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Originally Posted by Coup
And those that oversimplify in their thinking that Trump is the problem and not merely a symptom ARE part of the problem. Whether they are willing to admit it to themselves or not. Trump voters should be an ally against someone like Trump but instead, attributable completely to the actions of the left, have converted them into virulent enemies due to their constant attacks on middle american culture.
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lefties will never get it - it's why they still can't understand Brexit. That's not a dig at lefties as such - many of my friends are lefties, and I have zero problem with any of them. The 'problem' as such, is that dare I say it, they (some of them, by no means all) try a bit hard to be *too* intellectual, in every facet of their thinking, and sometimes can't see the wood for the trees.
Carnegie was pretty spot on in his observation that everyone has a need to feel important - not in a 'bow to me' way, but that they have meaning... for too long politics (for sure in the UK, and obviously from what I read online, the US also) has made many feel unimportant. That's the very crux of the problem, the rest (cronyism etc) is merely icing on the shit cake (Hai CS!). Those people are so desperate for change that they'll do anything, even risk Trump over Hillary with immediate possible downsides, because they've had enough. All the 'clever' lefty media and wannabe intellectuals can do is attribute that to racism, sexism, misogyny, and so on. While no doubt that *is* part of it for certain chavs and trailer trash elements, it's to miss the bigger picture in such a way that I can't really grasp.
I may be way way way off the mark in my guess here, but having gone through a 'rock bottom' myself, I can't help feeling that those voters who are more voting against hillary than for trump, feel kinda the same way. Voting for the status quo is akin to keeping a shit site alive, or sending traffic to the same longtime under-performing sponsor, because you are too scared/apathetic to make/see a real change, even if your stats *completely* tank for a while and you have to start from scratch but with a much better outlook ahead once you have made it through any shitstorm. Not a perfect analogy but meh, as always I'm far too lazy
