Deplorables: Trump, Brexit and the Demonised Masses

>1 barney67: Haven't checked your youtube, yet, Barn, I just wanted to say I've missed you.

>1 barney67: Okay, saw youtube, first few seconds anyway--it was either turn the volume down or turn the thing off. So I turned it off. As a guy who has qualified as poor for all but 3 to 5 years of my adult life, Barney, I have to tell you that I don't feel much included in a rich man's plans. None of Trump's policies would help me in the least if I still lived there. And Boris? You have got to be kidding me.

Alright, yes: there was some money behind this film's production. Granted.

But, watch it and learn--if you can.

If you watch this film and you end it confused, angry, opposed to the messages contained in it, then you, Sir, or Madam, are "the problem" because you clearly can't learn.

Well, then, you'd better beware because, if you don't step aside, then expect to be steam-rolled, M*****F*****.

> Grandiosity--check. Pretense--check. Obsession--check. Sclerotic thought process--check. Presumptuous--check.

#5--Prox is in one of those mental cycles you know---where you can't take a step back or a deep breath--you just keep shoveling that hole deeper to no end. He will never admit he's wrong on anything. One day he's for Sanders the next day he's for Trump. One day he's for Corbyn the next day he's for Boris. He writes 10000 word essays to explain in detail and nobody's interested mainly because it makes no sense. His ability to reason is twisted and deformed. It's really shocking and pathetic and IMO he's in desperate need of psychiatric help. Even Artaud wasn't as fucked up.

I grew up in rural, small-town America — and I can tell you the real reason why people love Donald Trump (Independent)

When I tried to debunk one old friend's conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton recently, he replied, 'You've forgotten where you came from'...

People especially value the opinions of those who model success in their daily lives. Donald Trump spent years playing a successful businessman in a game show that many of these people watched regularly. To them, he’s practically a hometown success story...

rural Americans {are} looking for out-groups to blame. Like the minorities who live in those thriving urban centers, and have an increasingly equitable share of power in Washington, DC...

a growing body of research has found that support for Trump is fueled almost entirely by hatred of out-groups: In 2016, the strongest predictors of Trump support were bigotry and lack of education...

If you asked rural Americans how they felt about people of any particular minority group, most would pride themselves on having an unassuming, open-minded acceptance. And, for the most part, that is true on a personal level. But, to them, racism is a Klansman in a movie. It isn’t a contemporary power structure, or an implicit bias that gets black teenagers killed. They don’t see that. They can, on the other hand, see themselves struggling. They just very earnestly do not get it...

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In a nutshell, then, trumpies are just the most despicable lowlife type of ignorant asshole - those who have over-sized egos for which there is no rational warrant.

This is old news. trumpies are the deplorables. If they are not defeated next November our nation might then become permanently deplorable as a whole.

If I may quote a famous Russian "What a Country!"

#7--there's a lot of 'people get what they deserve' coming from caucasians even at the lower end of income scales. They can look at the drug problems in inner cities and think just like Nancy Reagan--'Just say no' is all there is to it and that poverty is just all about someone willing or not to get up off their ass (education, opportunity and environment be damned) ......and even if they are struggling economically too. They don't see police brutality or the persecution of minorities. They don't get the arbitrary or disproportionate nature of the courts. If it were up to a lot of white conservatives there would be even more people being put into prison even though the % of the United States prison population is pretty much the highest in the world and that prisons are overpopulated and understaffed and even though there are a lot of people in prison for non-violent crimes that didn't really harm anyone other than themselves if even that. It's a mindset of a good portion of our country that won't acknowledge any degree of culpability--would rather listen to a demagogue like Limbaugh than try to reason out anything. People want to sort out the good from the bad and almost all people begin thinking they're on the side of good but there is gray in everyone.