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ksoze

(2,068 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:10 PM Mar 2018

Here's the good news about all this Cambridge, Facebook, Russian stuff...

It gives many of those who voted for Trump an excuse to use for their mistake.

For many of these low information voters, they are locked into their vote for fear of admitting they have been duped. These media pushers and psych whatever outlets have given them an excuse to say, "Hey, I was tricked".

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Here's the good news about all this Cambridge, Facebook, Russian stuff... (Original Post) ksoze Mar 2018 OP
They should correct their mistake and vote for the other party, now that their brain is functional dalton99a Mar 2018 #1
I agree. Control-Z Mar 2018 #2
Some Trump voters may seize on this. TomSlick Mar 2018 #3
Is this story on Fux Ruse? If not than they will never even BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #4
They won't believe they were tricked. JDC Mar 2018 #5
I have even tried to help rw friends by pointing out they Abu Pepe Mar 2018 #6
Not much excuse unless they say, "I'm an ignorant racist, misogynist, greedy, homophobe, and worse, Hoyt Mar 2018 #7
They won't take it... lame54 Mar 2018 #8

TomSlick

(11,082 posts)
3. Some Trump voters may seize on this.
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:39 PM
Mar 2018

Trump's support is so low, it won't take many to doom him (I say hopefully).

JDC

(10,113 posts)
5. They won't believe they were tricked.
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:52 PM
Mar 2018

They don't believe that they were conned as it is now.... By one of the biggest grifters the world has ever seen. Nothing will change their minds. Lost cause to the hardcore 30%. CA scapegoat or not.

JMO of course.

Abu Pepe

(637 posts)
6. I have even tried to help rw friends by pointing out they
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 08:04 PM
Mar 2018

voted for other people in the primary. They arent biting. Fascism is organically growing in the hinterlands. We have been arrogant to think people have been voting against their own interests for capitalists feeding them a steady diet of xenophobia and conspiracy theories. They want those things more than they want cheaper health care. 'lets kick the shit of that guy' is simply more appealing. Communism actually required people to ready boring economic tomes. Kind of an amazing feat. Fascism needs only a mean dickhead and some violent dickheads to follow, and victims.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. Not much excuse unless they say, "I'm an ignorant racist, misogynist, greedy, homophobe, and worse,
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 08:11 PM
Mar 2018

who leans Republican, but when I saw those stories from Cambridge, FB, Ruskies, I knew I had to vote for dtrump to make america great again."

Not much of an excuse. And, I can't see anyone but a dim-wit buying into that junk.

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