> The days of toleration, of nodding along and trying to engage with the crazy uncle over thanksgiving dinner seem to have failed. Indeed. But whose failure is

> The days of toleration, of nodding along and trying to engage with the crazy uncle over thanksgiving dinner seem to have failed. Indeed. But whose failure is it? > Everyone thinks that such people can be negotiated with. I don't think they can until they understand exactly what they are doing. You're assuming that everyone who supported Trump is racist. I know several intelligent, non-racist people who voted for Trump - they did it acknowledging that he was a piece of shit, but that he was a piece of shit who didn't hide the fact. He has opinions and he speaks them, instead of hiding them behind changing words. Further, they see him as a chance to disrupt the current broken state of government - by brute force of personality. Outside of the fringes of racists and homophonics [sic] , I think this is what won him the election. > They don't know that they are racist, they now believe they are the normal people. Painting everyone who did vote for him with the racist/homophobe brush ensures that there's no path for things to get better. People on average are not stupid - they're just frustrated with the state of things, and want to see change. Change with a wrecking ball is still change. As the father of a bi-racial child I'm terrified for his future this morning. But this is tempered by knowing that 51%* of the country doesn't hate my son or others based on skin color.* They hate where our country is going, and saw voting for this person as the best way to change that. [1] [edit] 47% apparently. [2] Okay, I don't know it, but the data strongly suggests it.