Trump or Hillary as President, who else is petrified?

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Consider this an open invitation. Im willing to engage with people. I am very disturbed by the results of this election and its implications, as I've made clear, but I am willing to engage with anyone who wants to talk with me. Im a third party member, I was clear that I dont think voting third party is a wasted vote, Im a proud green and feel very strongly about that party's platform, and I think I was relatively open about how I went back and forth between voting green and voting for Clinton. I don't think I spoke unfairly to anyone on here. If someone feels I did, then here's an invitation to engage with me in a deeper conversation.

That said, engaging in conversation is a two way street. The burden of reaching across the divide doesn't fall on either side exclusively. Were people actually shut down on this thread? Or were they just called out? I personally only sometimes have the patience to coddle grown adults. But most the time I expect people to be able to stand up for themselves and back up their own opinions and views.

Just so you know, I'm not going to come down on your head for voting third party. And though I voted for Clinton to oppose Trump (and really unhappy with a Trump victory), as I know many did, it annoys me that these votes against someone else are then treated as an endorsement for the "lesser evil" voted for.

Right now the general division and nastiness bothers me than any one candidate. Trump, and the election in which he won, is a symptom of a much greater problem in the USA.

Though I did vote against Trump by voting Hillary, it still hasn't escaped my attention how self-serving and manipulative a lot of rants against third party voters are, as perfectly illustrated in a comic on the previous page of this thread. More than that, I've heard those on the Democrat side have expressed a desire for mandatory voting in the USA as is done in Australia (at least it's better than the nasty tricks some Republicans use to keep people from voting), but NOT for preferential voting that is also used in Australia...because then we'd finally know how many are voting Democrat out of true solidarity, and how many are just voting Democrat because it's seen as the lesser evil (and if many are voting Democrat as the lesser evil then a third party might finally win a high office rather than a Democrat!).