Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPID?

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Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPID?

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:15 am

An anguished question from a Trump supporter: "Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?"

The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you chirped, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids. has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “well, ok then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don't get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#2 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:08 pm

You so cute.
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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#3 Post by Ritterskoop » Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:06 pm

For what it's worth, which is probably very little, I don't think all Trump supporters are stupid.

I think some were out of work because of automation and other forces, and they wanted to work, and they thought he would make that happen. For all I know, he has.

I think some were tired of politics as usual, and thought he would shake things up, which he has.

I agree with maybe ten percent of his policies, but there are a lot of topics on which I have no opinion or am neutral.

Every topic isn't either/or.

For the most part, I find him rude, and am not thrilled with how my students from other nations see us now. There is a list as long as my arm of things I don't like about him. But so what? I'd rather spend time electing someone else than yammering about it here.
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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#4 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:37 pm

You could substitute (insert Dem) into the initial post. You need to not be so literal. Juch is trolling with crap from the internet.
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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#5 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:15 pm

Beebs52 wrote:You could substitute (insert Dem) into the initial post. You need to not be so literal. Juch is trolling with crap from the internet.
No, what the author is saying is calling them stupid is better than calling them criminal or worse.
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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#6 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:32 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:You could substitute (insert Dem) into the initial post. You need to not be so literal. Juch is trolling with crap from the internet.
No, what the author is saying is calling them stupid is better than calling them criminal or worse.
You so cute.
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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#7 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:45 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:For what it's worth, which is probably very little, I don't think all Trump supporters are stupid.

I think some were out of work because of automation and other forces, and they wanted to work, and they thought he would make that happen. For all I know, he has.

I think some were tired of politics as usual, and thought he would shake things up, which he has.

I agree with maybe ten percent of his policies, but there are a lot of topics on which I have no opinion or am neutral.

Every topic isn't either/or.

For the most part, I find him rude, and am not thrilled with how my students from other nations see us now. There is a list as long as my arm of things I don't like about him. But so what? I'd rather spend time electing someone else than yammering about it here.
To quote Skoop, "For what it's worth, which is probably very little, I don't think all Trump supporters are stupid." Very few of them are. A few of them are very smart, also very venal. Unfortunately, a few of those are in a rich white guys club, the U.S. Senate.

Virtually all federal employees hit by the shutdown, including a young friend who's borrowing money to make the mortgage, want to work. That they're not working, Trump made that happen. He said he would be proud to do it.

Offhand, I can't think of a Trump policy I agree with, but I can think of plenty that hurt me and everyone else in the world directly or indirectly. Thanks, Skoop, for indirectly paying me a compliment. I've been spending lots of time the past 3 1/2 years working on things that will elect someone else.

P.S. I used to pooh-pooh Flock's dismissal of the MSM, but not anymore. What I consider to be the most earth-shaking news of this century, the data-driven report about how much in danger the planet is from climate change, hit Trump's desk in November. Trump and his minions promptly dismissed it, and the MSM followed suit! The report said that we are at our last chance if we start now to ameliorate the horrors we've visited on the planet the past centuries. It should be Page One every day! But Trump manages to cause the MSM to ignore it with new distractions every week which are compelling because of how many people they hurt. Wake up, MSM. You can cover both Trump's distractions and the U.S. Climate Change report, plus what we should be doing about it. Come on, MSM. Or is Flock right about you?
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Re: Why do liberals think all Trump supporters are all STUPI

#8 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:14 am

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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