Democrats and Moderate Republicans are responding to a disappointingly close election in at least three different ways.
A) The “Perplexed Yet Respectful Resistance” response.
B) The “Angry, I Don’t Know Anyone Outside of New York City, Mindless Stereotype” response. Note that you can negatively stereotype by race, class, and gender and still be given a Nobel Prize.
C) The “Hopeful Healing” response.
I propose “D“, which is “Hopeful Healing” preceded by a six month-long moratorium on political discussion of any kind. We need a collective time-out. Eventually though, we need to start asking questions, listening to, and learning from people who think and vote differently than us.
Or maybe six years?
Pressing Pause 
Long time lurker; first time commenter. Fear that oppositional politics are too profitable for the two parties and their election consultants for reasonable compromise or listening to be the path forward. Recently we’ve also become more aware of how both “traditional” and “social” media profit off our fears and anxieties (see, for example, “The Great Hack” and other related reporting). So there seems to be a lot of entrenched interests that would need to be overcome for such healing to occur, which is a shame.
Thanks MP. A smart albeit depressing assessment of things. We will ride again!
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