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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]DFW
(54,302 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 17, 2016, 01:23 PM - Edit history (1)
They will not be betrayed--well, not in Trump's eyes, but that's only because he buys into the Republican mantra that "if you're rich, you deserve it, and if you're poor, you deserve it."
I think he somehow managed to convince half the Rust Belt that he was going to bring back the 1950s, mainly because they wanted to be convinced of it. I think he also tapped into a darker side of the equation that discloses that lots of people in a bad or hopeless situation feel better when they can be mean to someone else. This does not die out with bullying at school.
They will get exactly what they deserve--100% correct, but they THINK they deserve the opposite, and they will somehow find a way to rationalize that fact that they got conned as someone else's fault--usually "the Libbruls."
I think only some of the people who voted for Trump truly knew what they were voting for. The rest hadn't the faintest clue.
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