I suspect that the issue is that I am an intellectual and a tolerant person and I try to see both sides of any issue. I have my own opinion, but I take a step back and try to see the other person’s POV as well. This makes it easy for me to get along with people from all walks of life. However, if you are ruled by emotion, then it’s hard to do that. It also makes it harder to make good decisions and harder to be successful.

For example, what if you work for a company and your boss expresses a viewpoint you disagree with. Do you yell at your boss that he’s wrong (and get fired)? Do you silently stew and allow it to affect your performance? If it’s something that’s really bad, sometimes you do have to make a stand — like if your boss calls someone a n*gger then you need to call him out regardless of the consequences. But usually it’s not so black and white.

Of course, you could go all out fanatic and be like the Red Chinese Communists and their cultural revolution — when they killed people who didn’t 100% agree with them. I guess you’d be OK with killing Trump supporters? But if you were — how are you any better? Because they are still human beings.

I mean, that is how they’ve justified every single genocide, slavery and other atrocity — by pretending that people who were different were not human beings. When you start thinking it’s OK to kill people who look different from you or who think differently — then you start to become the monster yourself. JMHO