I suppose there are multiple different reasons people are crying.
- For those that are ignorant and crying because their leftist friends have told them horrible things will happen, I actually do have some empathy, but the blame there isn't on the mean ol' Republicans, it's on leftists that have insisted on telling people that they'll be literally killed if Trump wins. I would very much appreciate it if Democrats would stop frightening poorly educated, emotionally unstable people.
- For people that fear deportation, I feel a jot of empathy, but mostly think, "tough shit". This is an outcome that these people should have known was on the table when they willfully broke American immigration laws. That they've been breaking these laws for a long time and getting away with it doesn't increase my empathy.
- Finally, the group that I'm actually laughing at are those with no real skin in the game who are mostly crying because of the sting of losing. These are the privileged academics in their sinecures who will go right on making six figures as diversity coordinators, the sort of people that describe themselves as "literally shaking with rage". Their ridiculous performance of showing how virtuously righteous they are is worth rolling eyes at and is pretty amusing when looked dispassionately.
This final group is, in fact, pretty loathsome in my views. The world is all about "who, whom?" for them and the thing they're most upset about is that they don't get to be the ones deciding the whom for a little bit.
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I'm not bothered by someone changing policy over time.
What's offensive about certain Hillary shifts is the raging hypocrisy associated with it. It's fine by me that she's shifted in favor of gay rights, what's absurd is that a position that she held only a few years ago is now regarded as an almost incomprehensible level of bigotry. Doesn't that seem a bit absurd? The zeitgeist shifts left and if you don't shift fast enough, you're an asshole? I'm less inclined to impugn people on such grounds.