I don't know when exactly you realized the errors of your ways, but if it's before January 2016 then you're not nearly as bad as, say, Lief and Oakvale, who stuck to this routine until the Spring or so.
It must have been a long time ago then, because Bacon is anti-Trump, big league. These "ironic" trolling personas are by no means anything I'd ever do, and often I actually find it annoying because it quickly gets stale, but at the same time I remember that coming on the Internet for all-serious, all-day conversation is a pointless endeavor
I couldn't disagree more. "Setting aside our emotions" when thinking about the bleak future that awaits a 300-million-people country (and possibly the world) is the exact opposite of what we should do. Emotions are what makes us moral beings, what allows us (however crudely and imperfectly) to tell right from wrong. Staying all detached and value-neutral in the face of the prospect of mass poverty, death and destruction is not rationality - it's sociopathy. (And besides, this idea that emotion and reason are antithetical is one of the silliest mistakes in the history of philosophy, but I digress.)
Emotions can and often do make people stupid. It is a dominant system in our brains. You're right, emotions also make us human and gives us character, but one should be able
(and know when) to set them aside so they don't cloud our judgement. I'd argue that peoples runaway emotions greatly hurts one's ability to rationally think about important issues and politicians. The 2016 campaign seemed to be excellent example of this. I'd say the way the average person makes political choices seems overly devoid of logic and reason and over-packed with emotion and blind faith.
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