{"id":3354,"date":"2020-11-07T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2020-11-07T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T21:52:47","slug":"to-my-trumpist-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3354","title":{"rendered":"To my Trumpist friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

The election was called a few minutes ago, finally. Trump lost.<\/p>\n

You are bitterly disappointed, and believe the election was \u201cstolen\u201d from you. That is not true. You believe that people unlike you voted for Biden. That is partly true. But every vote counts, that\u2019s the American way.<\/p>\n

You believe undeserving people will benefit from this election. Probably true. But undeserving people benefitted from Trump. That is definitely true.<\/p>\n

So now what? Where will your disappointed anger lead?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably futile, but I\u2019ll ask you to listen: You have legitimate grievances, you face difficult decisions, you suffer hardship. You have also been misled by people who profit by feeding you outrage.<\/p>\n

I am not your enemy. I am your neighbor. We have been friends. And I will work as hard to improve your situation as I did to defeat a man I believe was destroying the foundations of our country. Believe that or not, and I know you don\u2019t believe it now and possibly never will, because fear is much more persuasive than truth.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how we will come together in a future where social media, the Russians, the Chinese, and Fox talking heads have such an investment in keeping us divided. And you\u2019d have to be willing to meet me part way. But the invitation is there.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s time to get to work creating an affordable social safety net that still assures freedom of choice, creating opportunities for ALL Americans to build a future, including<\/em> you who feel like you\u2019ve just lost the America you love, recreating a country where freedom walks hand in hand with responsibility and success, and fighting together against those who use and then discard you.<\/p>\n

Please help, whenever you\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

The election was called a few minutes ago, finally. Trump lost.<\/p>\n

You are bitterly disappointed, and believe the election was \u201cstolen\u201d from you. That is not true. You believe that people unlike you voted for Biden. That is partly true. But every vote counts, that\u2019s the American way.<\/p>\n

You believe undeserving people will benefit from this election. Probably true. But undeserving people benefitted from Trump. That is definitely true.<\/p>\n

So now what? Where will your disappointed anger lead?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably futile, but I\u2019ll ask you to listen: You have legitimate grievances, \u2026 Read more\u2026 → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[702,703,445],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden","tag-election","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-S6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}