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  > We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly
  > half of the country that thinks we are severely misguided.
  > I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump.
  > But I’d like to find out, because we have to include 
  > everyone in our path forward.  If our best ideas are to
  > stop talking to or fire anyone who disagrees with us,
  > we’ll be facing this whole situation again in 2020.
  > 
  > That kind of diversity is painful and unpopular, but
  > it is critical to health of a democratic and pluralistic 
  > society.  We shouldn’t start purging people for
  > supporting the wrong political candidate. 
  > That's not how things are done in this country.
This impresses me. That is exactly what I was trying to explain to somebody else in the other thread, and I was starting to feel like it was a position that nobody else held.
parent lhnz 10 years ago

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