Its ignorant for you to assume that people on the right are ignorant and honestly the attitude of people like you were one of the driving forces of me supporting and voting for trump.
Here I am, working as a software engineer, with a BS in computer science, fluent in multiple languages, able to criticaly evaluate evidence in order to make decisions, and just as educated as you are, and you automatically assume that just because I'm on the right I am ignorant.
Its people like you that have poisoned the well of society.
"Its people like you that have poisoned the well of society."
There's a lot of heated discussion. Regardless of who won, this was always going to be a large population of people who were going to be disappointed if not strongly upset by the result. The polarized atmosphere makes discussion very difficult. Language like this makes it even harder for people to hear what you're trying to say. You're actively engaged in the discussion, which is great! We all need to work to improve the situation and make it constructive.
I'm sorry you took it that way. That wasn't my intent. I honestly want people to be able to talk with one another in a way that actually makes a difference. Insulting people and using inflammatory language just causes people to stop listening and dig in. It doesn't change people's minds.
Ignoring the tone, do you think the content of what I wrote is constructive or useful? If so, how would you choose to convey the same message?
No, you don't understand. I'm coming from the opposite perspective: all of the tone policing and condescending attitudes and elitism of the left is stifling discussion and democracy. It is a soft form of totalitarianism. When you say that "Language like this makes it even harder for people to hear what you're trying to say" what I hear you saying is that my opinions are not valid because I'm not saying them properly. That is no different, from my perspective, than someone not listening to hispanic people's political opinion because they speak spanish instead of english.
tone policing, like you are doing, just causes people to stop listening and dig in. It doesn't change people's minds.
> Ignoring the tone, do you think the content of what I wrote is constructive or useful? If so, how would you choose to convey the same message?
by saying my views as bluntly as possible and actively rejecting your tone-policing and condescending attitudes.
The country is pretty evenly split. The reasons people chose to vote (or not vote) for a particular candidate cannot meaningfully be boiled down to the manner of discourse.
If this thread is any indication, neither of us is solely correct.
Here I am, working as a software engineer, with a BS in computer science, fluent in multiple languages, able to criticaly evaluate evidence in order to make decisions, and just as educated as you are, and you automatically assume that just because I'm on the right I am ignorant.
Its people like you that have poisoned the well of society.