What everyone who voted for Trump needs to hear. Amazing video

[BigBearJohn]

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/1315508435208874/

[marybourg]

1. I think it's already quite clear

that they mostly live in an alternate universe with alternate facts. They hear what we say with the same disbelief and ridicule that we express when we hear what is complete demagogic crap to us.

Most of us have relied on words our entire lives to convey truth. But we live in the post-truth world now. Lies and truth take up the same amount space in the new media world. They compete with equal force.

I don't see any end to it short of civil war. Or a war of annihilation caused by our new overlord. And I'm in my mid-seventies and have been a pragmatic optimist all my life. This time it really is different.

[KT2000]

2. It's like President Obama said -

a lie on social media looks the same as the truth. The thinking process is gullible.

[3catwoman3]

3. A well-stated and spot on rant.

I'm a nurse practitioner in a pediatric office with a fairly diverse patient population. The practice is located in an affluent and mainly Caucasian area in one of the far northwest Chicago suburbs, but we have patients from a wide variety of cultures, religions, income levels, languages spoken at home, and just about any other demographic characteristic you might care to name. Families that are independently wealthy with live in nannies, and families whose kids are covered by the S-CHIP plan that Hillary helped to create.

All the nursing and front desk staff are white. About half the nurses and front desk staff voted for DFT, and were publicly jubilant in the break room the day after the election. I have worked there 20 years. I have not ever seen any of these staff members treat any of our families disrespectfully, yet I now wonder how they might really feel about some of our patients.

I would like to ask them the following questions:

Do you have a problem with people who look different than you?
Do you have a problem with LBGTQ people?
Do you have a problem with marriage equality?
Do you have a problem with our families whose kids have 2 moms?
Do you have a problem with someone who has a different religious belief than you do?

My guess would be that the answers to each of the above would be a shocked, "Of course not."

I would love to be able to say, "Well, that's what you voted for." I won't/can't, because I avoid political discussions in the workplace.

[phylny]

4. I also work in a pediatric setting (therapy) and I'll bet our owners voted for Trump.

I think 75% of our clients are Medicaid. It'll be interesting to see what happens if they clamp down on Medicaid.

[3catwoman3]

5. Our practice has 9 docs, and me, the NP.

8 women, 2 men. 4 are Jewish, 2 various branches of Christianity, 1 Hindu, and 2 "mixed marriages" from a religious perspective. I am a Unitarian Universalist.

I know for sure 5 docs are lefties like me. One of the 2 founding partners is a Republican, but told me she voted for Hillary. This person is exceedingly lady-like, and was no doubt horrified by the general boorishness of Trump. The other 2 docs I seldom work with and I am not sure about.

I tend to keep my own views close to the vest until someone intentionally or accidentally lets me know their outlook on things.