@gtwilson The thing is that symbols have meaning. Otherwise, they wouldn't exist.
From my perspective, it seems to me that I've spent at least the last 30 years watching a small group of people plot to destroy our educational system, establish a partisan press, and overturn every social advance and every bit of the social safety net that we've established in the last 100 years. Now that we have a substantially misinformed and ill-educated electorate, they're getting their wishes fulfilled.
I'm a white guy, with a Nordic name, and I'm going to be spared the worst of what's coming, but I'm not wealthy except in the global sense, and if these people get their way I'm likely to have an impoverished old age, while the kleptocrats we just elected rob the nation blind, and that both worries me and pisses me off. It also pisses me off that my friends who have brown skin or non-Christian beliefs are going to be in the crosshairs.
Meanwhile, we're being told that we have to understand the people who are making this all possible. While that may be true to a certain extent, I'll be damned if I'll bend over backwards to excuse their ignorance and shortsightedness. Since the electoral college makes their vote count for more than mine, I'd argue they have just as big a responsibility to understand all of us annoying secular coastal people with college degrees.
Finally, both parties got us here, by pandering to the wealthy (yes, even the Democrats), ignoring what's left of the middle and working classes, and ignoring the warning signs of what was coming. A pox on all their houses.
// @kdfrawg @indigo