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In reply to the discussion: Fellow DU members please be careful judging Trump supporters [View all]FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)All due respect Backwoodsrider - I do agree that we need to go easy on those who were fooled by Trump (and voted for him.)
However the analogy we should use is the days of Nixon and the Vietnam War protest, leading to Watergate and the eventual resignation of Nixon.
During the Civil War we had a geographical dividing line, where the Confederacy left the Union for various reasons. If you lived in the southern states you automatically favored the secession. In the Nixon/Vietnam War years there was no such geographical boundaries. We had families diametrically opposing one another, communities, churches and religious groups taking sides, etc. all across the country. Young men went underground or left for Canada (or somewhere) to avoid the draft while fathers told their sons they were cowards for refusing to fight in Vietnam. It was a terrible time and it affected the baby boomer generation tremendously.
What's happening now with Trump and the GOP has been discussed ad nauseum here on DU and elsewhere, and I believe we'll survive this. But the adults in the room (hopefully that's us) must realize there's no one right answer. The problems in American's Heartland have been festering for way too long, the divide between the Haves and the HaveNots is way too deep.
These are our problems too. We can't look away while the HaveNots get exploited.
It's no longer THEIR problem, now it belongs to all of us.