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jaxind

(1,074 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:16 AM Mar 2018

An Honest Question

Please give me honest answers to this question: For those that still support tRUMP, what are they getting out of it? All I can come up with is that you have to either be 1)a racist, 2) a bigot, 3) a gun lover who's afraid your guns will be taken away or 4) you are so greedy and wealthy, you like him for the tax breaks you're getting or 5) you are so patriotic and you are buying into Trump's fake tenets of patriotism or 6) you think you would have a better job or more money if it weren't for the damn non-white immigrants!

Please tell me what other reasons there could be to still support this POS! I mean if that's it, then our whole country in the hands of these deplorables!

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An Honest Question (Original Post) jaxind Mar 2018 OP
Abortion exboyfil Mar 2018 #1
Tax cuts for the rich! imanamerican63 Mar 2018 #2
Abortion as exboy said edhopper Mar 2018 #3
Sheep who follow thier RW pastors . Think trump is a gift from God lunasun Mar 2018 #4
Trump is the logical manifestation concreteblue Mar 2018 #5
Fetus worshippers Freddie Mar 2018 #6
It's anti-intelectualism, racism, or just greed HopeAgain Mar 2018 #7
Why ask this question here MichMary Mar 2018 #8
That's not how you ask an honest question. mythology Mar 2018 #9
I think a lot of them do so just because it pisses us off. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #10

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
1. Abortion
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:21 AM
Mar 2018

One more justice out of Kennedy and the four liberal members, and Roe will be reversed. Two and fetuses will have full human rights.

edhopper

(33,441 posts)
3. Abortion as exboy said
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:24 AM
Mar 2018

they also really dislike immigrants ( especially the nonwhite ones) and they want to see Gay Rights rolled back.

Some also think that environmental regulations take away jobs and other right wing nonsense.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. Sheep who follow thier RW pastors . Think trump is a gift from God
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:25 AM
Mar 2018

Why you would worship a deity who you think sends trump as a present to your world is beyond me

concreteblue

(626 posts)
5. Trump is the logical manifestation
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:34 AM
Mar 2018

of 40 years of CONservative brainwashing. AM Radio, Fox "News" entertainment. and an ideology based on ridiculous hypocrisy and outright lies have not only made the audience less intelligent than they were,but given them the tools to avoid cognitive dissonance and shame.

Freddie

(9,255 posts)
6. Fetus worshippers
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:39 AM
Mar 2018

No matter how immoral he is, this group only cares about one thing, period.
Then there's the "lock her up!" folks who live on another planet where Obama is still president and HRC is next. Delusional.

MichMary

(1,714 posts)
8. Why ask this question here
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:53 AM
Mar 2018

where there are literally NO Trump supporters? There are plenty of boards where you can ask the question and find out from people who actually DO support him. If this is really "an honest question" and you are asking it here, you won't get an honest answer; you are only going to get speculation from people who hate Trump and everyone who voted for him.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
9. That's not how you ask an honest question.
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 09:53 AM
Mar 2018

You can't presume the answer in such a negative sense. Think how you'd respond if somebody asked how anybody could support Democrats other than wanting free stuff or wanting to take away guns or supporting killing babies (abortion).

In order to understand somebody else's perspective, you have to set aside your own biases and beliefs and be willing to at least look at the world from their view without prejudging things.

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