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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHOT TOPICWhen Someone Says They Support Trump, You Instantly Know 7 Things About Them
1. YOU WANT TO BE RULED, NOT GOVERNED:
2. YOU HAVE NO CLASS:
3. YOU ARE NOT SOMEONE I WOULD TRUST TO DO BUSINESS WITH:
4. YOURE EITHER A RACIST OR AN ENABLER OF RACISTS
5. YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH WOMEN:
6. YOU ARENT QUITE AS CHRISTIAN AS YOU CLAIM TO BE:
7. YOU ARE ANTI-CONSTITUTION:
http://www.bluedotdaily.com/when-someone-says-they-support-trump-you-instantly-know-7-things-about-them/
randr
(12,408 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,362 posts)I would say, "You have a tendency to believe fiction over fact."
liberal N proud
(60,289 posts)You like to be told what to think.
azureblue
(2,122 posts)You are an easily fooled patsy. You got conned by con man Trump but you refuse to admit it.
certainot
(9,090 posts)or to someone who does
Squinch
(50,672 posts)say "You are a sexist?"
I have issues with spiders. That doesn't mean that I work for the subjugation of spiders. Trump voters work for the subjugation of women. Can we please stop watering down this issue?
Johnathan146
(141 posts)Squinch
(50,672 posts)of color who voted for him is a racist.
He is a serial abuser of women. If you voted for him, you are condoning the serial abuse of women. So yes, if you voted for him you are a sexist.
Beartracks
(12,754 posts)... they were operating under the belief that the tales of his sexual misconduct were just lies from the "liberal media."
Many of these people live in a false reality where they are seriously misinformed.
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Squinch
(50,672 posts)he was a serial molester of women and then they voted for him, they knowingly voted for a serial molester of women. They are, by definition and at the very least, sexists.
Why do people work so hard to deny this uncontestable fact?
Beartracks
(12,754 posts)I think you give many of his supporters way too much credit for supposedly paying attention.
Unfortunately, I think many of them simply knew they weren't going to vote for the Democrat, or knew they weren't going to vote for Hillary... and any mention they might've ever heard of ANY of his sins and crimes was only in the context of a denial against "the liberal media."
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Squinch
(50,672 posts)to defend their sexism and racism.
It was not really possible in those weeks to miss all the news reports showing Twitler bragging about grabbing pussy.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)When you are raised in a culture that teaches you from day one that men are your superiors by divine decree, unless you get really lucky you know no other way of seeing the world.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)gulliver
(13,142 posts)Desperate, skill value plummeting, families falling apart. They were spooked into a stampede by ISIS, Putin, and the Republicans. They are thinking "run for the lifeboats," and they don't care about anyone's opinion concerning how they get there. Will they do evil? Damn right they will.
No one's going to shame anyone into anything. If we are going to establish the liberal, sustainable, just, human-centric philosophy we all know is right, we will not do it by emotional "force." We won't do it by rhetoric, at least not the weak tea rhetoric we currently use. We are going to have to bribe people with a better world.
Squinch
(50,672 posts)who saw through his bull and didn't vote for him and against their own self interest.
So what is different about these people?
This is not about shaming anyone. This is about knowing who we are dealing with. It is important to realize that these self-evident characteristics are true so we don't make the mistake of losing our souls trying to woo them and we don't misunderstand what they are.
mountain grammy
(26,553 posts)Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)azureblue
(2,122 posts)They watch Fox news. They, like the proverbial frog in a pot, have been watching Fox for so long, they are brainwashed, and are inoculated against facts and logic. I got a couple of them in my family. When I refute their pronouncements with facts, references, and reason, they respond with, "we'll have to agree to disagree." IOW, they aren't going to change their minds even though they have been told the truth....
Squinch
(50,672 posts)It always comes back around to a willingness to believe what confirms one's bigotry and sexism.
That's why the message is so durable, even among intelligent people and even when the message is provably false. Because the message is not what they are there for. They are there for confirmation of their bigotry and sexism. You could put Hillary's plans that would benefit them on their breakfast plate with a personalized invitation to read it, and they will STILL say that she would do nothing to benefit them.
This is why we cannot waste time trying to win those people over. We will not. We are wasting our time with all our handwringing about how we wronged the rust belt white working class. We need to move on to the heretofore disinterested. That is where our votes will come from.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Beartracks
(12,754 posts)I heard that somewhere before, and then a DUer posted it again recently, which is why it was fresh in my mind.
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Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)Wrote it down so I can use it over and over and over. Thanks for sharing it.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Don't look anything up and dismiss anything that proves they are wrong, which is all the time.
Initech
(99,881 posts)Trump is the biggest asshole we've ever elected president.
uponit7771
(90,193 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)TeamPooka
(24,123 posts)Phoenix61
(16,926 posts)People don't think well when they are scared, even people who usually have very good critical thinking skills. Trump gave them targets for their fears, Mexicans, Muslims etc and told them he would make them go away. He would take on those bad, evil politicians and money grubbing Wall Street guys and make them go away too. If you're scared enough, you'll believe just about anything. Sadly, very, very sadly they completely missed the fact that Trump is the scariest thing of all.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,144 posts)One thing Hillary did that was spot on was come up with the perfect word to describe them along with the most deplorable of them all, the big orange pig they adore.
Liberty Belle
(9,525 posts)Anyone who thinks that a billionaire who outsources his own company's work overseas and has cheated thousands of people he's done business with would actually care about working class people's problems is in la-la land. They are truly not in touch with reality.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Together
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,607 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)I will edit!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,607 posts)The headline say "they" meaning tRump supporters, and "you" meaning the reader.
But the 7 points totally contradict that by switching "you" to mean the tRump supporters.
The reader experiences cognitive dissonance and thus the writer is less effective with the points.
... Let alone the shouting all caps bogosity.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)Not just half.....ALL of them.