I’ve got a record passing bipartisan legislation, working with Republicans, working with Democrats. And 14 days till payday. I know Trump said some crazy and mean-spirited shit. Maybe TNC is on the right track: There isn’t much quarter given to the racism that Trump inflamed, of course, but there’s a pretty elegant point made around the 24-minute mark. It’s an obviously intelligent person grasping for a way to express anger at “the system” but who voted in a way that instead may put everyday people at risk. And to them I want to open my arms and say, “COME. The silver lining is that this will be a shock to the system for many young liberals. I want Indian food and public transportation and cocktail parties. The whole theology is flawed. During their New Year’s celebrations, Europeans usually threw masked balls. But I come from parents who literally started with no money when they came to the U.S. as refugees. I know it isn’t easy being Muslim, or gay, or poor, or sick, or a woman, or a drop-out, or felon, or a college grad waiting tables in America. The average woman still takes in significantly less income than the average man. Not only is it unfair to my would-be opponents, I would be robbing myself of the greatest gift humanity bestows on me: the ability to love fully, deeply, even under great duress. I have shared the thoughts of Jon during some of my darker moments since the election. When it comes to coffee, everyone has different criteria for what goes into their "perfect cup." I am not ready to start a fire in Berkeley because they invited a guest speaker I don’t like, but I’m not ready to cast a ballot for Trump’s second term yet either. Sally paints a vivid picture: I am the lone Democrat among six siblings ranging in ages 60-75. One survey found that the state you're from (or the one you live in now) may play a part in determining how much of a coffee snob you actually are. Every protest you see by “workers” is industry specific and they are surrogates for the Democratic Party. I seriously can’t think of more polar-opposite people and public figures than Donald J. Trump and Barack Hussein Obama. Be sure to check out this video—a post-election Thanksgiving message that’s right in line with what readers have been debating in this Notes thread (except now with delightful lines like “we can keep shoving our heads up our high-horses asses all we want”). Another traveling home to Michigan expects to be alone in grieving Trump’s victory, and one going to rural Alabama looks ahead to “further exhaustion: over-worked and underpaid to go ‘home’ to a different kind of work—tactfully avoiding political discourse.” Another reader is feeling “anxiety because of the election,” but for more complicated reasons than Clinton vs. Trump: “I’m queer and my (Clinton-supporting) family isn’t totally down with that and I’m not ready for the discussions around the dinner table.”. She appears to believe there’s no longer an objective truth to report on, only post-fact narratives to be advanced. What if he achieved something with both Elizabeth Warren and Paul Ryan? She is my No. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and just finished 24 total hours of certification training to lead a neighborhood response team when The Big One hits. Here’s Aaron: First I’d like to thank Chris Bodenner and The Atlantic for allowing a genuine conversation between Trump and Clinton supporters to take place. Radhi, SUNY Stony Brook3. OK, I see that she thinks the ACA is responsible for rising health care costs. As far back as 1985, when he published his prophetic screed Amusing Ourselves to Death, the late media critic Neil Postman wrote: We were keeping our eye on 1984. Adding more justices to the bench might be the only way to stop them. I don’t think these things will happen. It would be universally decried, and that’s without calling implying anything half so personally negative as the Hamilton cast did to Pence. I looked in my refrigerator and then I stood in line at the food bank where they gave me rancid cake mix—did you know a cake mix can get rancid? It is so back assward. That’s enough. But what Republican policy does she think will help with that? Here’s one more reader note, from Vince—an Obama voter who didn’t vote for Trump but relates to a lot of sentiment that elected him: Alan [the reader who voted for Trump mostly out of a disdain for identity politics] voiced exactly what I feel about this election. Thank you for running this reader series engaging with Trump voters. There’s a big difference between theoretical rights and actual results. So what happens when you ascribe, to yourself, the role, the job, of “helping the loser,” when one fight only leads to another? It helped that there were 12 different dishes and lots of guests (24) so the majority of time guests alternately chewed and head-nodded (while chewing). If I felt like my lifestyle and preferences weren’t sneered at, maybe I would stay. Outside the media bubble but still within the social bubble of big coastal cities, we posted “‘Confessions of a Liberal Urban Elitist’” and “‘Elite Doesn’t Mean Born With a Silver Spoon.’” Both reader notes center on the theme of coastal professionals resenting being called “elitists” by rural Trump voters, especially when such professionals grew up in working-class communities themselves. Non-athletic boys were bullied. Update from Susan, who gets the final word here, if you’re still following along: This is fun! That commentary has become hyper-partisan on both sides, because in order to keep the eyes glued to the TV, you’re forced to forever ramp up the rhetoric, to call everything a crisis, to proclaim whatever it is you’re talking about to be the most important thing going on anywhere. Using your vote to express “I’d rather just piss into the wind than worry about what might happen to healthcare in America” is not something I can really find a defense for. Even though that is my heart’s desire, I am not sure we can do it on our own. As an Army brat, I grew up all over the U.S. and a little abroad, but mostly in Kansas, where my dad retired to the countryside about 10 miles outside a town of just 5,000 people. It’s wrong when prissy elite professionals do it, and it’s wrong when coarse blue-collar workers do it. If people think THOSE jobs are coming back, well, I hope they hold Trump’s feet to the fire. This is how it’s going to be. Have we not yet learned that SHOUTING at someone or groups of people is wrong and counterproductive? Trump and Pence won’t engage with people who disagree with them except on Twitter, so they are making us do desperate things in order to be heard. Here’s another reader, Lee-on, who sees things much differently than Stephen: Mike Pence made the conscious decision to run for VP with Trump in a campaign filled with divisive language and rude remarks.

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