Stop Insulting Trump Voters and Their Concerns. Instead, Shut Up and Take It.

[BULLDOG]

And this is a good thang!
As Trump stands for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

Trump stands for trump. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[marvin martian]

Don't upset the snowflakes!!!!

Stop Insulting Trump Voters and Their Concerns. Instead, Shut Up and Take It.​

On Thursday, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by columnist Gary Abernathy arguing that Americans need to stop insulting Trump voters lest we fail to achieve “what’s necessary for our nation to survive.” Easily the greatest work on the importance of being nice to Trump supporters that the Post has published since Kathleen Parker’s “Progressives’ Shaming of Trump Supporters Won’t Work” (Aug. 9, 2019) or James Hohmann’s “Liberal Hostility Toward Trump Aides Could Galvanize the GOP Base” (June 25, 2018) or Michael Gerson’s “Stop Sneering at Trump. It Won’t Help” (April 20, 2017), Abernathy’s essay is a timely reminder of the importance of historical amnesia, and the urgent need to treat Trump voters with civility and respect and deference and reverence and adoration, no matter what they’ve done.

After all, the 2020 election is over, and so is the violent attack on the capitol Trump incited in a futile attempt to cling to power, and even if people are still dropping like flies from the deadly pandemic Trump catastrophically mismanaged, there’s no reason to be rude. You wouldn’t treat someone like a moral leper just because they root for the Orioles instead of the Nationals, so why would you judge someone for handing the country over to a pack of racist crooks who promptly got more than half a million Americans killed? Trump voters would prefer not to think about whether or not they bear any responsibility for the awful things done in their name by the people they explicitly told to go do awful things in their name, and it’s important for those of us on the left side of the aisle to respect their culture.


More truth at the link.

This WHOLE thread is SO

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[B. Kidd]

Trump stands for trump. Nothing more, nothing less.

Present day reality proves you wrong.
I don't have to.

 

[Synthaholic]

Outside of temporary EO's, what has your new El Presidente delivered to you?

Stay on topic, Short Bus.

 

[BluesLegend]

When Trump Humpers begin to act like reasonable humans again...I'll treat them as such

Too late, we hate Dems guts. Dems are to be defeated not bargained with.

 

[BluesLegend]

This WHOLE thread is SO
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Dems demonstrate how they have moved on from Trump by starting 14 Trump threads a day.

 

[Lesh]

Too late, we hate Dems guts. Dems are to be defeated not bargained with.

So you're incapable of acting like normal humans.

I see

 

[BertramN]

Don't upset the snowflakes!!!!

Stop Insulting Trump Voters and Their Concerns. Instead, Shut Up and Take It.​

On Thursday, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by columnist Gary Abernathy arguing that Americans need to stop insulting Trump voters lest we fail to achieve “what’s necessary for our nation to survive.” Easily the greatest work on the importance of being nice to Trump supporters that the Post has published since Kathleen Parker’s “Progressives’ Shaming of Trump Supporters Won’t Work” (Aug. 9, 2019) or James Hohmann’s “Liberal Hostility Toward Trump Aides Could Galvanize the GOP Base” (June 25, 2018) or Michael Gerson’s “Stop Sneering at Trump. It Won’t Help” (April 20, 2017), Abernathy’s essay is a timely reminder of the importance of historical amnesia, and the urgent need to treat Trump voters with civility and respect and deference and reverence and adoration, no matter what they’ve done.

After all, the 2020 election is over, and so is the violent attack on the capitol Trump incited in a futile attempt to cling to power, and even if people are still dropping like flies from the deadly pandemic Trump catastrophically mismanaged, there’s no reason to be rude. You wouldn’t treat someone like a moral leper just because they root for the Orioles instead of the Nationals, so why would you judge someone for handing the country over to a pack of racist crooks who promptly got more than half a million Americans killed? Trump voters would prefer not to think about whether or not they bear any responsibility for the awful things done in their name by the people they explicitly told to go do awful things in their name, and it’s important for those of us on the left side of the aisle to respect their culture.


More truth at the link.

Your OP is much too subtle for the trump Nazis to comprehend.




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[BluesLegend]

So you're incapable of acting like normal humans.

I see

Dems are not human, they more closely resemble a parasite.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

As we all come together to clean up the mess that some of us deliberately caused, it’s clear that insults will get us nowhere. Calling Trump voters “dumber than a bag of hammers” only reveals that you are unserious about moving forward as a country. Going on to clarify that you meant to say that Trump voters were “to a person, dumber than the dumbest bag of hammers at a hammer store that used to specialize in selling extremely dumb hammers before the health department shut it down for selling bags of hammers that were so dumb it was against the law” will do very little to reach across the political chasm. It may feel good to insult the people whose stupidity, hatred, and fear caused untold suffering all over the world. It may feel great. It may feel like sitting on the porch and taking your first sip of an ice cold beer after a hot day, or finding a $20 bill in your coat pocket, or seeing the face of an old friend who’s been gone for a long time. It may feel so, so great. But consider this: Don’t?

Instead, try listening to Trump voters and their concerns as though you were plucked from the cabbage patch this very morning, fresh as the dew, with no memory of what happened when we spent several years listening to Trump voters and their concerns. While you’re listening, you can show your commitment to democracy in America by murmuring things like, “I see,” or nodding your head in an understanding manner. Do not do that thing where you pretend like you’re coughing and bark, “Bullshit!” into your fist when the Trump voter you are listening to says that of course they didn’t approve of everything Donald Trump did. Do not accuse them of enabling a nihilistic death cult that is steering the entire planet into a lake of fire. Do not throw pies or fruit or bricks. Do not say, “What’s that? It seems like you’re trying to talk, but all I can hear is a thick, clotty bubbling sound, because you’re up to your eyebrows in the blood of your fellow citizens.” Shaming will never work!

WatF just happened here? LMAO!

 

[my2¢]

Instead of shut up and take it, I offer these suggestions in reply to a Trump supporter or a political discussion in general:

• Stick with the topic.
• Only paraphrase the person's point to clear up your understanding.
• Don't resort to strawman tactics.
• Try seeing things from the other person's perspective to see if it makes sense
• Stay away from cliches, be original in thought
• Control your emotions
• Be truthful
• If you're crictizing the person and not his/her point then stop and just shut up,