As an atheist, I do not suffer from the debilitating requirement of Christian forgiveness for those who have sinned against us.
So, here we go by the numbers.
First, I do not forgive Trump voters who fall into three categories:
The racist, misogynist xenophobes who celebrated President Donald Trump’s dog whistles; The lock-step Republicans who vote party over country regardless of the ticket; Most egregiously, the so-called low-information voters. There is no excuse for failing to study the widely available knowledge regarding the candidates and their positions. That’s a requirement of responsible citizenship. Second, I do not forgive the liberal “voters of conscience” who cast meaningless votes for the Green Party. Did they learn nothing from the Ralph Nader vote that gave us the George W. Bush disaster?
This misbegotten philosophy, alone, was enough to swing the vote in the critical rust belt states.
Third, I will not forgive the Democratic National Committee for loading the dice for the flawed candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Though I disagreed with Bernie Sanders on NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership (both of which are viable policies), he was a much better representative of progressive change and very likely would have won the presidency over circus barker Trump.
Now we find ourselves in this anti-science, macro-economically ignorant, geopolitically-disastrous administration that seems to be unraveling on a daily basis.
The three political clusters I have identified, not the monumentally clueless Trump, are the responsible parties.
Michael S. Berry
Durango
