[quote=zk][quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, I think people who even consider voting for Trump are hopeless.
We are listing the reasons not to vote for Trump here for fun, but I don’t think those people can be educated. I believe nativist xenophobia is mainly what is driving the support for Trump, the other stuff doesn’t matter.
Don’t you think politics this year will cause a rift between friends and family? Thankfully I don’t have family voting for Trump. But I have totally lost respect for some friends. I don’t care to have friends who are Trump supporters. They say they want to tell it like it is, but they are so thin-skinned and get upset so easily.. So stupid… don’t even understand the basic of tax writeoffs giving the filer a savings of deduction times the tax rate.[/quote]
I must admit I’m struggling not to lose respect for some friends who are trump voters. I knew they were voting for Bush, and I thought, well, we’ll agree to disagree. I’ve thought Bush was an idiot since before 2000, but I could, with some effort, see things from their perspective. But it’s very hard for me to see trump from their perspective and not think that it’s a willfully ignorant perspective.
Sure, they’ve been manipulated for decades by fox et al. But even despite that, surely they can see that trump is a disaster waiting to happen. Right? How could they not see that?
Maybe they can see now that they’ve been bamboozled all these years. Maybe because trump is sooo bad, but the right wing noise machine is still painting him as good, maybe the contrast between reality and right-wing “news” is finally so massive that even they at last can see it. But they don’t want to admit it to themselves, so now they’re just sliding down the rapids toward disaster without even putting up a fight. “We’re not giving up now!” I don’t know. Just a theory. I really don’t understand it.
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I guess I gave up on a large part of the public being able to do logical reasoning in an acceptable manner when I realized over half the population believed there is an all-knowing being in the sky who controls everything. If they’ll believe that, they’ll believe anything. Believing what Trump says is small potatoes compared to the Bible.
