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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've heard people ask "How can decent people vote for Trump?" I have the answer:
DECENT people don't.
You may now smack your forehead and say "Of COURSE!"
TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)Some of them really believe that any Democrat would be worse than any Republican.
fierywoman
(7,667 posts)TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)Trump loves the poorly educated. So does the rest of the GOP.
StClone
(11,682 posts)Dangerous rot, incompetence, and waste all so the Ultra wealthy can ease their minds they've acquired the vanities they seek. For one Koch death was the only thing that stopped him.
unblock
(52,113 posts)40 years of brainwashing indeed.
they may have been decent people at some point, and they may yet be decent, but as long as they're content to stay in the grips of right-wing b.s., they're not decent people at all.
TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)But they buy it because they think it tells them what they want to hear.
unblock
(52,113 posts)because foxnews says so and that's that.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Roseville CA of Biden supporters, so when it is over the gestapo can attack those people.
Anyway she says on her block in GOD DAMN Sacramento CALIFORNIA there are 9 houses with signs, 5 Biden and 4 Traitor.
Sure nice to see the 5-4 win I guess, but this pisses me off. Those people are enemies of the NATION AND HUMAN RACE.
The Magistrate
(95,241 posts)That is how you tell. Someone who votes for this cheapo thug is not a decent person.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)something sterile like "Trumpists", but "MAGAts" will always seem more appropriate to me.
The Magistrate
(95,241 posts)They are a blight upon the country.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)samsingh
(17,590 posts)we can never forgive these people who care nothing about democracy, integrity, and humanity.
J_William_Ryan
(1,748 posts)a great deal of fear, ignorance, and hate in America and its voting for Trump.
Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)Shermann
(7,399 posts)A little logical fallacy humor there.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)I have met a few decent people who support the Monster, but mostly because they are simply ignorant of the facts or they have been brainwashed by a best friend or relative or Fox news. For the most part, though, the Trump supporters I have met or known are greedy self-serving assholes with no decent bone in their body.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)I didn't ask because I really didn't want to know but from the way she talks she voted for the asshole. And she's laid off right now. She was NOT raised this way.
Clearly fogged in
(1,896 posts)rats with lifeboats
Silent3
(15,140 posts)...but that's a stretch.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)good husband and father, commutes almost 3 hours a day, works hard, served in military, put two kids through college, takes in stray cats, etc. He doesn't pay attention to news and thinks Trump is good for the economy.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)People *love* that.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)head up their wazoo OR they are cut from the same soiled cloth as he is.
Either option is outside my definition of decent.