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Aristus

(66,377 posts) Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:57 PM Oct 2016

Assholes support Trump. We all know that. What I don't understand are the decent people who do.

My beloved 3rd Grade teacher, with whom I still stay in contact after 40 years, is a Trump supporter. In any other respect, you would not meet a more decent, kind, loving, generous woman in your life.

But when it comes to Trump, she thinks he's some kind of godsend. She's in her late 60's or early 70's; far too young to be suffering from advanced dementia; certainly not when all her other cognitive faculties seem to be at 100%.

I loved her dearly when I was in 3rd Grade. And I still have a great deal of affection for her. I just can't figure out this one aberration in her personality. She's from Kentucky. But hell, one of the nurse practitioners I work with is from Kentucky, and she's as liberal as I am.

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Assholes support Trump. We all know that. What I don't understand are the decent people who do. (Original Post) Aristus Oct 2016 OP

Did you see the Seattle Times endorsement? I'm sending it to a couple acquaintances who are support uppityperson Oct 2016 #1

Some are star struck and believe he's the guy he pretended to be on TV Warpy Oct 2016 #2

Many others just really, really, really loathe Hillary Clinton. EL34x4 Oct 2016 #3

Yes,so many folks go thru life Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #6

Doesn't make it any less real. EL34x4 Oct 2016 #12

After reading tons of background Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #15

Maybe they are assholes too and we were just giving them the benefit of doubt. FSogol Oct 2016 #4

Fetus worshippers Freddie Oct 2016 #5

You're assuming they're decent. Glassunion Oct 2016 #7

I would never in my life vote for a Republican melman Oct 2016 #8

This shows me things are going to DRASTICALLY change when these folks start dying off. Missn-Hitch Oct 2016 #9

+1 LiberalLoner Oct 2016 #11

Fox News viewers. Initech Oct 2016 #10

Nationalism and racial bias, plain and simple. ronnie624 Oct 2016 #13

If they support Trump cagefreesoylentgreen Oct 2016 #14

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

1. Did you see the Seattle Times endorsement? I'm sending it to a couple acquaintances who are support

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:01 PM

Oct 2016

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/the-times-recommends-hillary-clinton-the-only-choice-for-president/

HILLARY Clinton is a magnificent choice — for some voters. For everyone else, there is no reasonable alternative. We’re all tired of election hyperbole, but the importance to America’s future of this year’s presidential election cannot be overstated.

Both candidates are flawed. But one of them, Republican nominee Donald Trump, poses an enormous risk to America’s prosperity, security and stability.

Clinton, the Democrats’ nominee, clearly has the experience, knowledge and temperament needed to maintain and improve America’s standing at home and abroad.

Yes, we need more outsiders and candor in politics. That does not justify electing an unqualified candidate whose policies and behavior contradict the values of most Washingtonians and Americans, Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals.....

Warpy

(111,261 posts)

2. Some are star struck and believe he's the guy he pretended to be on TV

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:12 PM

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He's not.

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)

3. Many others just really, really, really loathe Hillary Clinton.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:15 PM

Oct 2016

People here forget this sometimes.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

6. Yes,so many folks go thru life

Reply to EL34x4 (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:24 PM

Oct 2016

with blind hatred of someone based on a false premise. This is what Hillary's has faced from the Right Wing Media since the eighties.

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)

12. Doesn't make it any less real.

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:44 PM

Oct 2016

A handicap that was hashed out during the primaries.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

15. After reading tons of background

Reply to EL34x4 (Reply #12)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:30 PM

Oct 2016

on the who what and where of the Clinton Hate Machine. How one Law firm and Mellon Family Money created this Cottage Industry is amazing. The L A Times is the only Media Group to do a truly comprehensive report answering the who what and where lately. And one of these Lawyers is a Consultant to the Con Job as well as his Spouse being his Campaign Manager. And people wonder where all these hate pieces are coming from,well it is right there in plain site.

FSogol

(45,486 posts)

4. Maybe they are assholes too and we were just giving them the benefit of doubt.

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:16 PM

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Freddie

(9,266 posts)

5. Fetus worshippers

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:18 PM

Oct 2016

Trump will appoint pro-life judges and that's ALL some people care about.

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

7. You're assuming they're decent.

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:27 PM

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melman

(7,681 posts)

8. I would never in my life vote for a Republican

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:27 PM

Oct 2016

I don't care who the fuck they run. It's never going to happen.

I suspect there are a lot of people on the other side that think like that too.

Missn-Hitch

(1,383 posts)

9. This shows me things are going to DRASTICALLY change when these folks start dying off.

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:30 PM

Oct 2016

My brothers are Trump supporters (same age as your teacher) and they too are from Kentucky. It's generational. All of these gays, abortion, terrorists....they are afraid. Plain and simple. Liberals, Democrats, Progressives are caricatures of what is bad or evil in this world. And Jesus.

Is your 3rd grade teacher a pious person?

LiberalLoner

(9,761 posts)

11. +1

Reply to Missn-Hitch (Reply #9)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:39 PM

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Initech

(100,076 posts)

10. Fox News viewers.

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:33 PM

Oct 2016

ronnie624

(5,764 posts)

13. Nationalism and racial bias, plain and simple.

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:47 PM

Oct 2016

Subconsciously or otherwise, people seem to be attracted to his jingoist rhetoric. It was during the time of his disgusting comments about Latinos and Muslims, that his popularity seemed to soar. Almost all of the 'nice' Trump supporters I know, cite illegal immigration as their most pressing concern.

cagefreesoylentgreen

(838 posts)

14. If they support Trump

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:58 PM

Oct 2016

Can they be decent people? No, no, and no.

Even before the pussygate tape, support of Trump demonstrated to me everything I needed to know about that person.

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