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Found in my facebook feed...
An anguished question from a Trump supporter: Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?
The serious answer: Heres what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...
That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."
That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."
That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."
That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."
That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you chirped, "He sure knows me."
That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, "That's cool!"
That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.
That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"
That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."
That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"
That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"
That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"
That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."
That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"
That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"
That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."
That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"
That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that theyre just animals - and you say, Well, OK then.
That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.
What you don't get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.
Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.
-by Florida writer Adam-Troy Castro #AdamTroyCastro
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)About a month ago I was asked the same question and by a Dem aquaintance. My mouth dropped open since I didn't know if she was serious and then I didn't know how to respond without taking an hour. I will bookmark this.
captain queeg
(10,168 posts)Grasswire2
(13,566 posts)there will be no doubt in your mind what kind of people adore him.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)I'd prefer to poke my eyes with red hot nails.
UTUSN
(70,681 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Some of them are stupid. All of them are god damned selfish racist heartless jackwagons. Every one of them. I quit pretending otherwise some time ago.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)I'm sure that most of them take care of business like normal Americans --- love the kids, pay their mortgages,
etc. However, they are on a completely different plane in terms of citizenship, moral direction, levels of compassion and empathy.
I'm 61, and I've never seen our society look as fractured to me it does right now. I've also never encountered the levels of political
ignorance in Americans that I see now. I had to pass civics and Constitution tests in the 8th grade, and in my Senior year at High School. What drives me insane is the number of people my age, who I've known all my life, who have become far right nuts and hard core magaheads. I see footage from those MAGA rallies, and most of the people look just like my neighbors. We were the 70's youth, who entered our 20's as Reagan was being installed. We also didn't live in 24/7 news feed times. A little younger than the Woodstock kids, but only a year or so too young for the draft. We cared about the World, and our nation. So many I know have lost that. They were broken somewhere along the way. Mostly because the jobs went away long ago. They've been underemployed and pissed off about it for 30+ years. They're aiming their anger in the wrong direction.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)You are absolute spot on. You put it very well. And I could agree more.
Jim_S
(58 posts)I'm 67 and lucky to be retired for just over two years. There was certainly much social unrest back during the riots (I was born in Detroit) and the Viet Nam years. There was a division back then but it's different now. One of the books that helped me understand how we got here was the book 'Dark Money' along with 'Democracy in Chains'. The contrived sewing of discontent in our country did not happen overnight. It has been a long determined process by the 'monied' people many who the majority of citizens have not even heard of. The 'puss oozing orange anal blister' is no accident. Things will not magically get better if he is defeated in the next election. There has to be systemic fundamental changes in many things. We can start with money in our elections and the compressed ownership of our 'lame-stream media'.
3catwoman3
(23,971 posts)It reads like a NanceGreggs post.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Nance -- We LOVE you and now you have inspired others to speak eloquently as well.
3catwoman3
(23,971 posts)...I intended it.
BTW, I have actually eaten haggis for breakfast, while in Edinburgh, and I liked it.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Breakfast is the most important meal of the day !!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,227 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)that distinguished, Medal of Freedom-winning American.....
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)mjvpi
(1,388 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Reagan is like goddamn herpes...the fucking gift that just keeps on giving and giving and giving some more...
Without Reagan, we would NEVER have had Bush II...
Without Bush II, we would NEVER have had Palin...
Without Palin, we would NEVER have had Trump...
The downward trajectory is fucking obvious, each one dumber and more crass and more evil than the last...from born again stupid, to stupid born again to just flat out fucking drop the pretense and be stupid stupid stupid on every thing.
Shakespeare himself could not have written a more tragic script for the demise of the American experiment in self-rule and governance than what we the people have allowed the propaganda ministers of the right wing churn out 24/7 into the empty heads of the easily duped and wantonly cruel.
Perfectly stated. Ray-Gun was the horrible piece of shit that started it all. And they still worship at the old dead fuck's altar like he was the Second Coming (another idiotic pursuit).
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,841 posts)Because they are.
dchill
(38,471 posts)hay rick
(7,604 posts)I think they are morally damaged. As the writer says..."if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering."
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Calling them stupid grants them the benefit of the doubt.
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keithbvadu2
(36,770 posts)Substitute the word 'hypocrites' for 'stupid'.
eilen
(4,950 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)Risking a full scale war with Iran.
Blundering into the covid-19 situation.
Denying desperately needed assistance to Ukrain for personal political gain.
and on an on...
skypilot
(8,853 posts)That you watch him licking Putin's boots and think "That's fine, we SHOULD make friends with murderous dictators".
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Pieces of shit, hell yes.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)You know, regular human stuff. But they lack kindness, empathy, and generosity.
McKim
(2,412 posts)They feed off anger and selfishness. They love a good fight. Its no accident that Trump used to be a wrestling MC, he sounds like one. This is a tradition starting with the Scotts Irish who fought at the border for 800 years. They came in ships to Charleston Harbor in colonial times and their descendants carry on that love of the fight
Polly Hennessey
(6,793 posts)and morally damaged. A waste of time looking for their good qualities. We have tried and failed to find any.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)"Keep the goverment's hands off my social security", that could be considered a clue.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Goodheart
(5,318 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)all of the ones I've met are.
Therefore, I concluded that probably being stupid was one of the requirements for supporting Trump.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)Liberals and centrists cannot fathom why right-wingers are so willing to put their interests aside (examples: healthcare, retirement benefits, clean air and water) and vote for lying, amoral crooks.
I cant believe that it was just centrists and leftists parents who told their children never to trust a liar or never to buy a pig in a poke.
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)It's all about REPUBLiCANS!!!
They have supported every element of the list in your post.
bloom
(11,635 posts)They may not have seen any of those things on that list. Their news, as I understand it, tries to show Trump only is a good light.
We as the ones who are painted as bad.
They live in a different world from us.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)that if their liberal friend post anything, they will disagree. The sun is shining. No, the sun never shines. They have every opportunity to know the truth, they just wont accept it. Some of them do realize that they have been conned but are too embarrassed to say they made a big mistake.
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,227 posts)2naSalit
(86,534 posts)There's just somethin' ain't right in their heads.
Joinfortmill
(14,414 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)Nitram
(22,791 posts)totalitarian fascist state. Stupid I guess I can understand. The alternative means many of my fellow American citizens are fascists. You know, the people we defeated in WWII?