2016 Postmortem

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts) Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:06 AM Aug 2016

The 6 Steps To Being Brainwashed By Hate Speech At A Trump Rally

[break][break]1 - SHOCK - Trump just yelled the Lady he's running against for president is a BIGOT![break]

2 - CONFUSION - Immediately looking to your side, you know something wholly uncalled for has occurred.[break]

3 - PEER PRESSURE - Looking at the masses of people cheering, you realize this is accepted behavior here.[break]

4 - LOSS OF WILLPOWER - Because you're easily influenced from watching Faux News, you look at another supporter in the VIP seating to see how you should behave at the hateful rhetoric being spewed.[break]

5 - 1ST BABY STEP TO OBEDIENCE - Realizing the VIP seated next to you approves of the language, you try your first attempt at being supportive of the hate that you initially were disturbed by.[break]

6 - CONGRATS, YOU'RE NOW A MINDLESS LEMMING - You stare forward with a bizarre Joker smile, and realize you're on TV and everyone who knows you sees that you've laughed off yet another new low by the All-Time Greatest Self-Deluded Shit-Stirring 'Master of Projection' that the GOP has ever tried to dump on America!

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The 6 Steps To Being Brainwashed By Hate Speech At A Trump Rally (Original Post) Divine Discontent Aug 2016 OP

I take issue with this list True Dough Aug 2016 #1

SNORT! She could have been told there was free Tupperware being given away for standing behind him. Divine Discontent Aug 2016 #2

Excellent! vlyons Aug 2016 #3

That's it! 1 or 2 of these people, primarily the shocked faced ones, Divine Discontent Aug 2016 #8

why anyone would waste the time, energy, and gas money vlyons Aug 2016 #9

Couldn't agree more. Divine Discontent Aug 2016 #10

Brilliant anaylsis. Thank you. n/t Binkie The Clown Aug 2016 #4

Thanks, Binkie! N/T Divine Discontent Aug 2016 #7

You forgot the part where they were schooled into always looking to someone else for an jtuck004 Aug 2016 #5

Right. The brainwashing didn't start the night of the Trump rally. baldguy Aug 2016 #6

This is a well done original piece. Thanks. JaneyVee Aug 2016 #11

Many thanks, JV! I used to do them often on the old DU and this is my first original piece here. Divine Discontent Aug 2016 #12

Never underestimate the power of a crowd. bklyncowgirl Aug 2016 #13

Lying is accepted behavior (R) RapSoDee Aug 2016 #14

True Dough

(17,304 posts)

1. I take issue with this list

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:09 AM

Aug 2016

I feel strongly that if you are attending a Trump rally then you don't have a brain at all.

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)

2. SNORT! She could have been told there was free Tupperware being given away for standing behind him.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:12 AM

Aug 2016

Something's gotta be given to these people to stand there to be associated with THAT!

Maybe it's thorazine...

vlyons

(10,252 posts)

3. Excellent!

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 03:27 AM

Aug 2016

I couldn't help but notice her in the background and thought, even she, a supporter, is shocked by Trump's vulgarity. So now I wonder: do Trump supporters know what a vulgar and vicious liar is Trump, because their parents taught them better? Or are his supporters so corrupt, because they are just corrupt and indifferent about his behavior?

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)

8. That's it! 1 or 2 of these people, primarily the shocked faced ones,

Reply to vlyons (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 12:31 PM

Aug 2016

we're raised better, and for whatever reason find themselves one of the few at a Trump rally (always been a Republican, business pressure, seeking entertainment) who might still not be totally gone when they attend the rally.

Most of the people scream and holler approval at every twisted thought, and there's one or two who think wow that's vulgar, but probably anyone who attends a Trump rally is pretty easily led, so they go through the steps to being a hateful follower!

Her facial expressions were the most shocked of any attendee yet. Maybe there's hope for her out of the thousands of crazies who go to his rallies, and maybe Momma and Poppa taught her better like you questioned.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)

9. why anyone would waste the time, energy, and gas money

Reply to Divine Discontent (Reply #8)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 12:36 PM

Aug 2016

to attend a Trump rally is a mystery to me.

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)

10. Couldn't agree more.

Reply to vlyons (Reply #9)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 12:42 PM

Aug 2016

Do i wanna go to tbe Trump

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

4. Brilliant anaylsis. Thank you. n/t

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 03:32 AM

Aug 2016

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)

7. Thanks, Binkie! N/T

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 12:24 PM

Aug 2016

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

5. You forgot the part where they were schooled into always looking to someone else for an

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 04:34 AM

Aug 2016

an answer, and then spending the rest of their miserable lives doing what they were told.

They didn't just walk into this and get sprayed with bigot juice. They have been like this their whole lives.

Unless the person who recently said "Hearts don't change, not really" is a liar. And I don't think she is.

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

6. Right. The brainwashing didn't start the night of the Trump rally.

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 06:57 AM

Aug 2016

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

11. This is a well done original piece. Thanks.

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:01 PM

Aug 2016

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)

12. Many thanks, JV! I used to do them often on the old DU and this is my first original piece here.

Reply to JaneyVee (Reply #11)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:20 PM

Aug 2016

Your encouragement makes me plan to continue. Thanks and have a fantastic Friday.

bklyncowgirl

(7,960 posts)

13. Never underestimate the power of a crowd.

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:47 PM

Aug 2016

One of my old history professors told me a story about a friend of his who had been captured by the Germans during WWII. He and a group of other prisoners were forced to attend a Hitler rally. Even though he hated everything Hitler stood for and could not understand the words, the reaction of the crowd to Hitlers speech was so mesmerizing that he was swept up in the moment and had to force himself to keep his right arm at his side and not yell sieg heil. Since most people at a Trump rally have at least some sympathy with his ideas your scenario makes sense.

RapSoDee

(421 posts)

14. Lying is accepted behavior (R)

Reply to Divine Discontent (Original post)

Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:57 PM

Aug 2016

The People of the Lie (R).

Laughing off yet another new low.

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