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Kablooie

(18,571 posts)
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:05 AM Feb 2018

Explanation of the average Trump voter's descent into shocking moral depravity

Written by Picnicpanther on Reddit


They were supposed to be the next star quarterback or start a hardware store that turns into a national franchise due to their smart business skills, and life would be easy. But they blew out a knee, or they weren't cut out for college, or fairly, couldn't afford to move out of their folk's house. They grew up seeing people they know, the nerds from high school who lived at the bottom of the food chain, move away and do things with their lives, while they were still there, in their hometown, working at an oil refinery or the midnight shift at a gas station off of a barely-used highway, or a plumbing business that has a max customer capacity of 100.

Don't get me wrong, they're not too bad off. But you don't understand, they're not SUPPOSED to be here. It's not THEIR fault they didn't want to move from their 1000 person town to a city because that's where the jobs are. How can you blame THEM for being underemployed because they might have to start from the bottom or go back to school or—god forbid—join a union?

No, it's those dirty immigrants they've never met before, from countries they've never been to because they don't leave their home town. It's those liberals who live in the cities, like all those assholes who left town to get good jobs where they were. And since they were destined for greatness and denied it by so many exterior factors already, the news media has to be in on it too! At that point, of course they're hiring actors to play grieving kids, this can't possibly be reality—because if it is, all the people who have told them that guns are good, immigrants are bad, and that they've been robbed from the greatness they deserve are wrong. They have bought into their narrative because it feels good, it removes the responsibility of bad decisions or laziness.

And since our hypercapitalist society dictates increasing gains and steadily rising success, bad decisions have a tendency to compound, so the narrative has to change every year. It becomes more and more craven, the plot that these GLOBALIST JOB-KILLERS have enacted, because they have to try harder and harder to stop the RIGHTEOUS AMERICANS from winning. That's why they commit false flags, hire actors, empower domestic terrorist organizations like (((ANTIFA))) and stage riots. Because they just can't stand American greatness, or at least, that's what these RIGHTEOUS AMERICANS tell themselves—because if that wasn't true, the reality would break the way they see the world.

This is the cult of America, where you're either Someone™ or no one.
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Explanation of the average Trump voter's descent into shocking moral depravity (Original Post) Kablooie Feb 2018 OP
I've also read that ginnyinWI Feb 2018 #1
This is the real reason why they hate Soros. Dawson Leery Feb 2018 #3
The first paragraph, Dawson Leery Feb 2018 #2
This probably explains a lot, but it doesn't explain the many Trump signs in my area enough Feb 2018 #4
That's an easy one. ginnyinWI Feb 2018 #5

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
1. I've also read that
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:14 AM
Feb 2018

the particular kind of adolescent immature behavior and attitude that Trump exhibits echoes these guys' own arrested development. The anger and acting out they fall back on because they haven't made it into full adulthood as a result of real work and real struggle for success. They have chickened out on anything that looked too hard, expecting that somehow life would just "happen" for them easily. They are white males, after all!

Don the Con also has this immaturity because he, similarly, never had to really struggle. Never had to suck it up and buckle down and learn to do something straight and honest. He learned from the old man to become a cheat and con artist.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
3. This is the real reason why they hate Soros.
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:25 AM
Feb 2018

He survived being in the hands of the ultimate white supremacist and made it, BIG TIME.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
2. The first paragraph,
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:24 AM
Feb 2018

the "jocks", the football player, the wrestler, they love their macho attitude and never let the "others" forget it.
It is not my fault they did nothing with their lives.
Most of them end up in the trades. In southwest Connecticut, they easily make 100k a year.
They are not struggling, just greedy and lazy.

For this to happen:

"start a hardware store that turns into a national franchise due to their smart business skills,"

you need to be in the right market at the right time and put in 90 hours a week to make it happen.

Starting a business takes time and resources.

The typical Trumpbot has neither. Though they do love those cheap goods made overseas, even though they
hate the laborers who make them.

enough

(13,235 posts)
4. This probably explains a lot, but it doesn't explain the many Trump signs in my area
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 10:40 AM
Feb 2018

on the sweeping lawns in front of large well kept houses of people who clearly have made it and are successful in the world.

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