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I've been around 50 years. Seen a lot. Remember Nixon. Suffered through Reagan. And of course W. I've never seen anything like this as far as believing any crapola their candidate throws out there. In fact, not even close.
Curious. Thoughts?
patsimp
(915 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Vulnerable impressive people who voted republican and have been deceived over and over, the Svengali comes along with his con man talking points and they fell under his spell.
Social scientists will really get a lot of research about people being manipulated by the ultimate media created con man.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)and the fascist are artful propagandists. They have bought up the media, not just in the USA, but globally. Tghey use the media to overthrow democracy wherever they can, Brazil most recently, and will do the same wherever they can if there is enough profit to be had. The biggest pot of gold is the USA's mineral wealth.
cutroot
(869 posts)You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln,
dalton99
(781 posts)semby2
(246 posts)IMHO, Trump has brought out in the open what the Republican party has always been. Murdoch spends millions trying to give the party a patina of respectability. Trump peeled that off.
ffr
(22,649 posts)GOTV. Volunteer. Make food for your field office. Donate your time or some money. Elections cost money.
And of course, get everyone you know around you to vote.
We're in scary times.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)if - God help us - he were to be elected. He's promised all kinds of things that he can't possibly deliver because those things are some combination of impossible, unconstitutional and ridiculous. The Mexico wall? Not gonna happen. Jobs for everybody because he cuts corporate taxes? Tried before, didn't work; anyhow, the president doesn't control the tax code. Deport all the undocumented immigrants? That's 11 million people; how can that actually be done (and it would crush the economy if it happened).
Politicians often promise a lot that never actually happens, but the stuff Trump promises can't possibly happen. His supporters, like an awful lot of Americans in general, don't know how our government works (and Trump himself apparently doesn't, either), so they really believe he can "save" them by creating jobs and getting rid of the immigrants who (they think) have taken theirs. Many Trumpites are racist and are motivated by racism, but some are just desperate for some strong leader who can "fix" things for them. But Trump, as usual, is running a con. He doesn't care about whether he really can build a wall to keep out the Mexicans; he just knows that it's an idea that sells well with people who think Mexicans are taking their jobs (and raping). If he got elected the con would be exposed - even with a GOP congress he couldn't do much of what he promises - and his supporters would be left with egg on their faces.
Yes, they are gullible. They are "authoritarian followers" who want a Big Daddy to fix things. Because they also don't know how the government actually works, they are easy marks for Trump's big con.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)voter groups that have been there all along but are now brought into the floodlights with Trump's big bigoted mouth. Maybe these factors contribute also:
1) Trump, a bigot and blowhard, exults them and excuses their lack of critical thinking;
2) the general decline of learning, including the absence of a globally competitive public school curriculum;
3) the rise of the Christian Right, especially since the 80s, as a core constituency of the GOP base;
4) the pervasive propaganda from right-wing talk radio; and
5) the reflexive notion that a 'strong leader' can appeal to ethnic/racial fears and solve society's problems.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)believe in him. What is the word for that? . Stupid?
Ratty
(2,100 posts)Like all of those "Republican Tears" videos that popped up after 2012 when Romney supporters were so certain he'd win in a landslide. The stunned looks on their faces. Delicious. I'm such a bad person.
Anyway, I can't figure out whether all the talk about Trump winning in a landslide is just them keeping morale up among the troops or whether they really believe it. Guess we'll find out soon, heh. Think I'll take the day off November 9 so I can sit at home and enjoy Republic Tears 2016 edition.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)They are the exact same voters who swept in Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes. They've always been this ignorant, this racist, this misogynist, this divisive, this impervious to reason, as many of us here at DU have correctly claimed for fifteen years.
The only difference is that some charlatan finally realized that the way to truly enthuse them is to strip away the obscure double-talk and aim straight for the mainline where hatred can flow completely through them. The American Nazis were always just skin-deep under the thin Republican hide. Now they've broken out and Republicans will have to scratch that rash for the rest of their sorry existence.