6 May 2017 8:39 pm
I have been asking myself why the rabid 45 supporters on this forum are so **** angry.
Their party controls Congress and the White House, and probably the Supreme Court soon.
They should be tickled pink, but instead they run around here spitting fire.
This explains it pretty well.
Their party controls Congress and the White House, and probably the Supreme Court soon.
They should be tickled pink, but instead they run around here spitting fire.
This explains it pretty well.
I will NEVER stop opposing him.“Sore winner” syndrome: Why are Donald Trump’s supporters still so angry? Abraham Lincoln understood.
The political right often seems to take little joy in its victories, instead remaining focused on its defeated enemies.
Compromise is unacceptable: Right-wingers seem to demand total capitulation and when their adversaries continue to resist, they are enraged.
The best description of this phenomenon comes from Abraham Lincoln in his famous address at New York’s Cooper Union in 1860.
Trying to explain how impossible it was to deal with the Southern slave states using normal democratic means, he asked, “What will it take to satisfy them?”
This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right.
And this must be done thoroughly — done in acts as well as in words.
Silence will not be tolerated — we must place ourselves avowedly with them.
Senator Douglas’ new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private.
We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure.
We must pull down our Free State constitutions.
The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
This is why the right-wingers are so angry.
It’s not enough for them to win.
Those who opposed Trump must stop opposing him.
We must agree that Muslims should be banned from entering the country, agree we should torture and kill suspected terrorists and their families, agree immigrants should be rounded up and deported, agree there should be guns in schools, agree women should be punished for having abortions and agree to all the rest of it.
Until we stop resisting completely and declare that we are “avowedly with them,” they will continue to believe that “all their troubles proceed from us.”
That is not going to happen.
Trump’s forces may have won the election but they have not won the hearts and minds of the American people who didn’t vote for him.
And they won’t.