HughBeaumont
HughBeaumont's Journal"No one's looking out for the white guy anymore."
Are Trump supporters THIS willfully stupid?"I mean, it seems like we really go overboard to make sure all these other nationalities nowadays and colors have their fair shake of it, but no one's looking out for the white guy anymore," he said.
Among Trump supporters, suspicion and anger toward the Black Lives Matter movement run deep. These people say the group's name and slogan seem to convey that black lives are more important than white lives.
"I think it's bulls---," said Ziegler, the 61-year-old diehard Trump fan who attended his Columbus, Ohio, rally. "All lives matter. You know this is bulls---- about black lives matter -- doesn't all lives matter?"
It's the last word in Trump's now-ubiquitous campaign slogan -- "Make America Great Again" -- that seems to have touched a nerve. Recent polls show that white people increasingly feel that the American Dream is out of reach, and a sizable group of white Americans feel they are subjected to racial discrimination -- a perception of the white experience shared by few minorities.
Almost half of whites -- 47% -- said in a November CNN/Kaiser Family Foundation survey that there is discrimination against whites, far more than the share of blacks and Hispanics who said the same.
And just over half of whites said they did not support the Black Lives Matter movement. Whereas 86% of blacks said the justice system was tilted toward white people, only 48% of whites said the same.
At the Trump rally in Myrtle Beach, where signs that read "silent majority" dotted the crowd, Patricia Saunders told CNN that Trump is speaking directly to a segment of the population that feels left behind and marginalized.
"White Americans founded this country," said Saunders, 64. "We are being pushed aside because of the President's administration and the media."
Ah, yes, Patty . . . . because those six corporations that own all the media have totally been on the President's side these past 8 years.
Explain This To Me Like I'm A Complete Idiot, Part 16: "Exceptional", just like everyone else?
Real quick:
Conservatives have two philosophies when it comes to economic success:
"Not all men are created equal, despite what the Declaration of Independence tells you."
"Anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, learn to take risks and succeed on their own!"
OK. So, what's the message here?
"Most of you are going to be cogs while a few of you are going to be exceptionally successful. But if you fail at being a cog (or, more likely, your role as a cog has been forcibly removed), then the solution is to be individually exceptional, good luck."??
In one breath, they're telling me that someone like Carly Fiorina is more worthy than thou and we suck; but, despite the fact that we suck, the solution is for us to be innovative risk takers (like Carly, lolz), which apparently requires special vaguely-stated skills and mysterious intangibles to see through?
Gee, thanks. I never thought of that before.
If "anyone can be successful", how's come so few people are? Does it revolve around traits that the successful know of and for us to never find out about?
And if wealthy conservatives truly wanted everyone to be successful, then how would that square with statement number one? How would that phenomena make them "exceptional"?
Explain this to me like I'm a complete idiot because I don't get it.
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