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In reply to the discussion: How do you cope with watching Trump? [View all]ForgedCrank
(2,516 posts)the part I can't connect with. How a political candidate can cause so much pain to someone is a thing I can't understand at all. Trump doesn't bother me, I simply dislike him. He doesn't cause me mental anguish, pain, fear or anything else. This is politics, and Trump is just another human, nothing more. I deal with worse problems trying to drive in traffic to get to work in the mornings. I'm not scared to watch Fox news or other outlets either. I don't need media analysts to tell me how to think or interpret. I like to know what political opponents are thinking and why because sometimes, there are actually valid points to me heard. I don't need to be isolated and protected from opposing beliefs, no matter how dumb some of it can be.
There is not supposed to be drama, this is politics. And I'll be frank about it, I'm getting kind of pissed off that politics has turned into the vile sport and dividing subject that it has. People have grown to actually hate one another over this foolishness. It's a serious business, and Trump is a result of that behavior, not the cause of it. A guy like that should have never been able to rise in popularity, but that is the mood that we as an entire nation have nurtured.
Now I'll stand back and take my beating for telling the raw truth.