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US Election 2016: A survivor's guide to unexpected voting results - BBC News
US Election 2016: A survivor's guide to unexpected voting results - BBC News
The election of Donald Trump has left some Americans thunderstruck in the same way as the UK's vote for Brexit stunned those British voters who could not imagine a future outside the European Union. But disappointed Remainers have found ways of coping. What survival tips can they offer to their counterparts across the Atlantic?
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...I'm not loving the emphasis on "maybe you were wrong about what's best for your country!" in that last section. Usually I'm all in favour of breaking outside of your echo chamber and testing your views against opposing ones, but we're talking about a guy who shows open contempt for minorities and welfare programmes, who is blatantly misogynistic, who people who lived through the Nazis' rule are comfortable comparing with Hitler...not to mention that he constantly contradicts himself, seems to have little grasp on policy, and is often completely incoherent in his speeches. I can accept that things might not be as bad as they seem now (largely because he's hated by much of his own party, and Congress will likely block him on some of his more extreme ideas), but not that this will actually turn out to have been the best option all along.
Similarly, with Brexit: the pound is falling, food prices are rising, our main opposition party was in complete disarray for months, we have an unelected Prime Minister in power, our allies in the EU are getting increasingly sick of our shit, the "benefits" of Brexit highlighted by the Leave campaign turned out to be lies, and no one in power seems to have a clue what to do to get us out of this mess. Maybe things will turn out fine in the end, but I'm not sure in what world this is the better option for the UK.
By all means encourage people to understand the reasons why others voted the way they did, and to try and empathise with their perspective, but... don't assume that they must be wrong just because the votes didn't go in their favour. It just feels really dismissive of people who had and still have genuine reasons to worry about the direction political events are heading in.
(I'm also not so thrilled about a psychologist referring to someone as a 'fruitcake', but that's another issue entirely).
Sorry I can't write a long reply right now, but in brief: we can't yet know what the long-term effects of Trump-as-president will be, and as such I read the article not as "maybe you were wrong!" but rather "don't despair just yet; maybe it might not turn out to be so awful in the long run!" and I am sorry that you read it otherwise.
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