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In reply to the discussion: Ready to Play Nice? No Fucking Way! [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(23,031 posts)This analogy does not apply to most Trump voters, just some of them.
It is the middle of the month. A family of five is living in a rental house. Rent is a thousand a month and due in nine days. Food costs $100 a week. They just cashed a paycheck but had to pay cash for a small fuel oil shipment to keep the house warm enough to live in. They filled up the gas tank so the bread winner can get to work. They have $80 to get them to the next paycheck which won't be enough to pay their rent, not even late. The land lord has had it with them being late on payments.
They can budget their remaining $80 wisely and the kids will still end up going hungry and the family will still get thrown out on the street. Or they can take half of it and buy some lotto tickets. The odds of winning are ridiculously low, embarrassingly low. But it is dimly within the realm of possibility. If they win big they can afford food for the kids and they can keep their home. If they lose, as is extremely likely, they will run out of money a few days earlier than they would have had they not gambled on those lotto tickets. They gamble on an extreme long shot. At the stage they are at they feel there is nothing really left to lose, they will get screwed anyway if they "act responsibly" and spend their last few dollars on 8 more jars of peanut butter instead.
The above is not a literal description, rather it is an allegory for mental desperation. Some Trump voters were not comfortable with their votes, they were at the point of just giving up. Judgement was suspended.
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