It's not just the media giving Trump unnecessary attention...

[berni_mccoy]

I did a little experiment using Facebook. I did a search on Trump and filtered the results to just my friends. I have pretty even mix of conservative and liberal friend simply because I ignore most political posts on Facebook and because I don't use politics as a way to filter friends on Facebook.

I've noticed over the past few months that there are very little pro trump posts. The only ones I've seen are by some of the most extreme political posters on Facebook. And these people considered themselves tea party people.

What's concerning is that my very liberal friends are posting far more about trump than anyone else. They are doing pretty mug the same thing the media is: gawking at everything outrageous trump days and does. This is exactly what his campaign wants. And this is exactly why I'm more than a little worried about the election this year.

[still_one]

1. Interesting point, except there is a difference. The media is trying to normalize outrageous

behavior, while your liberal friends are not

and by normalizing it I mean presenting it in a way that makes it seem "ok". For example, when Hillary was making her comments on the bombing incident in New York, Andrea Mitchel was declaring Trump ‘tough’ on terror, but Clinton ‘off message’

[berni_mccoy]

7. That's a good counter point.

I would still prefer to see more positive posts about Hillary.

[treestar]

2. Liberals looking at it for outrageousness aren't going to vote for him

So I'd feel a bit less concerned, in that a lot of the attention Don the Con gets could be hurting him too.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Y'know what I like about Hillary

she's smart, capable, experience, honest, and respectful.
I think she does things for all the right reasons (even in the most daunting situation).
She's proven herself over and over again. And she has taken so much
republican crap it's ridiculous. No matter what she keeps on fighting.
I want this woman on my side.

(they can turn the conversation to Hillary... and so can we)

[berni_mccoy]

5. Some of my FB friends are DUers. Maybe we should all agree to post positive

Threads about Hillary the next time we are inclined to post on politics (again I rarely do post about politics but I think the time has come to make a few key ones...)

[C_U_L8R]

8. I know too well, Trump is so much fun to poke fun of

He's such a vile, hateful, nasty person. He deserves to be condemned.
I'm very quick to pile on with everyone else.

But yeah...maybe if we all said ONE nice thing about Hillary
for every time we mention Trump, maybe we'd see things change.
Kinda like a Trump Swearing Jar.

[PJMcK]

4. Will your liberal friends vote for Donald Trump?

Recently, a DU poster observed that far too many posts here are about Mr. Trump and not enough about the nuts and bolts of Hillary Clinton's policies.

Let's face it. It's much more fun and entertaining to write about Mr. Trump's latest idiocy! It's reality TV times 100. That's what we should be concerned about. I mean, where is the principled discussion of opposing views and ideas?

Donald Trump's campaign is based on nothing more than his insults and his demand that we trust him... but without any evidence that he is who he says he is or has accomplished what he claims he has.

Secretary Clinton, on the other hand, has broad and varied experiences in forming and implementing policies and actions at several levels of government. But that's boring and wonkish.

It's far more exciting to watch the ridiculous circus act in the GOP.

[berni_mccoy]

6. I doubt it. Many of my liberal friends are DUers