[JKCalhoun]

Are you suggesting we should be compassionate for the "selfish, exclusionary morons"?

Not quite following your gist.

I disagree with you to some degree. Maybe I'm a slow learner (I've had 6 decades to learn my lesson) but I still find that most people do in fact want to be and do good. I find this often when I travel on the road, make myself a stranger in strange parts.

To be sure, I have been called Pollyanna, but I do wonder sometimes if in fact it isn't cynicism that is the problem with the world.

[MrMcCall]

Being compassionate to selfish folks means demonstrating and teaching them the fundamental nature and utility of universal compassion. Each person has the free will to be as selfish or selfless as they wish. Maybe they've never been educated that it is selfishness that is dangerously heating our Earth, has caused all strife ever, fosters ignorance, and allows the poor and marginalized to be callously left to rot.

While we must work to establish a world society of compassionate service to one and all, we must also acknowledge the paradox of tolerance, and take that into consideration for how we manifest our compassion.

That a significant percent of America has just rejected truth and compassion in favor of lies, meanness, and bigotry is evidence enough of the stark truth, my friend.