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And Trump being a despicable scumbag IS the topic...
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Not necessarily. While I agree that Trump is not what I would describe as "desirable", what his presidency will look like has yet to be seen. I don't hold with the people who ardently defend him, nor with those who are heaping hate on him, but most of the vitriol is based on what people are certain he
will do. I'm hoping it won't be as bad as some are sure it will, while I'm also worried that it might.
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...because that's the reason why your country right now is quite torn apart.
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Not so. I have to agree with our right-leaning members on this one. The sole reason our country is being torn apart right now is the hate (not anger, which implies a reason, but simple hate) the other side has for him. The left hated Bush before the 2000 election, and they hated him before we went into Iraq. Those outcomes only gave them the reason they were already looking for. Likewise the obvious disdain the Right has for Hillary. While there are reasons to dislike them both, I don't see the venom from either side as warranted.
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Do you believe, or rather guesstimate, that Hillary would have created such severely negative responses world wide?
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No, but not for the reasons you project. While people can vilify the Right in this country (and much of it is deserved), I don't believe the Right would have made the huge deal out of it that the Left is. I'm not talking about the Powers That Be in this case, but what I've seen from the common people. As I've said before, I've unfriended several people on FaceBook because of their continuing habit of reposting hate pictures, sometimes five or six times every day. One of them was from the Right, but by-and-large those people keep it to a reasonable level. The Left, not so much.
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And If not: really just because of CNN and the evil liberal media?
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No. It's because people are so wrapped up in what they believe is absolute truth that they don't care about the real problems, just their need to hate whatever they disagree with.
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Trump is the problem, so we're right on topic.
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Actually,
you are the problem. Not you personally, but everybody on both sides of this question who see it as an absolute, and aren't willing to discuss what can actually be done. It's always easier to say "I'm right, and you're stupid" than it is to say "Well, I could be wrong. Let's talk about it." As long as so many on both sides have this attitude, the problems will continue.