My dad. Immigrant, Minority, Veteran, Trump Voter

[EffieBlack]

5. With all due respect, I have no interest in "connecting" with people like your father

What in the hell message could Hillary - or anyone on the Democratic side - have sent to your father that would have made him feel "connected" to us? That we were as mean and nasty and hateful as Trump and we were going to go around kicking everybody's ass? That we were going to go after THEM - "them" being everybody but him and the racist white folks your dad cast his lot with (even though many of them probably think he's a piece of sh*t)?

Your dad sounds like a decent, intelligent man, so if he had been paying attention, he should have known that Hillary DID speak to those issues, but she did it in an intelligent, nuanced and honest way - she spoke to people like your dad as if they were intelligent, sensible people. She told them the truth. She didn't yell and throw red meat and scapegoat and promise to bring back jobs that are never coming back. But for some reason, your dad still decided to vote for the loud-mouthed racist with no plan but who put on a hell of a show, if you like the reality tv meets Nuremberg rally kind of thing - and helped put an ignorant, misogynistic, xenophobic bigot into the most powerful position on earth.

Our party doesn't have any more time to try to "connect" with your dad and people like him. We need to spend our time and resources on helping to empower people who are actually are paying attention and will vote with us in huge numbers without having to feel a personal "connection" if we just reach out to them and help remove the barriers that the people your dad voted for is hellbent on putting in their way. Once we do that, maybe he'll see the light and come over willingly. But I don't want our party to waste another second or dime on people like your dad.

Sorry if that's harsh, but I'm speaking from the heart. And I don't have any more patience for people who vote against MY interests and the interests of people we should be fighting to protect and then expect us to kiss their asses while begging them to please just tell us what other body parts we can kiss to make them love us.