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global1

(25,241 posts)
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 03:44 PM Oct 2016

Trump Is Not Responsible For Turning His Supporters Into Deplorables....

he didn't create them in the sense that they were just common folk and he created them out of thin air or out of the blue because of his platform and positions.

No - what he did was unleash their pent up anger at the system that forced them to be politically correct and not give them an opportunity to say what they feel. He gives them a release. He gives them the courage to vent their racism, misogyny, islamophobia, xenophobia, etc and allowed them to express themselves under the cover of Trump himself - who isn't politically correct. They've harbored these feelings but weren't - until Trump arrived on the scene - able to express their feelings.

Now they feel embolden. They feel freed of their guilt of hiding their feelings and that it is suddenly alright to say those things that they kept pent up in their heads.

That is why I believe that they idolize Trump and have an undying loyalty to him. He expressed what they've felt and were unable to say. He made it ok to think and say what he says.

That is the scary thing about his followers. Now that they have become unleashed - where will it stop? How far will Trump and his followers take it?



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Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
2. Since Nixon, the Republican Party has gone through realignment to White Nationalist party
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 03:52 PM
Oct 2016

It began with Nixon's Southern Strategy and accelerated with the Tea Party movement until it is now complete.

Conservatism is dead, though they like to use that word.

They are White Ultra-Nationalists. I don't know where that party goes from here. I will not be surprised if a new party appears after the election, and Republican joins the Whig Party as an historical term.

 

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)
8. I'm glad Trump is the nominee
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:07 PM
Oct 2016

Think of all the congress races we will win simply by tying all GOP candidates with him.

 

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
9. And that is pretty much how Hitler got normal citizens to commit genocide
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:08 PM
Oct 2016

This is the fault of the GOP for having ZERO balls. They are pathetic.

Hekate

(90,633 posts)
10. He just lifted up the rocks and scraped our the sewers. It will take ages to chase them back...
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:25 PM
Oct 2016

...and clean up the stench.

I mean it.

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
11. 50% of the population is below average
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:40 PM
Oct 2016

And his 30% is WAAAAAY below average. Unfortunately that's just how the bell shaped curve works.

What changed is that about 30 years we started celebrating stupidity.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
12. important truth here
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 05:02 PM
Oct 2016

always have been here, just didn't have a national leader expressing what their hate is about.

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