DU: What the left really thinks about the 60 million plus Trump voters

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Yes, the country is divided – and although that division has played out along party lines, it is actually a division between those who want to lead the nation towards progress and the easily-led who will swallow any lie they’re told. 

We have watched self-declared “Christians” abandon every tenet of their faith in order to worship a man who is the antithesis of Christian principles. We have watched in stunned disbelief as people rallied around a lying lecher who mocks the disabled, dismisses women as “meat”, and places himself and his co-conspirators as being above the law. 

We have watched in horror as our countrymen praise an ignorant, self-serving idiot who insults our allies, places incompetent people in positions of power, and seeks to dismantle the institutions that educate our children, oversee the care of our veterans, and protect the environment. 

There can be no compromise with those who not only refuse to recognize the rights of women, minorities and GLBTers, but aggressively work to take those rights away. 

There can be no “meeting of the minds” between those who inform themselves with facts and the mindless who simply choose to ignore the truth. 

There can be no meaningful discussion between decent citizens who cherish justice and the rule of law and those who support the blatant corruption of the Trump regime. 

There can be no productive conversation between those who believe in our democracy and those who simply don’t care if their “pResident” is a willing participant in allowing that democracy to be destroyed by our nation’s enemies. 

There was a time when we looked “across the aisle” and saw caring people who, despite our political differences, shared our vision of a more perfect union. Now all we see is people who cheer as minorities are brutalized, as immigrants are demonized, and as their fellow citizens die from lack of healthcare, food and shelter. We see people who attack children for wanting their schools to be safe, and belittle even their own war heroes without hesitation. We see people who proudly demonstrate their bigotry, racism, misogyny – and yes, even their own stupidity. 

There is simply no common ground here – no room for compromise, no reaching out across the chasm that separates those with common decency and those bereft of any sense of decency whatsoever. 

The Grand Ol’ Party is no longer a political party – it’s a collection of thieves who have stolen from the poor and middleclass in order to line the pockets of the wealthy. It is a group of corrupt traitors who don’t care what happens to their country, so long as they make a buck out of contributing to its demise. 

There is nothing left to be respected or admired – nothing left of what was once “the loyal opposition” that has now proven beyond all doubt that their oft-touted Christianity, family values and moral rectitude has been shoved aside in order to embrace corruption, avarice and depraved indifference. 

In the end, we – the true patriots who love our country and the ideals it stands for – will prevail. And when that happens, those who have sought to destroy those ideals – through their self-imposed ignorance, their selfish greed, and their hypocrisy – will be left to drown in the filth they now so enthusiastically wallow in. 

In the interim, there will be no peace among us. Thanks to Donald Trump, we now know who is willing to uphold the principles we once all shared, and who is more than happy to embrace a “pResident” and an administration bent on the destruction of everything we ALL once held dear. 

Now that we know who our real enemies are, we will not rest until they are defeated. And what happens to them as a consequence of that defeat is no longer worthy of our concern.

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