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Yavin4

(35,421 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 05:24 PM Mar 2018

Yes, we should show Trump voters respect. We do it by standing in our truth and expressing our...

values, not pandering to them like Trump and Fox News does. Look them in the eye and say why we support diversity and the benefits that it brings. Look them in the eye and tell them why coal jobs are not coming back any time soon. Look them in the eye and tell them people who look different from them, love different from them, and worship different from them are not their enemies, they are your neighbors.

If they want to forever live in some kind make believe world from way back when, then so be it. We're the party of the present and the future and we have nothing to apologize for. If we have to move ahead without them, then so be it because the world is moving on without them whether Trump is the president or not.

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Yes, we should show Trump voters respect. We do it by standing in our truth and expressing our... (Original Post) Yavin4 Mar 2018 OP
This, exactly. Tell them the truth. I would add that we should tell them how they are being Squinch Mar 2018 #1

Squinch

(50,913 posts)
1. This, exactly. Tell them the truth. I would add that we should tell them how they are being
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 05:29 PM
Mar 2018

used by the republican leadership to make the republican leadership and the 1% rich, and it is their pockets that are being picked to make those people rich, that their social security and medicare are the piggy bank for making those people rich.

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