text: Looks like this discussion went way off the rails. The Author was stating her own, and her family's, reaction to the election. By almost any standards, it was a hateful election cycle and like many parents, she was looking for a way to help her children understand how such a person could have been elected (for all the reasons that at least one person here described). I  am often reminded of the song from South Pacific:  "You have to be taught to hate and fear; you have to be taught year after year; ..... you have to be carefully taught".   For our part, we recently attended a wonderful interfaith (Catholic, Muslim, Jewish) discussion in Lexington, KY where the motto with the halo was used in both English and Arabic. I didn't realize that the idea/art work originated in Lexington; nice to know! Not lecturing, but certainly hoping and praying that we can all unlearn the hate and fear that is so prevalent in our society.  We are all God's children; surely we can learn to act that way.