Best of luck to the president-elect Donald Trump

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What a night. I have to say that watching democracy at work is exhilarating. And nobody does it quite like the Americans.

I cannot imagine voting for Trump (same goes for Clinton actually) and I predicted a different outcome (I also got it wrong with Brexit) but now that "we the people" have spoken, I wish the best of luck to the president-elect Donald Trump in rising to the challenges of the world's no 1 job and hope that he will do great (and prove me wrong again).

Congrats to my friends who supported Trump, I can imagine how justifiably intoxicated you are with this victory. And I hope that the understandable but still very ott hysterics of many Hillary supporters will subside in a couple of days or weeks and they will not double down on calling everyone racists and -phobes (I think that was one of the things that brought you Trump) and the US, awesome as it is, will move on to what it does best, business as usual (and providing entertainment for the rest of us every now and then).

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[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

"...and they will not double down on calling everyone racists and -phobes (I think that was one of the things that brought you Trump)"

I think you're right. I just saw this on facebook:

"When all the non-racist, non-misogynist, non-homophobic, non-bigoted, everyday ordinary people get so sick of you calling them racists, misogynists, homophobes, and bigots that they go out and vote against your candidate, do you:

A. Reevaluate your personal conduct and strategy of convincing people to share your politics?

Or

B. Call them racists, misogynists, homophobes, and bigots and yell at them even more?

According to most of my timeline, you chose B. And that's exactly why your candidate lost."

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There has been quite a bit of this feeling that some people are just evil and do not deserve convincing or talking to only shamed and shut up. Such stuff never ends well especially when roughly half of the country qualifies for that treatment. There are many people on LJ who unfriend anyone who posts something against their views (always puzzled me, is it supposed to be punishment? I don't think anyone feels punished though) but in real life you cannot just exclude people from your world because of their views.