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Yavin4

(35,443 posts)
Sat May 14, 2016, 12:37 PM May 2016

The people who are supporting Trump is because they want to be Trump.

It's really not his policy positions nor his demonstrated leadership. It's because they want to be him. They want huge homes, trophy wives and children, private jets, TV shows, etc., and they think that voting for him will bring that stuff to them.

Take the Religious Right for example. Some conservative pundits why Evangelical Christians supported a vulgarian like Trump. Have these people ever been to a mega church? Don't they know about Prosperity Gospel?

Since the 1980s, Capitalism has been sold to the American people as an economic system where everyone can get rich. This is why we've seen so many bubbles over this time period. Candidates, from both parties, have preached the Prosperity Gospel, and the results have been deregulation, less taxation, mass speculation, and a widening income inequality gap.

Trump is the aspirational candidate in this election.

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The people who are supporting Trump is because they want to be Trump. (Original Post) Yavin4 May 2016 OP
Well perhaps, but mostly they are white suburban working class voters who have gone through three Warren Stupidity May 2016 #1
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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
1. Well perhaps, but mostly they are white suburban working class voters who have gone through three
Sat May 14, 2016, 12:53 PM
May 2016

decades of a declining standard of living and have been convinced that mexicans, blacks, women, gays, muslims, and now transexual people are the cause of their misfortune.

This is a classic rightwing populist scenario.

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