I think you confuse negative but accurate descriptive words for fightin’ words. ANY negativity seems to be taken as mudslinging today and sends people immediately into responding with a personal attack, as if the individual has attacked his mother. Trump HAS disrespected many groups, making generalizations that can be described as racist contempt. Whether you share this perspective of contempt or not defines whether that description of the attitude makes you bristle. You can euphemise the words by calling them “making America great again,” but that’s just whitewashing to make the reality into something that sounds more acceptable in general. The nice way of saying it is a slogan that voters bought, but the application is dangerous to many citizens. Those who recognize the danger can’t call it anything else and those who agree probably believe the danger doesn’t apply to themselves, anyone they care about or anyone they consider to be “legitimate” Americans.

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You’ve way overestimated the impact of this opinion:)

We may disagree with his plans, but we have to see if they work. Hold Pres Elect Trump accountable and the Congress. If they fall shot of serving the USA in 2 years we can vote again. And in 4 years hopefully better candidates are presented for consideration. That is our system of renewal and hope. The USA has gone through tough times in the 60’s and early 70’s. Not all Presidents have been great. We learn and shape a new future every 4 years. Let’s see what is going to happen and then move in the new directions that we need to at that point.

Mr. Trump has done things differently and is on his feet. Let’s see if President Trump does things differently and the USA lands on its feet.
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I understand that you addressed this to Joseph, but would like to respond as well. I agree 100% with you that ultimately, this election was indeed about human rights. And that the candidates were not equal. And like you feel now, I was deeply, deeply afraid for our country. But what I saw was that the candidate who lost had a much, much worse record on the protection of our human rights than the one that won. I was chilled to the bone on the vision she painted of where she wanted to take America, particularly on the subject of the right to life, and the right to our religious freedoms, but there were other rights as well that she showed a careless disregard for. I know you are perplexed by that, and how others deeply committed to preserving our human rights as you are, could vote for your candidate’s opponent. Especially because he was carefully painted as a racist and sexist and about every other ist you can think of. And his own careless and profane rhetoric made things that must worse. He might be all the things you think he is, but I doubt it. And I think too many over-estimate what both good and evil any president can do on their own. The election is over. I hope that all of us can stop writing the villain, victim, and helpless stories we have been speaking and writing for well over a year now, and open our hearts and minds to each other. I really do want love rather than hate to conquer. I know you do too.

Your daughter’s students were lied to! If they lived in coal mining country, teachers were on the front line to teach modern subjects that would help students face their quickly changing world. They need to learn about current world economies, politics, the overuse of the world’s resources, the poisoning of our environments , the quickly changing technologies and abilities of computers. Most of the real training for these areas of study are in college. If a high school graduate doesn’t have a real grasp of the basics: how to read and write well in English; computer skills; science: earth science/biology, physics, environmental science; higher math, and current world events and a deep understanding of world history and politics, then that student is behind. He or she must catch up or specialize or face the future with few opportunities. There is no longer a promise of chickens in pots.

You have very clearly defined the most cogent issue: Human rights. I, too, am saddened over the outcome of the election, but this goes far beyond a discussion of taxes and insurance costs!!