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Actually I'm not tiny. The problem is that words on the computer screen are 2 dimensional.

I read yours to be a blanket smear on everything in the universe, that was my point, it was 100% negative about everything.

But so was what I wrote, or at least what it communicated, and I take responsibility for that, not a productive post. If I thought what you wrote was bad, then so was mine, perhaps worse in that I tried to top your negativity - I apologize for the personal attack.

When I read it, I took yours to mean all the candidates are terrible, and so is all of the electorate - which includes me an other good and smart and caring people, and anyone who thinks there is any hope is stupid, and anyone who supports Trump has been fooled by him and worships him.

No so.

But more than likely you were just expressing frustration, and it came out that everyone but you on earth is an idiot. Whether that's what you meant or not, that's what I hit back at, and that notion deserves to be hit back at.

But if all I did was insult a person expressing frustration, then I'm sorry, it was a pretty graphical and cutting response by me. Not productive, aimed at words on a screen and probably not you, let me rephrase:

Not every candidate is bad although the general situation is not good, Not everyone in the electorate is an idiot. You should not be glad you are older, because the world is a beautiful place, if not the political landscape. I support Trump's candidacy, don't worship him, and I'm not an idiot - I think those who can only insult Trump's supporters should reflect on whether they are missing something, and are perhaps guilty themselves of the same simplistic thinking of which they accuse his supporters. One thing I notice about me and Trump supporters is that we make a case for him despite his shortcomings - those against Trump don't have much to say except that we are stupid and fooled. In these simple insults, those who make them can count themselves in the company of the media and democrats. Their insults implicitly insult themselves. Some make a coherent case, backed by past actions that Trump is a risk. I'm aware of his past not-so-conservative life.

I am a supporter, and I took it personally. Fair game to insult back? Yes. Was it perhaps overkill? Probably.

I'll reflect on my response though. I don't know who you are, probably you are just frustrated like I am, and perhaps I just lashed out at the first bit of negativity I came across after myself crossing a line of weariness and frustration. Like you, I am amazed at the dimwittedness of the electorate, and while most likely my response, at least the harshness, was inappropriate or overboard, perhaps you'll find that your words were not beautiful either, which is not to excuse mine if they were wrong.

I wish you a good weekend, and assume both of us are probably wrong about the other at least in part, and I'll take the hit for giving you some reason to be wrong. I can at times be tiny, sometimes due to being tired or angry, sometimes due to misinterpreting something I read - a danger with email and Mr. Internet in general, sometimes just because I can be tiny, hopefully those times are not often or defining.