'I Was Naive': Trump Supporters Who Were on Strike, and Lost, Fear for the Future

[workinclasszero]

'I Was Naive': Trump Supporters Who Were on Strike, and Lost, Fear for the Future
After a pitched battle with management, Momentive workers have seen their healthcare and retirement benefits slashed.
By Dominic Rushe, Tom Pietrasik / The Guardian February 25, 2017

Workers went on strike at Momentive last November hoping to fight off a new contract that would have slashed their healthcare and retirement benefits.

The industrial action started in the white-hot heat of the election, and many of Momentive’s workers voted for Donald Trump, whose appeal to blue-collar workers helped Trump comfortably beat Hillary Clinton in Saratoga County, Waterford’s district.

http://www.alternet.org/i-was-naive-trump-supporters-who-were-strike-and-lost-fear-future

[dchill]

1. 'I Was Naive': No, you were mean and stupid.

And probably still are. Now you just feel sorry for yourself.

Just a guess.

[JCanete]

8. they were naive. They were/are ignorant. Cruelty often comes from a lack of empathy.

Unless somebody is actually physically incapable of empathy, not having it for some person or group is a condition of ignorance.

[dchill]

9. And ignorance is often willful...

a condition for which I have little empathy.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

15. I think the irony flew right over your head

eom

[irisblue]

2. a quote from the article

From the article....Robert Hohn "...sending our kids and grandkids to college." well you trump supporter, you made damn sure through your own stupidity in voting trump & republicans, that your kids & grand kid's will do less well then you. You made this possible. Your shame.

[workinclasszero]

5. It's insane that any worker, much less a union worker

Would think Trump and his republican party would actually be on their side?

You got to be shitting me!

I think it still comes down to race, I really do.

[irisblue]

6. and gender. Hohn was ignorant enough to think trump was a friend, he would likely never vote

for a woman at a federal level. I admit to curosity, did he vote for Clinton or Gilibrand?

[workinclasszero]

7. Yes I'm sure that's part of it too

[Horse with no Name]

3. Your willful naivet will cause

Untold harm on this country.


On edit. Damned autocorrect. I'm going to leave it because it won't allow the correction. Lol

[Doreen]

4. That guy said he had not clue that what was happening to

him was happening across America. He obviously did not pay attention because it was right there on the news, in papers, in magazines, and all over the internet. Only an idiot or a person who chooses to close their eyes and ears would not know what is going on across the country.

[Blue Idaho]

10. Dude...

You drank the Kool Aid - better luck next time.

[PoiBoy]

11. The effect of unrelenting propaganda...

...otherwise known as "the Media" has melted their brains...

The comments at the article are absolutely brutal...

So sad... too bad...

[NastyRiffraff]

12. Yet another one

They're crawling out of the woodwork now that the ugly reality is slowly penetrating their thick skulls. They voted for a man who CLEARLY is a racist, misogynist,xenophobe, homophobe, a self-proclaimed billionaire(?) whom they believed cared about middle-class workers. And now they're surprised that he has shown zero inclination to help them!

Sorry, I have NO sympathy.

[workinclasszero]

13. There will be millions

that will regret drinking Trump's poison kool aid.

I don't know that this country will survive their brainwashed insanity.

[coco22]

14. They thought because Trump said..

he was a businessman he would get them jobs. Didn't I hear the same thing when they voted for George W?

[dalton99a]

16. That's the thanks you get for loving a scammer.