When Something In The Country Gets Worse Under Obama And You Prove It Do Liberals Act Like It

Conservatives treated Obama with respect. Why were some liberals screaming and crying when Trump won?

Not the most altruistic question on Quora, hmm.The opposition did not treat Obama with respect.If we disregard the super racist memes from racist private citizens in the opposition, and only look at the actual political opposition:The Republican Party obstructed from day one, that is not respect.Obama reached out with an olive branch for bipartisan solutions, but the GOP would have nothing of it. Some of the GOP inputs to the affordable healthcare act watered it down to what it became, and it would have been better without their inept inputs.Instead of behaving like proper caretakers of the country, they boycotted appointments of justices. Now it looks more and more like a long con to get single topic riders in the seats in the supreme court that will put the country backwards for decades, when it comes to human rights and equal opportunities and treatment.Fortunately for everyone, including the rest of the world, Obamas side got their “fix-the-economy” acts in place before the midterms, so those behaving responsible in the government manage to turn the economy, which benefited the next president, who had a sweet deal to take over - all Trump needed to do was to be fiscally responsible, the rest already was trending good.And concerning the current so-called president, he was behind the birther conspiracies that was absolutely about disrespecting the US institutions and Obama, so I am sorry, in what way could he have earned more respect than Obama?In my view and with all respect I can muster, I think Trump is a misogynistic, bigoted, narcissistic opportunist suffering from delusions of grandeur and pathological lying. That is just in laymen terms.There is simply not much to respect about a silver spoon fed cronyist, who found the opportunity to ride the red waves of religion and fear mongering into destroying his country for decades.I would not have expected that high a rate of people, who would excuse any one of those labels even less all of them, but obviously I believe too much in the good in people, because 26% of the US voted for him and according to polls most of those still labeling themselves Republicans supports him.We can only hope the rest of the world are more awoke to prevent the risks of such a incompetent and democracy threatening leader anywhere else.

Why are some liberals so condescending toward Trump supporters? Do they really feel they are superior?

They can’t believe anyone voted for someone who has spouted so much hate speech, who has so few coherent ideas, and whose tendencies seem too patently autocratic.It’s not about liberals feeling “superior”: it’s about us being morally aghast that you guys got behind a demi-man who called Mexicans “rapists” in his campaign announcement, has degraded women, attacked anyone who dares criticize him, waged a systematic war on the very free press whose constant attention to him probably factored in his victory, attacked a Gold Star family and compared his “sacrifices” as real-estate billionaire to those of the young and dead Muslim-American soldier Humayun Khan, who besmirched John McCain’s status as a war hero — when was Trump ever in Vietnam?, who wants to create a registry for Muslims (much as Hitler did for Jews — bad precedent), who has the zealous support of the KKK, who cozied up to Putin (whose government interfered in the election — in the country whose security the president is supposed to ensure), who has been nominating plutocrats and alt-right loons to very lofty and powerful positions, who promises to deport millions and break up families, to “build a Wall and make Mexico pay for it” (good luck), who will lead us into trade wars and likely encourage fiscal policy that will lead to another huge financial meltdown, calls climate change a hoax propagated by China (and therefore embraces destructive industries and deregulation, and has no agenda to help mitigate the first anthropogenic extinction in our planet’s history), etc., etc., etc.We are disappointed to think we live in a country in which our fellow citizens think that these things are presidential, that they befit the leader of the free world. We are horrified to think that America elected its own image, and that image is this. The man’s affronts to common decency and infantile vulnerability to any provocation should have disqualified him in the minds of all decent and sane people.So what the fuck happened? I am no great fan of Hillary’s. I don’t think Washington is functioning properly. But electing this wholly selfish, power-hungry golem to our highest office was not a wise alternative.It’s not so much about superiority. The feeling is “This is America in the twenty-first century! How could you?”