Winning votes by selling hate
Last edited Wed Feb 24, 2016, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)
Trump is sure as hell on a roll. He keeps winning with between 30 to 40 percent of the vote. How’s he doing it? He’s doing it by openly and loudly selling hate.
He’s selling hate of Mexicans. He’s selling hate of Muslims. He’s selling hate of everyone that his voters hate because they hear their hatreds in Trump’s generalizations and in the open ended phrases he uses. His voters just “Know” that Trump hates everybody they hate. And he’s going to fix it. He’s going to “give them their country back.”
Strangest of all the haters are the evangelicals who are voting for him. It seems they love to hate more than they love their sky wizard.
Of course, there’s still a chance that Trump won’t get the nomination. Just think, the Republicans might end up with Cruz or Rubio. Now there are a couple of alternatives you can really warm up to. Yeah, they too are selling hate, but at least they’re a bit more subtle about it. Well, except for Cruz who wears his hatred on his sleeve. And Rubio who carries his hate around in his pocket next to his Tea Party credentials.
So here’s the really scary part. What if one of these three beat our nominee? What if one of them ends up in the Oval Office?
“It can’t happen,” you say. Who the hell thought that Trump could ever get this far? Who could have imagined there were so many haters in this country?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. As a matter of fact, be terrified. And then get every Dem you know to the polls in November, even if you have to drag them there.
On edit: Actually, the entire Republican Party platform has been built on hate for decades. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was about hate for the advances being made by black people. The current Middle East disaster was sold to us using hate of (brown/Muslim) terrorists. And of course, over the past eight years, the Republican Party has had on full display their disrespect of, and their hatred for, the black man in the White House. Hate. It's the single word that describes the Republican's Number One Product.