If you are voting against The Donald then you probably think that the "deplorables" are, well - deplorable.
I'm not going to try to convince you that you (and sometimes I) are wrong about that. You really should read this though. It's long but surprisingly good and I would say, very important.
BTW - if you keep reading you might find out something surprising about your own taste in superheros and find some common ground with the Trump supporters. And in times like these, common ground is a very good thing.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module
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ReplyDeleteI would like to hear why you are supporting him Elizabeth Childs
ReplyDeleteI will withhold my thoughts about him on this thread because it's not really about him, as much as about his supporters.
ted kelly(null) i haven't been able to read this as of yet. I answered your question on the other post.
ReplyDeleteSo is he saying that because trump is republican, people should not vote for him?
ReplyDeleteI think the msg. is more that we should try to understand the other people even if we disagree. Since we have to live together any way, it's best to maybe just think they were wrong and not that they were bad. (or stupid)
ReplyDeleteted kelly yeah. Exactly. 4 of my neices support Hillary and I think it's just because of what Trump said to women 11 years ago. I think they supported her before that too, but I would love to just sit down with a Clinton supporter and just learn why they support Clinton. I'm really curious. But I will always love my neices regardless.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...
ReplyDeleteI would say there are many good reasons to vote for her that you would be glad to agree with. Unfortunately, there is one reason that would keep you from ever voting for her no matter what.
BTW - props to your nieces. It's not an easy decision and it takes a lot of courage to support HRC.
ted kelly yeah. Maybe, but I'm pretty doubtful. This election can't be over soon enough.
ReplyDeleteted kelly I wrote my TL;DR (as usual) refute on how the article is a ramble, and not a a valid argument, on the FB post. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhat he says is, He & Trumpeters are frustrated, and so he is entitled to vote for Trump. Well voting is an individual preference, choice, and really one does not have to explain it. But if you're going to explain it, at least do it well.
1 additional point. He writes (perhaps the only 1 fact in that whole page) that Blues 62% of population live in abt 15% of land area, while Reds 38% of people live in rest 85%. To u/stand better
Blues are 2/3rd of population, live in 1/5th area.
Reds are 1/3rd by population, live in 4/5th area.
Now aid, compensation, etc., like in Katrina, are targeted per person, per household, per family etc. When he talks about New Orleans vs MS, apart from the fact that it was under GOP's Dubya Bush who was President, larger aid concentrated in smaller area has more visible effect & jump starts local economy faster.
For e.g., using $10,000 to paint external walls of your house has far better effect, than using same $10k to paint all the fence posts of your ranch.
once more td;lr :-">
(I'll keep this short)
ReplyDeleteI'd say the most valid issue in the OP was the allusion to the Good Guy/Bad Boy Superhero adulation/fascination. Red or Blue, we want our HERO types to be bold, direct somewhat flawed.
(like myself - short and heavy ~ lol)
Actually, it shouldn't matter whether you are white, short, bulky, lean, hispanic, latino, redneck, MIT/harvard/yale educated, asian-american, christian, muslim, hindu, sikh or atheist. All you should be (and are, I'm sure) is a decent, moral, human being.
ReplyDeleteAnd to quote Christian theology, EVERYONE is flawed, except for our Lord Savior.
What I find horrible is that with the Trump supporters, that it is alright for their candidate to be flawed, but NOT for HRC to have displayed flawness (if that is a word).
By all rights, vote for whom you want, but for God's sake, please just don't say that Trump of all the people, actually reflects the Rust belt people. It is abhorrent. It is reprehensible. People who vote for Trump for President, IMHO, actually, demean themselves.
I still want them to vote, for down-vote Republicans. But really would like them to write-in Pence or Kasich.
I could probably have been okay(ish) with Kasich but Pence would have made me run for the passport office.I formed that opinion before he jumped onto the Trump ticket btw. Now my opinion of him has dropped even a little lower.
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