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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:07 PM Oct 2019

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Understanding the psychology of the Trump supporters

It happened that a fire started backstage in a theater. The clown came out to warn the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they laughed still more. This is the way, I think, that the world will be destroyed — amid the universal hilarity of the wits and wags who regard it all as a joke

Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843)

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Understanding the psychology of the Trump supporters (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2019 OP

Exactly!!! His supporters walk the plank laughing and cheering all the way thinking it's fun and RKP5637 Oct 2019 #1

We destroyed the world Cirque du So-What Oct 2019 #2

If Trump is the fire customerserviceguy Oct 2019 #3

I don't want to understand tRUMP supporters. I want to make them cry. abqtommy Oct 2019 #4

I want them wake the f up, cry, then seek revenge on the man who hoodwinked them. Claritie Pixie Oct 2019 #6

How you can live Corgigal Oct 2019 #5

Revenge of the flunkies. n/t moondust Oct 2019 #7

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

1. Exactly!!! His supporters walk the plank laughing and cheering all the way thinking it's fun and

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:13 PM

Oct 2019

a joke!

Cirque du So-What

(25,941 posts)

2. We destroyed the world

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:23 PM

Oct 2019

but those libs sure were triggered.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

3. If Trump is the fire

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:29 PM

Oct 2019

then who's the clown?

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

4. I don't want to understand tRUMP supporters. I want to make them cry.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 06:34 PM

Oct 2019

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

6. I want them wake the f up, cry, then seek revenge on the man who hoodwinked them.

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 06:41 PM

Oct 2019

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)

5. How you can live

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 06:35 PM

Oct 2019

in today’s world, as an adult without actual facts to make decisions is beyond me.

moondust

(19,993 posts)

7. Revenge of the flunkies. n/t

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 07:14 PM

Oct 2019

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