It sounds like many of us are doing our best to educate. (Reply #27)

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Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:19 PM

guillaumeb (37,412 posts)

27. It sounds like many of us are doing our best to educate.

But we are fighting true believers in many cases. And they will not blame Trump no matter what he proposes.

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72 replies	Author	Time	Post
I think progressives need to understand Trump voters. No, really. [View all]	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	OP
Well done	WomanWhoRoars	Feb 2017	#1
Welcome to DU, WWR.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#2
Not all Trump voters are asshole, but.....	world wide wally	Feb 2017	#3
I do not know all of them.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#4
Trump voters lack the same sense of morality and decency as we do.	geek tragedy	Feb 2017	#5
Angry, confused, and thus easily manipulated.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#6
Thanks	WomanWhoRoars	Feb 2017	#7
They take their persecution issues into the voting booth	leftstreet	Feb 2017	#9
Their candidate may have won,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#10
Do you think the people you know who voted for him understand they voted for a man who	BeckyDem	Feb 2017	#8
I do not think that Trump is particularly intelligent,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#13
I was curious if the people you know talk about what is happening	BeckyDem	Feb 2017	#20
I just talked with a Trump voter over the weekend.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#24
I think what I understand is some will never see past their own bigotry and we must not pander to	BeckyDem	Feb 2017	#26
It sounds like many of us are doing our best to educate.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#27
I have 3 Trumpers in my FB collective.	CrispyQ	Feb 2017	#11
A ranking of people to hate?	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#15
Oh they will find someone to blame, for sure!	CrispyQ	Feb 2017	#21
8 years of GOP obstruction was just fine,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#25
Lonesome Dove	njhoneybadger	Feb 2017	#12
Trump will continue on his way as his supporters become his victims.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#16
Lately I have been thinking that these supporters	logosoco	Feb 2017	#14
There is a strain of US Christianity that is termed the prosperity Gospel.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#17
The Prosperity Gospel is not just religious, although it might as well be	YoungDemCA	Feb 2017	#32
They don't want to understand us. Why should we return the favor?	Initech	Feb 2017	#18
Oh I agree. And my post expands on that.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#22
who said, "the line between voting for a bigot and being one is so fine as to be invisible"?	unblock	Feb 2017	#19
Agreed. Well said.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#23
The Rude Pundit said that. nt	tblue37	Feb 2017	#58
ah, thanks!	unblock	Feb 2017	#59
Good points to know	Kimchijeon	Feb 2017	#28
Accessories before the fact to his agenda.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#31
I disagree.	jrthin	Feb 2017	#29
I believe that some voted for him because they want to believe	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#30
I think Conservadems need to "understand" them	zipplewrath	Feb 2017	#33
Very true. Trade deals without conditions to protect labor	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#34
I've never bought this argument. They moved to the Republican party for cultural reasons.	geek tragedy	Feb 2017	#35
Agreed on you points about GOP working class voters.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#38
The unions managed them	zipplewrath	Feb 2017	#41
a lot of truth to what you write.	geek tragedy	Feb 2017	#46
Changing model with changing times	zipplewrath	Feb 2017	#72
Trump voters I have talked to largely voted for him because he's something different,	PatsFan87	Feb 2017	#36
Trump voters fell for Trump's lies.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#39
Bullshit. A Trump voter who is not racist or islamophobic or both is an extremely rare beast.	retread	Feb 2017	#37
I know a few admitted Trump voters. Most of that few are racist.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#40
Yet it seems that "sample size" was enough to support your op?	retread	Feb 2017	#44
My post was about support for a racist, etc being a tacit acceptance	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#50
Aside from disagreeing with the premise, I found it very thin on substance.	retread	Feb 2017	#70
I am saying that voting for Trump is acceptance of all that Trump is.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#71
My feeling on Trump voters,	agincourt	Feb 2017	#42
So you feel that 80% of Trump voters	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#43
Some of this support is a media creation as well	agincourt	Feb 2017	#47
Progressive candidates and their campaigns	FogerRox	Feb 2017	#45
And progressives must try to appeal to all voters,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#51
A few interactions with the morons	DiverDave	Feb 2017	#48
You are putting cold water on their warm right wing fantasies.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#52
They knew what they were doing. I will not excuse inexcusable behavior. n/t	Coventina	Feb 2017	#49
Yes they did. No matter their professed motivation,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#53
They validated him...	Freedomofspeech	Feb 2017	#54
Agreed. And you should not.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#55
Trump did not hide his fascistic self.	MineralMan	Feb 2017	#56
A good addition. Agreed. eom	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#60
When you say 'progressives', are you implying...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#57
Well, I said progressives.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#61
Well, then I completely don't understand your thread and this post...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#62
What is your understanding of the post?	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#63
I go back to my original question...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#64
The post IS the major point.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#65
Ok, one last try...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#66
Now I understand.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#67
Technically, an English teacher or an Editor would instruct you to fix this...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#68
Given that yours was the first comment expressing confusion,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#69

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