Re: "So gird yourselves for a prolonged struggle."
Look, I'm from the South, the Deep South, and it was clear to me in November, 2016, the struggle was upon us for the foreseeable future for exactly the reason listed in the previous paragraphs about the true nature of the die-hard Trump voter. When they call him their "Messiah," you best …
Re: "So gird yourselves for a prolonged struggle."
Look, I'm from the South, the Deep South, and it was clear to me in November, 2016, the struggle was upon us for the foreseeable future for exactly the reason listed in the previous paragraphs about the true nature of the die-hard Trump voter. When they call him their "Messiah," you best believe it; they've been waiting for him--or someone just like him--for a very long time, over a hundred and fifty years, to be precise.
The hallmark of the true Trump voter, their sine qua non, is racism, pure and simple. Every other so-called "reason" for voting MAGA easily can be reduced to that sickness still festering in the body politic of America. Vote Blue and Save the Union.
All the intellectualising regarding Trump voters comes down to exactly what HollyValera says - it’s pure and simple racism. Dislike, mistrust, of “the other”. These voters don’t care about the economy as such, other than their belief that they have been cheated out of their birthright. They don’t care about anything other than that they want a return to pre Civil war days, where the white Christian’s ruled the country, held sway over the economy and any liberal thoughts were ignored, irrelevant and considered to be against the precepts of the Church and thus of a just society that supported only white men as the rulers of this country - and that rule was to be maintained with the gun in one hand and the Bible in the other. Trump understands what these people fear. What they have always feared - Black and Brown people, immigrants of every sort other than those from white Protestant Christian European countries. Asians, Jews and Muslims. He knows they hate liberals, intellectuals, and anyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. And he feeds right into that. These people are so filled with hate, they cannot see their own hypocrisy. They cannot see the myriad faults Trump and his cronies display minute by minute. All of that is forgiven because they want THEIR country back. They don’t care that the majority believe differently. Believe in some sort of compromise in society - help for the downtrodden and those less fortunate. Allowing people the choice of abortion vs no abortion rather than being forced to accept a newborn with incurable disease, or genetic malformations, or perhaps a child they don’t have the means to care for properly. Allowing people the choice of whom they wish to spend their lives with when that choice has no effect upon anyone but themselves and their friends and family. They just want to force others to live the way they want to live. Blinded by the fact that their choices may actually not be the right ones or the just ones. But they know better - Trump knows better how we all should live? The real irony of course is that Trump couldn’t care a damn about any of these beliefs. He doesn’t care a damn about any of these MAGA cult followers. They are just the fools he needs to bring him back to power so that he can exercise the only thing important to him. The power over all his enemies. The ability to enrich himself and his cronies. And the ability to exact revenge and retribution over those who have tried to hold his narcism, his vitriol, his racism, his nastiness in check. It’s time these people woke up! It’s time we all woke up! We need to stop Trump or for that matter any of the present GOP members from ever holding power ever again until they can again return to the true values upon which this country was established, despite the many blemishes that we have allowed since its birth.
Racism combined with messianic fervor among the evangelicals. But in all cases, Trump gives a voice to those Americans who are scared, paranoid, anxious and fearful of a future they don’t understand any longer. It’s really a dangerous combination.
When you examine the preconditions for any major war, they always boil down to what Mao called “rice bowl” issues.
Put it this way: what are these people so afraid of? I posit it’s watching what’s happened to Black, Hispanic and otherwise marginalized folks who were unfortunate enough to fall afoul of Those In Power, i.e. them. It’s my experience most Trump voters are deeply frightened people without much real understanding of the forces that control their lives, hence their fervent desire for someone who platforms their fears and thereby confirms them as “reality.”
It doesn’t hurt when that someone can’t be shut. the. fuck. up., no matter how much damage he inflicts on reasonable people.
Re: "So gird yourselves for a prolonged struggle."
Look, I'm from the South, the Deep South, and it was clear to me in November, 2016, the struggle was upon us for the foreseeable future for exactly the reason listed in the previous paragraphs about the true nature of the die-hard Trump voter. When they call him their "Messiah," you best believe it; they've been waiting for him--or someone just like him--for a very long time, over a hundred and fifty years, to be precise.
The hallmark of the true Trump voter, their sine qua non, is racism, pure and simple. Every other so-called "reason" for voting MAGA easily can be reduced to that sickness still festering in the body politic of America. Vote Blue and Save the Union.
This. Always this.
All the intellectualising regarding Trump voters comes down to exactly what HollyValera says - it’s pure and simple racism. Dislike, mistrust, of “the other”. These voters don’t care about the economy as such, other than their belief that they have been cheated out of their birthright. They don’t care about anything other than that they want a return to pre Civil war days, where the white Christian’s ruled the country, held sway over the economy and any liberal thoughts were ignored, irrelevant and considered to be against the precepts of the Church and thus of a just society that supported only white men as the rulers of this country - and that rule was to be maintained with the gun in one hand and the Bible in the other. Trump understands what these people fear. What they have always feared - Black and Brown people, immigrants of every sort other than those from white Protestant Christian European countries. Asians, Jews and Muslims. He knows they hate liberals, intellectuals, and anyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. And he feeds right into that. These people are so filled with hate, they cannot see their own hypocrisy. They cannot see the myriad faults Trump and his cronies display minute by minute. All of that is forgiven because they want THEIR country back. They don’t care that the majority believe differently. Believe in some sort of compromise in society - help for the downtrodden and those less fortunate. Allowing people the choice of abortion vs no abortion rather than being forced to accept a newborn with incurable disease, or genetic malformations, or perhaps a child they don’t have the means to care for properly. Allowing people the choice of whom they wish to spend their lives with when that choice has no effect upon anyone but themselves and their friends and family. They just want to force others to live the way they want to live. Blinded by the fact that their choices may actually not be the right ones or the just ones. But they know better - Trump knows better how we all should live? The real irony of course is that Trump couldn’t care a damn about any of these beliefs. He doesn’t care a damn about any of these MAGA cult followers. They are just the fools he needs to bring him back to power so that he can exercise the only thing important to him. The power over all his enemies. The ability to enrich himself and his cronies. And the ability to exact revenge and retribution over those who have tried to hold his narcism, his vitriol, his racism, his nastiness in check. It’s time these people woke up! It’s time we all woke up! We need to stop Trump or for that matter any of the present GOP members from ever holding power ever again until they can again return to the true values upon which this country was established, despite the many blemishes that we have allowed since its birth.
Racism combined with messianic fervor among the evangelicals. But in all cases, Trump gives a voice to those Americans who are scared, paranoid, anxious and fearful of a future they don’t understand any longer. It’s really a dangerous combination.
But a familiar dangerous combination.
When you examine the preconditions for any major war, they always boil down to what Mao called “rice bowl” issues.
Put it this way: what are these people so afraid of? I posit it’s watching what’s happened to Black, Hispanic and otherwise marginalized folks who were unfortunate enough to fall afoul of Those In Power, i.e. them. It’s my experience most Trump voters are deeply frightened people without much real understanding of the forces that control their lives, hence their fervent desire for someone who platforms their fears and thereby confirms them as “reality.”
It doesn’t hurt when that someone can’t be shut. the. fuck. up., no matter how much damage he inflicts on reasonable people.