What do you think about global warming and the environment? My dad thinks nothing can go catastrophically wrong because everything will fulfill a set prophecy. I think the people who generate the CO2 have some responsibility to mitigate the economic losses of affected parties and maybe we should put more effort here.

Due to the polarization of viewpoints I tend to think this is becoming more and more unlikely.

Personally, I'm befuddled that anyone could support Trump. I understand the ideals of small government, held by most conservatives, tends to coincide with freethinkers aversion to authoritarianism but that is about the only common ground I have with them. I disagree with their economic policies and definitely disagree with their social policies. Their general unwillingness to progress and the current trend toward Randian philosophy is downright scary to me.

No, people aren't rational when it comes to entities they cherish who tend to make up stories.

Sure we can, as long as you don't dip into the "fake" news crazee complaints and we can just talk about his horrific(IMHO) policies and everything else I detest about him. Ready, go.

Can we stop demonizing emotions? Personally I find ad hominem attacks much more problematic than emotion.

Sure, you start.
What we talking about?

Freedom Of Speech Is Important. While I Don't Agree With Trumps Presidency, It's My Opinion.Your Viewpoint Is Just As Important, Welcome.

I wish it was true. Most talks about politics break down to people waiting for trigger word to be said so they can spit out there partisan talking points. I think both political parties want it that way. I don't see it much better in atheist communities myself

Blame it on Canada.

Mental cattle are not equipped to recognize, let alone express ideas of personal origin. They are either indoctrinated or have voluntarily abdicated their faculties of discernment of group leadership; be that theological, political or both.

Partisans love you when your thoughts about something agree with their spoon-fed notions adopted from their 'betters'. Conversely they'll hate and demonize you when your thought-out opinions disagree with and threaten to add flavor to their pap.

I voted for Trump. Am I a Trump supporter on every policy? Of course not!

That would make me functionally indistiguishable from a Clinton sycophant. I vehemently disagree with notions that using religion as an excuse to inconvenience or otherwise discriminate in accommodations to the public, exemplify 'religious freedom'.

Agree wholeheartedly with his border and Second Amendment policies. I like his policies toward North Korea and China and they are proving to be fruitful. Disagree totally with his policies toward Russia and in the MIddle East; seeing them as very misguided and leading us toward war.

Lots of other examples but these should suffice to illustrate that any of my positions would be welcomed by one herd and earn labeling and demonization by the other.

It's the price one pays for emancipation from the herds. In this country where expressing disagreement gets only name calling at best and loss of a career at worst, we are still better off than in other places where the same behavior merits prison or head pruning.

Civil discourse seems to be a lost art these days. I tend to be apolitical, but mostly because I’m just not interested. Though, I do find your support of Trump interesting because you don’t fit the mold of the popular idea of a typical supporter (white, male). I supppose that illustrates a bias and prejudice I have that I always like to pretend isn’t there.

But, back to the subject at hand, I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Trump, but it’s always important to me to be civil with folks. I also like hearing the other side. You never know when someone will enlighten your mind.

Not when it comes at the price of 30,000 American lives a year. You can call me imature or whatever you want, l could give a fuck less.