Like . The Beach Volleyball DoA ? <| sep |> As many times as people keep attacking the person to distract from their message . Which is what those guys have been doing . <| sep |> You just don ' t seem to get it . The whole thing that you need to understand is that if your ideas are so good , you shouldn ' t have to use force to apply them . You argue , you convince , you persuade you ' re opponents . You don ' t get to shut down every opposition and dismiss the whole country . I consider myself a moderate libertarien socially liberal , fiscally conservative and I supported Trump and I know a thing or two about debating people who hold views that I consider invalid . I ' ve met a fair share of actual racists , conspiracy theorists , communists and even some weird fellow in college who was a maoist . Like you said , politics is not black and white but a spectrum . Anyway , when you disagree with someone , shutting them down as racist , misogynist , sexist , etc . in a confrontational manner is never a good attitude and will always produce the exact opposite of what you wish . You say that you can ' t tolerate these point of views , well , that ' s what the democrat party in the US did this year and aggressively . And they failed miserably . That should be a lesson . These point of views that you hate so much , like it or not , are still there . And the point of views that I dislike are also still there . It can take a long time to convince someone , but that is really the only way to do it . Always being agressive and dismissive about other political group never changed a vote , ever . Whatever your political stance , this election should serve as a lesson for the left because they simply ruined it for themselves with their attitude . In my opinion , open debate really is the only way to swing voters . Another thing that will be useful in your future endeavours that ' s a bit of advice that is also valid for most leftwingers is to control your emotions . Nobody likes to debate or discuss with an emotional person . No idea is too bad to debate . Example we ' re in June and some people accuse Trump having wanted to destroy the Sun for some reason in the 1970 ' s . It obviously doesn ' t make sense to destroy the Sun . Well , you and me met somewhere during that time frame and we start discussing about it . I , as a Trump supporter , already heard about the claim that Trump might have wanted to destroy the Sun in a bid to become a real life Mr . Burns kind of vilain . One of the two way to handle this situation is to accept that this might be true or false . If you tell me it is true with facts and solid research , boom , my opinion is changed and I ' m suddenly not a Trump supported anymore . My vote could go third party like Johnson since I ' m closer with him politically but since it ' s the earth that is a stake , I might even vote Clinton . However , if you started by accusing me of supporting the exterminator of mankind and that the idea of nuking the sun is so stupid and not even worth debating since it ' s so wrong and threw a tantrum before leaving , guess what would have happened ? I would have stayed a Trump supporter , for better or for worst . Debating any political idea is always the best method to get people to agree on something even if the idea is as stupid as nuking the sun . And this is what the democrats failed to do this year . Their official program wasn ' t awfully bad and even I agreed with a few parts of it , they should just have done the promotion of it and Hillary ' s ideas to swing some voters . With Republicans , engaging politely about issues you disagree with . Instead , most democrats just repeated RACIST , SEXIST , HOMOPHOBE , etc . All of these personal attacks that we ' ve heard against Trump all year long were pointless since they never addressed any of the issues . That ' s why they failed to flip republicans and even independents . Some actually smart liberals might have flipped some voters here and there using the correct method of discussion but Hillary ' s campaign and the DNC never did it the right way and the bulk of Hillary ' s supporters also failed in that regard . They never attacked Trump ' s ideas , they attacked and still do Trump supporters , and it ' s incredible that they think it ' ll work , because it won ' t . The way the left has pushed this election , they could have lost against the actual Hitler . You saidNot all opinions are valid . Not all opinions are equal . Not all opinions should be tolerated . And that ' s where you , Hillary , the DNC and the majority of the left are wrong . All opinions need to be debated . Some republicans are absolutely guilty of this too . We need to debate these opinions , not shutting them down and then do some name calling and finger pointing . That has never persuaded anyone , ever .