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Some of these posts are so hostile; it frightens me almost as much as Halloween Palin. Why is it we humans must see things in black and white? "They" are bad for not supporting Obama, so therefore they are terrible, ignorant people. "We" are good because we support Obama, so therefore we are brilliant, wise and worldly people. Get off it. We are all on this earth together and we don't all think alike and that's (believe it or not) a good thing. My guess is that if you met any of these people that Rebecca Traister writes about, in a different setting, like at the park or at a ball game and sat down and had a chat with them, you would like them, think they were nice people, maybe even find you have a lot in common with some of them. We need to stop this "Us vs. Them" mentality. And if you've really been listening to the brilliant Senator Obama, that's exactly what he's been talking about all this time. “There are no red states or blue states; there is only the United States”. So, get over yourselves and start reaching out. We all have the same serious problems and we need to put our heads together, whether we disagree or not, and start to try to fix them. Enough of these nasty, sniping comments at people you don’t even know. Now go out and vote. And spread a little love, while you're at it.
