No surprise...protests turn to riot....

Lol. Of course there are always thugs in any group, those who want to just riot for "fun". I have been told that "thug" is a racist term, but for me it isn't because I'm using it to apply to anyone who acts like these people are. There are black thugs, and white thugs, and Asian thugs (watch some videos of Asian senates -- or whatever they call them there -- if you want to see professional Asian thugs), and teenage thugs, and etc. 

I do plan to be protesting, peacefully of course since I am not a thug. I will be among the progressive Christians who are standing to be a witness to others that evangelical Christians do not speak for all of Christianity. I will be among the general protesters who are standing to be a witness of support to homosexuals, or Muslims, or women from any group. This is why people protest.

And I will not "come together as one" with people who espouse hate. 

Oh, and before this election I would have said this country was already great. But to see that almost half of the voters chose Trump despite his many many sins (using that word intentionally) is what grieves us the most. Not the fact that a Republican was elected. If an ordinary Republican had been elected I would be very disappointed, of course, and then I would move on like I did when both Bush presidents were elected. -- The grief this time is not caused by a Republican win but by a Trump win. And by seeing the dark underside of our society exposed. This is what people will be protesting, for the next four years. We will be standing up for inclusiveness and social justice wherever we see it being threatened. 

A friend of mine posted on Facebook right after the election, in response to someone's despair -- "There is about to be unleashed a huge wave of volunteerism and activism onto our society, the likes of which the Democratic party hasn't seen in a long time." This is what I believe. 

I think that protesting is a response that people have when they are having strong feelings and feel like they aren't being heard. I said it on another thread, but people are hurt, scared and angry (I will just point you to the post by monk lady for a good explanation). Some people respond by having feelings of sadness and isolation, others anxiety, and others are more angry and want to be heard. Protesting is personally not my style but I can understand why people are doing it. Unfortunately, I think protests often turn violent because if you feed the anger, it tends to grow rather than die out. When a bunch of people are together, feeling and talking about the same things, it feeds that anger.

What I would like to see if more compassion from those who "don't get it." There have been endless negative comments about people needing time and help to heal, saying they are just "having a tantrum" or worse things.

People say they want more access to mental health care (although historically that has not been shown with republican leaders and policies, so maybe I shouldn't be all that surprised that republican voters don't feel the same?). But when it comes down to it, it appears to be lip service. Or maybe it is just something they say when they want to take the focus off of gun rights after a tragedy occurs.

Based on what I heard from Trump supporters before the election, I have no doubt we'd be experiencing something much uglier if he had lost.

I don't support riots or violence of any kind, but I do plan to attend a Love Trumps Hate rally downtown with my teenage daughters tomorrow. I just consider it a show of solidarity with the women and minority voters who are feeling marginalized by this election. We won't be doing so much as littering, much less rioting.

I am so so so disappointed by what happened in Portland last night. I take solace in the fact that both the police and local media made it clear that the violence and damage were caused by a small group of bad actors - self-described anarchists. They were clear the protesters were peaceful. The police handled the situation as well as possible from what I saw on live streams last night and I commend them. I also commend the protestors, who intervened over and over to try to stop the violence.

That kind of garbage is never ok. Never.

It was "great" for middle class whites. When union, good paying jobs meant a white, high-school educated male could earn enough for a whole family. Those days are gone and they're gone largely because of the corporate-profit-first mentality that drove jobs overseas, automated them, downsized, outsourced etc. so that today mostly college educated whites can have the American Dream and non-college educated whites are struggling.

They think Trump will bring back that "greatness". But he won't. Cuz those jobs are gone and the very people who disappreared them (Heritage Foundation, Club for Growth, etc) are going into his transition team to continue the job of profits first, jobs last.

Never forget wages and benefits are the enemies of profits. That's why jobs went overseas - low wages, no environmental regulations.

So "great again" is all about non-college whites. And they've been played. How much remains to be seen. And it NEVER referred to non-whites for whom the greatness of our country is still ahead (far ahead) of us, not behind us.

So you blame the media for the actual words that came out of his mouth? Seriously?

He is responsible for what came out of his mouth. Period.

You know, I've been thinking a lot about your original post and why it irritates me so much. If you had a daughter whose husband called her vile names, sexually assaulted her (grabbed her by the p*ssy), threatened to punch her if she disagreed with him, and even threatened to kill her if things didn't go his way, would you tell her she needed to "just come together as one, accept what it is," and work together to make their marriage great again? No? Well, then stop telling me I need to get over it work to unite this country. I will not unite with hate.

Are you kidding?  

And you're condemning Trump for not acting quickly enough to bring people together.  This nation has been divided for so long...getting worse by the day and Obama did nothing but fuel those flames of division.  

You're expecting more of Trump 3 days after he was elected than you are of President Obama at the end of his second term.  

I believe that Trump is responsible for every word that has ever escaped his lips. With that said, no candidate has ever had the level of coverage that he had. I believe that the media hounded him in hopes of antagonizing him to bring him down. He was a threat to Queen Hillary.

Even with daily/weekly Wikileaks and FBI investigations, the liberal media spent WAYYYYY more time on every word that Trump has as much as muttered in the last 25 yrs than they did on Hillary's current events.

Their help wasn't enough though.

Data won't change minds. Some are impervious to facts. Only caring about their "BELIEFS!"