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You still don't get it. You're still approaching this as if I'm sympathizing with trump. You're acting as if I'm defending him. And as long as you continue to approach this conversion with that mindset, after I've explained three times it's not about blame or sympathy, it's about understanding the world around you by understanding the people at play and why they do what they do.
If you aren't willing to seperate yourself from your own perspective, then you're never going to get what I'm saying. It's not just trump. Take whomever you think is the worst person in history. Now defend their actions. If you're unable to defend the people whom you consider to be the most vile on the planet, then you do not understand their perspective. You don't have to agree with it, but if you can't logically defend them, then you're either inserting your own perspective into their perspective, or you're trying to approach things from an emotional level. I could defend hitler. I could defend ghengis khan. I could defend bill cosby. Doesn't mean I agree with any of them, but if you try to see their perspective, you can UNDERSTAND them.
It's never about sympathy. It's always about perspective and understanding. Then extracting information out of that perspective to gain new insight to the world around you.
But if you're not willing to do that, then we're having two seperate conversations, and I see no point in me continueing. Because I've explained the concept several times, and at this point it's less of a conversation, and more of an arguement, in which both sides are approaching the arguement from completely unrelated perspectives and will never have a resolution.