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CMV: I don't think it's fair to just go out and say a bunch of harsh things to Trump supporters right off the bat.

I'm not a Trump supporter. I never have been, and I sincerely don't think I ever will be. That being said, you go around on Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. and look at Democratic posts (not made by the politicians themselves) and see things like, "I mean the utmost disrespect when I say if you support Trump . . ." and so on.

I'm certainly not asking you to support those people. I'm not asking you to like them or anything else. They are human beings though, and Democrats asking to support everyone, be civil, etc. goes against the flat hate spread towards Trump supporters. They're people, they may or may not be misinformed, and they like someone you don't. You don't have to agree with their opinions, their morals and values, or their political stance.

But can you stop making assumptions and being harsh? I've also formed the theory and seen that some people are just too stubborn to switch to the Democratic side even though they hold more stereotypical Democratic views. I have a lot of family members like this, and I also have a lot of family members that are hardcore Republicans because they're homophobic, transphobic, or anything else that is associated with being a Trump supporter. This circles back around to being misinformed if you are a Trump supporter but have no connections with the aforementioned phobias.

Either way, regardless of your views, can we be civil please? I don't like Trump, end of story. But I get frustrated with every post I see, every person that posts shit like that because they hold their political views to be so high that they can't be civil with someone. Sometimes politics are life and death, I get that. But do you think being rude towards someone who disagrees with you is going to help change their attitude, their opinion, and their stance in politics? No. I think it would reinforce their beliefs and misinformation that Democrats are x, y, and z.

We can create change by being better. So why aren't we? Why aren't we working for unbiased news sources to correctly inform everyone? Why aren't we working towards the civility we all say we have when everyone clearly displays they don't have a shred of it in their bodies?

I'm open to discussion! PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST BEFORE COMMENTING OR DON'T BOTHER.
gpt
You need to specify what you mean here because you are saying 2 different things.  people "being harsh" or otherwise rude to Trump supporters definitely doesn't help, but you title that it isn't "fair" is totally incorrect.   Being harsh with them is more than fair.

Trump promotes racism, supports racists institutions, denies climate change, denied Covid and continues to make the situation worse, and actively works to destroy American democracy He literally said last night that we shouldn't count votes because if we do he will lose, (make no mistake this is literally an attempt at a coup, albeit a very pathetic attempt.)

He constantly spread lies and conspiracy, calls the media the enemy of the people and has pushed to create laws making it easier for him to sue them whenever they say things he doesn't like.  Constantly tries to push a narrative that the difference between what is true and what is false doesn't matter, is part of the republicans blatant hypocrisy to steal supreme court seats after openly admiting that they would refuse to even hold a vote (aka do their job) regarding any Obama picks for supreme court seats...I could go on.

Trump 's platform and **actions** is openly racist, sexist, anti-democratic, and fascist.  Anyone who supports him is at the very least okay with these things (although realistically most of them actively support these things and just pretend not to understand what they are supporting , they seriously play dumb 24/7 and push anti-.intellectualism none stop)

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Whether or not they are "just stubborn" isn't significant to the fact that they still support him. and people being "harsh" with them is the least of what they deserve.  That being said you are right that this isn't effective.  The world will have to hand-hold them through this in order to fix the problem, but that has nothing to do with what is fair, in a fair world people "being harsh" to them, would be the least of their problems.

***"*** ***if conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy*** ***"***

the only thing stopping these people from being outright fascists are the american institutions of government that stand in their way.  "Being stubborn" is not an excuse to be a fascist and support rascist governance.