2016 Postmortem

Because I refuse to accept the notion that anyone, or at least any white male, who voted for Trump is a racist. And there several posters here on DU who are heavily, heavily promoting that exact theme. If you think that's bullshit, perhaps you might read some of the posts calling a whole group of people racists, hill billies, stupid, ignorant, worthless, etc. Many of them consist mostly of, "Me and my friends are the only ones who deserve consideration. The others can go screw themselves." And I see why people would feel that way. It was a tough loss, a loss to the forces of ignorance, fear, bigotry and all that other bad stuff. But not everyone who voted for him is ignorant, afraid, bigoted, etc. People are more complex than that, but some posters here on DU just refuses to accept that. Maybe they will when they cool down a bit. I hope so, because we need to identify the Trump voters who are basically good people, and get them on our side. The first step, of course, is admitting that some of them are basically good people, but we are making scant progress in that direction.