A Trump voter's perspective

[Red Shield]

I think it can be done.

You think it can be done

 

[Red Shield]

I'm really starting to wonder if mass society in itself is just destined to be a failure. It's disgusting that my life is so intertwined with and determined by people who are absolute idiots.

Well this society is indeed destined to be destroyed.


But I don't think mass society as a whole is destined for failure. In this modern time we have enough information and history to come to final conclusions about people. People are going to have to start being realistic about human beings..

 

[无名的]

What's interesting is that many of you don't consider yourselves to be pawns.

 

[Althalucian]

What's interesting is that many of you don't consider yourselves to be pawns.

We're all pawns.

 

[AV Dicey]

that perspective of progressives going over board and conservatives freaking out in the Obama era is given short shrift...but their's truth to it.
Case in point, Manning's sentence is commuted but Bowe Bergdahl is still liable to be locked up. Obama can say it was never about Manning being transgender but perception is reality and middle America see such things and think the world as they know it is done so they say fukk it blow this bish up

Obama's policies may have been milquetoast middle of the road stuff but his politics were way too progressive for a center right country...never g check a man with nothing to lose

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I realize some of this ground has been covered extensively in many articles, stories, videos, but on a personal level, there's something to realizing the person in front of you is quite stupid, and that stupidity has led to the election of a hateful, horrific, disaster of a president, whose untold consequence has yet to be fully realized.

This.

A guy I work with voted for Trump "to shake things up" and my state was a swing state this year, so his own family was infuriated with him, and lots of us at work too have been like "you contributed to this shyt" and he feels bad...which is good. But shyt. His mistake is contributing to a lot of damage.

 

[rantanamo]

No one else gets a pass for ignorance. This aint 1992.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

His county ended up going about 70 percent for Trump.

30% of the hillbillies in his holler did not vote for Orange Hitler. Of those that did, you can bet that all of them were going to vote for whoever the Republican nominee was. The sharp division between Red and Blue was not created by Trump. It's been solidifying since Clinton's first win, I think.

 

[blackzeus]

I was talking to a girl I've known for a few years, on Tuesday, been friends with, she's a friends ex (off and on), and she's a supporter.....Though, she and her whole family are Mexican. I was trying to engage her on various questions, and it really just exposed how stupid, ignorant, and limited she is. And, this is someone with two degrees, and a decent job. I've never known her to be intelligent, but I really underestimated just how stupid.....and it's not just stupid, it's dangerous, because so many in country think like this, and I think this was evidenced by last election. It's all 'I like him....he's a nice man'.....And they know very little of actual policy, nominees, or actions he's taken.

Beyond just that, I think it is a reflection of anger, or otherwise and feeling like Obama spoke 'down' to them, simply because he is vastly more intelligent. Whether they also resent the fact he's black, is another angle, but strictly the intelligence is something I think is really prevalent. They think someone like Trump speaks like them, and for them. And "says what he means". It's really, I think in a broad way, a divide of the intellectual vs. the dumb. Obviously, some very wealthy, educated Republicans helped get him elected, but his real support that won the electoral colleges is people like this girl. And she didn't vote, but her family in Texas did.

Her mom, a public school teacher, voted for Trump, who nominated a women, who will devastate the public school budgets.

I realize some of this ground has been covered extensively in many articles, stories, videos, but on a personal level, there's something to realizing the person in front of you is quite stupid, and that stupidity has led to the election of a hateful, horrific, disaster of a president, whose untold consequence has yet to be fully realized.

The greatest unexplained phenomenon of the 21st century will be the Latinos helping to elect someone who represents the demise of their struggles to gain a foothold in the US. No amount of colorism or black on black violence can supersede this incredible demonstration of the Stockholm syndrome

 

[General Mills]

The greatest unexplained phenomenon of the 21st century will be the Latinos helping to elect someone who represents the demise of their struggles to gain a foothold in the US. No amount of colorism or black on black violence can supersede this incredible demonstation of the Stockholm syndrome

I was not surprised. I have seen so many Latinos who look down on other Brown races. Some of them act like cacs and believe they are.

 

[Crakface]

I asked my student why he voted for Trump. The answer was thoughtful, smart, and terrifying.

tl;dr at bottom



tl;dr Trump voter says the government wasn't being conservative/religious enough (the perspective fed by the media/info/perspective that is there and dominant) so they blew it up. Felt like he and his people were struggling too much.

What is important to note is that this is less about Trump, and more about his and other people's perspectives. I'm starting to think we need to stop attacking the orange cheeto, and maybe even stop going after people like Peter. We need to go at crazy right wing media. Essentially, Peter and his ilk are just pawns. Attacking them is punching way down. We need to help them see through the bullshyt.

Whats scary is you falling for this bullshiy.

 

[Althalucian]

Whats scary is you falling for this bullshiy.

What do you mean?

 

[Llcoolbay]

The majority of the people do not blame the company for their loss because they realize that businesses [are about] making money, and that if they had a business of their own, they would do the same thing."

The reason I used the Civil War and Reconstruction is because it isn't a secret that Reconstruction failed," Peter wrote. "It failed and left the South in an extreme poverty that it still hasn't recovered from." And besides, "slavery was expensive and the Industrial Revolution was about to happen. Maybe if there had been no war, slavery would have faded peacefully

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Trump getting elected makes me think we're in the matrix.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

As a black American I can't take this essay seriously. Asking me as a black male, and us as black people to understand the mindset of a Trump supporter is offensive and ignorant. Look at his essay

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To him, focusing on race was "an attention-grabbing tool that politicians use to their advantage," one that "really just annoys and angers conservatives more than anything, because it is usually a straw man attack."

As a black man who comes from a black family, As a black man who witnessed

1) Trayvon Martin
2) Philando Castillo
3) Akai Gurley
4) Eric Gardner
5)Walter Scott

Killers all go free, we as black Americans are not offered the luxury of avoiding this. Its not "attention grabbing ", its what we have to deal with.


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And besides, "slavery was expensive and the Industrial Revolution was about to happen. Maybe if there had been no war, slavery would have faded peacefully."

I'm pretty sure those white folks would've stopped slavery because of economic expense.