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NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
1. all Trump supporters live with irrational fear
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 10:55 AM
Feb 2017

Tragedy is that they don't even know what they are supposed to be afraid of...so many lemmings.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
2. Their views will never change because CNN has made them a small club that can stay in touch with
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:00 AM
Feb 2017

each other between interviews. They will keep each other pumped up between CNN interviews.

Docreed2003

(16,863 posts)
4. I live amongst people like this here in TN...
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:12 AM
Feb 2017

Most of the women who are Trump supporters attend evangelical churches that for the better part of 30+ years have been indoctrinating people into the mindset that the GOP is God's party and the Dems are baby killing socialists. They have zero concept of what the actual agenda of the GOP is, they have no understanding for why millions of women would want to take to the streets to oppose Trump, and they will twist themselves into pretzels to support him, even in the most dispicable ways...see how they totally excused and ignored the p*ssy grabbing video. It's not just women, they just happen to be sucked into this same indoctrinated world view. But women are particularly susceptible in this environment because they are taught from the time they are children that women should submit to men. But all of these evangelicals truly believe that the best hope for this nation is to "turn back to God" and they readily use Old Testament scripture to justify that position by mentally substituting America for Israel. They have been brought up to believe that not only is this a "Christian Nation" but God's chosen nation. All of that sounds ludicrous to anyone who hasn't lived within and experienced this first hand. Mix into this a lack of any real substantial education on how this country was founded and the reasons behind the ideals of "religious liberty" that the founders fought for vigorously, and you have a mailable, uneducated populace across a broad swath of the country who will excuse and support any and every GOP candidate, including Donald Trump...no matter how appalling and anti-Christian they might be!

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
6. None of these nitwits actually talked specifically aboiut any actions or position in any detail..
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:17 AM
Feb 2017

Just blathering generalities-- "I am mom of 4 and I want my children safe" blah blah blah....

Dumb ignorant fuck.. Are your children going to grow up as stupid as you? God, I hope not...

Docreed2003

(16,863 posts)
7. It's because they have no clue about what Trump really stands for
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:34 AM
Feb 2017

Their ignorance is largely due to their church indoctrination.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
12. If they are like the ones here in Missouri
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 12:43 PM
Feb 2017

they also aren't very educated. If they went to college it was to a Christian College. And they gave been brainwashed their whole life. Washed on the blood.

yardwork

(61,650 posts)
14. Unfortunately, they think those ARE the most important issues.
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 12:52 PM
Feb 2017

Their world view is very different from ours. They have been taught that being a submissive wife and "good" mother is their only appropriate role.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
5. How in the world do adults live their lives being so fucking stupid?
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:15 AM
Feb 2017

You know.. one of my dental hygienists is just like them..blah blah blah.. talks about nothing,,about 1/4" deep.... constantly..

I finally told my dentist I wanted to have a different one.. BIG office.. good dentists but I am SURE they are both trump supporters... but at east they keep their mouths shut. father and son





CrawlingChaos

(1,893 posts)
9. God I loath them
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:37 AM
Feb 2017

I can't even begin to describe the hostility I feel toward them. They have destroyed our future. I don't even want to be on the same planet with them, let alone the same country.

I wish the interviewer had asked a good many more pointed questions so we could see how they squirm and strain to make excuses for the orange man-baby. Those questions were softballs.

I'd love to tell them that their sheer awfulness inspires me to resist even MORE.

Takket

(21,578 posts)
10. it must be a horrible thing
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 11:47 AM
Feb 2017

to be huddled in the corner of your basement with a TV with fox news on, curled up i the fetal position and your arms and legs wrapped around the barrel of a shot gun. completely terrified of the world around you can convinced only the GOP can stop the Muslims from bursting into your home and depreciating you.

I pity these people for the terror and cowardice that controls their lives.

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