all out civil war. 

[Hal 9000]

I gotta say, there are at least some talented people in the mobs, those Trump effigies look pretty good.  

[DogOnPorch]

Naturally, Trump supporters are now painting Swastikas on things and beating-up poor Muslims...well...because the media told you. And we all know how well they can be...tru...hahahahah....trust...sorry (snicker)....trusted.