A vote to treat people badly is _absolutely_ a good reason to be angry at someone.

If you're voting to take away people's healthcare, or to discriminate against them based on who they love, or their gender, then of course they are angry!

Still no excuse for physical violence. Votes are how we make decisions in our society. You don't always win. You can argue your position all you want, but you don't get to intimidate others with violence.

Am I missing where somebody in this thread was advocating for violence?

Taking away people's healthcare is violence though.

Nobody can tell you what to feel, and it's unfair to expect you to not feel angry about stuff that is important to you.

But it's fair to expect that you won't get into a fistfight with someone just because they make you angry.

That's fair but as we keep seeing from radical Conservatives, you can and possibly will be attacked for holding certain views.

What if you vote for someone willing to pardon long-overstaying illegal aliens?

OP said the fight was about a different viewpoint, not voting for a different party. There's a whole world of viewpoints outside the two dominant political parties in the US.

Throwing fists is violence, not anger.

OP edited the original comment to mention an alleged fist fight after getting a slew of responses directed at the "anger" aspect.

"I think your kind is an abomination that should be hearded into camps and slaughtered", is a political opinion that might well lead to a fight or 'anything in between'. It has little to do with a vote. Some 'conservative' people now believe it's ok to voice those opponions at work. We don't know what was said based on the parent, and we don't know how it escalated... so maybe that's it?

Some people won't be cowed by a publicly aggressive racist... I'd tell my boss that I'm uncomfortable working with them. I'm not a snowflake, if someone else can't handle my speach and the resulting consequences of their own.