Because that is how we got here. Laziness. It is much easier to label everyone you don’t agree with than actually listen. Why do you think our society has become so polarized?
Listen to who, exactly? The lazy or stupid people who didn't agree with Trump but voted for him anyway and did nothing to prevent the inmates from taking over the asylum? What could they possibly have to tell us that anyone would care to hear? Or the never Trumpers whose depredations during the Bush and Obama years helped create the ideal conditions for a demagogue and whose biggest beef with the guy is how he has ripped the curtain away to show what the Republican party is actually all about?
I’m hoping this will be a positive thing, like people will step back and say we just can’t do this anymore. We have to change how we treat each other. Everyone who doesn’t agree with me isn’t a moron.
When one political party and an overwhelming portion of its supporters have decided to take a permanent vacation from reality, what the hell are the rest of us supposed to do? When mainstream media figureheads spend more time fretting about kids on college campuses using funny pronouns and protesting speakers than incipient fascism, who are we supposed to listen to?