I mean, if they get a chance? Because beyond Trump U., taxes, sexual discrimination, etc., surely there are better ways to communicate love of one's country than randomly calling for more nukes...
"Although my father claimed that Vietnam did not influence his vote, I still believe that everyone who voted for Trump likely has that something, that painful reason that compelled them to vote for him, that makes them need this country and its xenophobia in order to excuse a different pain. Protect America to make fallen soldiers matter. Protect America to make my mother’s job loss matter. Protect America to protect the excuse for killing more people — by continuing war, or by ignoring human rights issues.
But these responses to pain — these Trump votes — have inflicted a new pain. For many of us, we are mourning as we would a national tragedy.
At the end of our conversation, my father said, “The older I get, the more I realize I don’t know. More than ever before, I work now to really understand what is behind the actions of people. The one thing I will never be able to accept is negativity.”
Perhaps I, too, had not been thinking enough about what I don’t know. Believing that the majority of our country had been thinking the way most of Boston had been was naive. After my conversation with my father, I realized that my own bubble might have prevented me from understanding other parts of the country, just as their bubbles might have stopped them from understanding me."
~ http://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/11/15/13623694/trump-voters-understanding
Sounds civilized.
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