The 2016 Election
<p><pre><code>  &gt; We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly
  &gt; half of the country that thinks we are severely misguided.
  &gt; I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump.
  &gt; But I’d like to find out, because we have to include 
  &gt; everyone in our path forward.  If our best ideas are to
  &gt; stop talking to or fire anyone who disagrees with us,
  &gt; we’ll be facing this whole situation again in 2020.
  &gt; 
  &gt; That kind of diversity is painful and unpopular, but
  &gt; it is critical to health of a democratic and pluralistic 
  &gt; society.  We shouldn’t start purging people for
  &gt; supporting the wrong political candidate. 
  &gt; That&#x27;s not how things are done in this country.
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This impresses me. That is exactly what I was trying to explain to somebody else in the other thread, and I was starting to feel like it was a position that nobody else held.