Some people are voting out of sheer frustration at being left behind.

Most of them earn a good living at a job with good benefits, and have little trouble making it in life, according to data on the matter. They're angry about something, but it isn't because they don't have the necessities for a comfortable, secure existence. There are other elements at work here.

the rightwing lying, racism, bigotry, etc has to stop - especially in their media.
It's absolutely unacceptable.

demonstrates our character and maturity.

He is such a classy guy. And as for why we have to be the adults, you have seen the GOP right? Good luck finding an adult there. I know the racism, sexism and hate that fills their hearts. But they are part of this country too. Just like Romney's 47%. We have to bridge the gap wherever we can as hard as it may be. We are one nation. And the President has to work on behalf of all and reach across the aisle. We can't give up on humanity.

We're not the ones voting and acting and speaking out of anger.

They've finally exposed themselves as unrepentant racists, bigots, and misogynists. They are the ones who need to "let it go" and accept that their time has gone and it is not coming back.

As far as I'm concerned every single Trump voter including any of my own family and friends can straight out go fuck themselves. I'll never look at or speak to any of them in the same way again.

You can't turn the other cheek to snakes

Sadly, I can not warm up to Trump deplorables...they are a racist misogynist group...just can't do it.

FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT

now I'm supposed to feel sorry for them that what we were railing about 2-3 decades ago when capitalism eviscerated the inner cities is now hitting the suburbs? Especially when combined with racist policies?

Stop blaming others for your problems

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps

Stop playing the victim card

Remember those words?

Fuck those people. They want to go the way of the dinosaur, let them watch the comet enter the atmosphere.

I appreciate Bernie Sanders call for unity but there is a big question that remains to be answered. Will DTC supporters follow Donald when he wants revenge and wants them to retaliate? Many of his supporters seem to already have extremist views which they apparently aren't ready to change and they have already threatened to take arms with a Hillary win. The worth of a person is best seen in defeat. If they are gracious and respectful, they are a good person and a professional. If they scream and rant and threaten, they are a disturbed individual and need to be treated that way.

I give what I get. I try to be respectful but if the other person can't be, I walk away because it isn't worth a fight. If they start a fight I will finish it because I refuse to be intimidated by a bully. Today will show the person that Trump is and whether his supporters are the same or are just confused people. I have been in law enforcement and I know how to read people and I can say that Trump will not go easily and it may get really ugly. I expect the worse but hope for the best.

and he's speaking the truth. Like Lincoln said:

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Tore us apart. All they understood and understand is force. Sadly.

where to root lies to this insanity? Does he understand that these lying news sites are cultivating this? This is not going away.

I should have said Joe Biden Not Bernie Sanders in my post. Sorry for the confusion!

If hatchets are getting buried, they'll be in foreheads and chests. Everyone who voted for Trump effectively voted to give a bunch of mangy, flea-bitten backwoods sister-fucking rednecks free rein to talk about lynching me and/or anyone like me in broad daylight, rather than in the safety of their swamp-ridden safe havens and klan rallies. Fuck. That.

and this election has made it more permanent

These assholes need to be held accountable for their actions. One small quibble is the worst racists I've seen aren't in the backwoods (or the city of course) but in the towns and suburbs. The worst thing is that people think because I fit the demographic, that they can talk shit about their hated groups without consequence. I quickly shut them down.

I don't propose we try to round them up, for fucks sake. As if it would be possible in any case. But we can't fucking forgive and forget either. They won't.

They are the enemy !!!

Everything they represent and the policies they enact will destroy this country.

I am not angry.

I can not find common ground with people who deny science, facts, and common sense.

I don't want bipartisanship with the Republican party.

They have already moved this country too far to the right.

They must be stopped, not coddled.

They must be laughed at and ridiculed off the public stage.

They are an embarrassment.

Republicans will be republicans. Not sure there is anything I can do to help them.

as a movement apologize and act decent maybe I will think about it . Amnesia isn't a flip switch

Not holding my breath waiting for them it didn't happen after civil rights laws or gay marriage
They just keep fighting equality and justice and didn't wake up just last June like this or hate POC because of NAFTA
They will fight our new POTUS at every turn I bet and fight her jobs bills just like they did with Obama so if it is the economy blame their own reps they elect . Let those house reps go
Really reconciliation for me not a top priority. Let us who are already together work on the dem platform points and the future of this already great country. We need to move forward

Even if you were not a specific target Joe remember they declared your country not great and weakened and a demagogue and fascism was their selected solution. They can rise and grow even more powerful with time.

Wont harrass them but won't let how numerous and far they got be forgotten

Birtherism, total disrespect for President Obama, Racial Slurs

What's eating at them? People who don't look like them...

After what they've put us through this election cycle, I'm in no mood to forgive Trump's supporters. They imposed literally the worst presidential candidate in this country's history on us---they deserve nothing but our scorn, at this point.

resent.

Just ignore the fuckers.

the white hot heat of a thousand suns.

That was a letdown. I knew he was a R (most are in this county), but this man is a genuinely nice person who drops everything to help a neighbor. He even volunteered to drive out to help my in-laws when their heater gave out during a cold snap.

The neighbors are also a Gold Star family. Their son died in Afghanistan and his two daughters visit their grandparents frequently. This bumper sticker showed up way after the Dem convention. Way after Trump's month-long tirade against the Khan family. Way after it came to light that that Hate Orange didn't even know what a Gold Star family was. Way after the "pu**y" grabbing Hollywood Access tape.

Seems like some Republicans have such a low threshold for their candidate that the only thing they require is the R next to their name.

I can't even begin to understand that thought process.

If I'm puzzled by how such a nice person like that could support Trump, you must be truly flabbergasted (and disappointed) since you know him well.

But it's nice to be reminded that not all Trump supporters are rabid and frothing at the mouth like the ones we see on TV. It's still a real puzzle, but it's a good reminder.

Those scum need to be closely monitored by the FBI AND CIA. A lot of them are outright traitors and possibly domestic terrorists.

What's with all of this let's feel bad for the Trump supporters garbage our side is starting to spew?!!? I'm all for us all living here on starship Earth, but those guys are just vicious. There is nothing we can do or say that will get them to work with us in doing anything. Infact , they are willing to even work against themselves to spite the Left.

Cmon, just look at how they are Savaging Republicans that, justifiably, think Trump is batshit and unfit for the office of the President. The tiny hand brigade is/was willing to sink the entire GOP for a freaking Orange Cheeto Nazi, Faux Jesus wannabe, Nero incarnate, Derptron 9000 that will throw them to the dogs as soon as look at them. There is no way they will be anything less than openly hostile towards us after this. We can be as nice as can be any it won't change anything at all.

Well, in any case, good job Deplorables because after today not only will the revolution be dead but the Republican Party as well. The only thing positive to come from Trump's run is that he kicked the rock looking for votes. NOW we can finally see all the filth that has been festering just out of site. You can't fight what you can't see.

It doesn't help to say "They oughta wanna." We can only control ourselves.

Does Merrick Garland mean anything to you? Collusion of the FBI and the Trump campaign. Gridlock sucks, but it's better than compromising with monsters.

In the same way that Bernie supporters have voted for Hillary, despite their views that she is not the best candidate, but she's the Democratic nominee, there are Republican voters, especially pro-life and pro-gun voters, who voted for Trump because he's the Republican nominee. We differ in opinions, but we want a strong country. There are people who simply didn't want a political insider. They aren't hateful. There are people who honestly believed that Trump could bring back manufacturing jobs, especially to some of our impoverished areas. They aren't hateful.

Some people simply overlooked the bluster and bullsh*t and liked the policy statements. Or liked an aspect of the message, weren't affected by the rest, and therefore couldn't relate. (White privilege at its finest.)

I don't hate those people. I have to accept that those people live in the same country as I do. I can't kick them out. I just have to hope that many of their kids have different views.

Frankly, I don't have the energy to hate. I have better things to do.

And realize that those who hate don't really have much of a life if they have nothing better to do.

I've had it with empathy. It's gotten us Republicans who are treasonous with impunity.