Do you really feel this way

Maybe you need to get out of your high class neighborhood and help some of these people that you believe are so down and out.

I have not read the responses. A quick glance tells me this thread has gotten nasty.

I've written and erased this post twice because each time I get into why I voted my way. That's really the problem. My way.

The election is over. Rehashing why we like or more likely why we didn't like the opposition candidate isn't getting us anywhere. I've thought of little else in the last 24 hours and what I've concluded is that if we had done more listening and less talking, we might all have been happier with the outcome. What I'm hearing in your message, OP, is that you voted primarily for platform, not for the person. You think we are putting political correctness ahead of other values. You believe you are paying for programs that are wasted. That's what I'm hearing and those are valid opinions. These beliefs and trying to match the candidate to the beliefs does not make you a racist or a terrible person.

I now believe that if we had listened to each other in the primaries we would not have a President Elect disliked by more than half the country. Many people who voted for him including my DH don't like him and really don't think he is qualified. They voted for him because they would never vote for Hillary Clinton. DH told me this countless times. For some reason, I just discounted the fact that there were millions of people like him all over the country. He lived in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor and has never liked the Clintons. If I'd really paid attention to him and to social media, I might have realized that while Hillary Clinton was my candidate, she wasn't going to get the votes of millions of people no matter what. I almost voted for Bernie in the primary because I believe his a genuine and ethical person. I should have done that. Many others should have done that. If he had been the candidate, today might be very different.

And the Republicans and leading Democrats should have been listening to the people who picked Donald Trump out of a field of 17 people - almost all far more qualified than he. What made him appealing? And if he was going to the nominee no matter what, what would you have to do to persuade people there was a better choice. Hillary Clinton and her supporters were sure she would win based on her experience and the recommendations over everyone from Beyonce, to the Obamas, to Republican newspapers. They were wrong. DH had a doctor appointment today and the doctor was talking about Hillary and how she never gave him a reason to vote for her other than being a woman. For what it is worth, I don't think DH's doctor is a deplorable man at all either. She didn't listen and learn what she needed to do to convince people she could be a good leader and represent them.

Everyone dug into their beliefs and couldn't see anyone else's opinion. Most of us no matter our party have been disgusted with a Congress that can't get anything done because they don't listen and they don't compromise. We are no better.

I would think they would be able to qualify that then.  Again, I only know a small smattering of Trump supporters.  But the way it is said, and that fact that is often followed by "... but are afraid to say" leads me to believe it has nothing to do with jobs.

Technically I'm not a "Clinton supporter" because I'm not American and I don't vote, so I don't have to choose a side.

That being said, yes, if you can vote for someone who has publically time and time again displayed those traits and beliefs such as racism, sexism, misogyny, who is a bully, who demeans women when he doesn't agree with them and time and time again reduces their value to simply how they look...then you must share/approve of those opinions.
For heaven's sake this man said it's perfectly OK to grab "women by the pussy...and they let you do it if you are famous" if that doesn't repel you enough not to vote for this piece of crap then yes, you'll get tarred with the same brush as far as I'm concerned.
You chose to associate with/support a vile man like this, so you need to wear the negativity from others that comes with your choice.

I honestly cannot get my head around any woman voting for him.

And our feelings are just words (you know, just like 'fuck your feelings' was a huge thing for Trump rallies), words that we're using to express the dismay in what we expect to see DONE (actual, real harm) to people we love and care about.  When people here legally start to be deported because of xenophobia, when women die because they can't get medically necessary abortions, when gays lose the rights they've been fighting for for decades IF the Republicans do what they want to do to people, words aren't going to mean much.  We have a right and duty to show our outrage in disparate treatment of people in our communities and across the nation.

The hat fits great!

Personally, no I don't think that. However, I do think alot of his supporters are racist, sexist yes.

I personally feel like if someone could support Trump they just must not share much with me ethically, morally, socially, etc. I've never felt like that before about an election. I know of course there are some good people that must have voted for him (kind of like Trump saying some Mexicans, I suppose, are good people)

But yet you proudly voted for a man who has been caught on tape.. lying over and over and over again.

Maybe you aren't a racist, I don't know but by association you are a liar.

No, the majority did not vote for Trump. The majority voted for his opponent.  He just got more electoral votes.

ALL voters are Americans, not just the ones who voted your way.

Hubby gave me a good perspective. With all the shit talking about nothing getting done, Republicans can't cry foul if they fuck up having this majority for the next 2 years. They will have no one to blame but themselves.

I guess I don't think of them as Frankenstein candidates were we pick and choose what we support, I throw my support behind them I'm condoning all their views/actions. And I don't understand the last part, anyone you pick is tacit acceptance to me. I don't think Hillary is an acceptable liar and Trump is a non acceptable liar, I think they are both liars, so it sort of cancels out and I chose based on other issues were there were differences.

Thank you. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Those of you who looked the other way while this nasty man threatened, bullied, insulted and mocked damned near everyone but cisgendered white men and then voted him in are as guilty as he is of all of that. If being intolerant of this behavior makes me "a narrow minded individual" I will wear the title proudly and hope to be the reigning queen forever.

That is exactly why Hillary lost. The liberals thought their smug, holier than thou ass could talk down, tell people how and who they have to like and tolerate. You lost, you shut people down with your shaming. It didn't work. I treat people, any race, any gender exactly how they treat me.