Warning: LONG!
In that Trump Last Stand thread I said the following:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223247855&postcount=72
Honestly the worst thing to do right now is assume hes going to lose. Be happy if/when he does but assuming that now, ahead of time is a bad idea. We don't know what is going to happen Tuesday, I think he'll lose but nothing scares me more then thinking that by saying that hes going to lose that people will decide he can't win and then not show up and vote. I know thats something obvious and most people haven't become complacent but crazier shit has happened, no one thought Brexit was going to pass either.
Literally the next post was largely bashing the whole brexit thing.
I am deeply depressed at the way this election has gone but Democrats (including many on here including myself) were way to convinced it would be landslide or that at least it wouldn't be close. We didn't take Trump seriously enough and now its currently looking like hes going to win if he hasn't already. People needed to take this more seriously instead of just talking up again and again how impossible it was.
Hate against the Clintons runs deep.
Racism runs deep.
Sexism runs deep.
Rage against politicians runs deep.
Hate is strong.
Blame Hillary, the DNC, Trump voters, the media, Burnie or Busters, Third parties, Russia, or whatever you want but in the end we've done this to ourselves by assuming that the rest of the country should just naturally think the same way we do. Instead of belittling those who disagreed with us or calling them names or attacking them we should have instead tried to understand how they feel and
WHY they feel it. It's easy to say THEY ARE ALL RACIST/SEXIST/WHATEVER but why are they like that? It's easy to point fingers its much more important at times like these we instead try to understand and relate to those we may absolutely hate in order to learn more about them and find some sort of common ground. When you close down the dialog with comments about how bad Trump supporters are or whatever you might want to say in the end we continue to live in our bubble and they in theirs its just that this time around their bubble was bigger then ours. If we are ever going to make progress again we need to break those bubbles and learn from each other.
I don't think this will actually happen, even if this is a humbling experience for Democrats it'll have the exact opposite effect for the winning side, I think we all know Trump supporters that will be putting us on blast over the next few weeks if not longer but in the end... We did this to ourselves. Every insult, every smug comment, every time we made them feel like they were nothing and their opinion was wrong they decided to say they had enough and they went to the candidate that made them feel like their opinion mattered, that they mattered. I think Trump manipulated them but I think we all know his supporters certainly don't feel that way. They were tired of not being herd and instead of listening we decided to make them feel worse and the one man who was willing to hear them out is the one they were willing to follow.
It's easy to turn the switch back at them and blame them for their ignorance or not educating themselves on the issues or the people but Trump has been right about one thing, he started a movement and while Democrats were busy laughing about how the Republican establishment was going to break up after the election and he lost in the end its likely the exact opposite will come true and his movement carried him to victory.
The next four and eight years will be extremely hard on many groups of people because of the events of his election but instead of being depressed or shocked I've found myself at a point where I see just how wrong we all truly were about so many things and its because of that, that now I feel very humbled and I think thats the best feeling I can take away from this night. My thoughts go out to my many minority friends who likely feel very defeated and afraid right now.
