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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe WORST type of Trump supporter IS NOT the White Nationalist type.
They are mostly suffering from some sort of mental illness due to isolation and poor education.
No, the WORST type of Trump supporter is the one that goes along with Trump's bullshit because they're getting a break on taxes. They know that he's unfit to be a human being, let alone president, but they're saving a few pennies so who cares if migrant children are dying and in cages.
These are people so devoid of humanity and live only for money.
BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)that I don't classify them as anything other than brain-dead.
MLAA
(17,277 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)bermudat
(1,329 posts)The 'dont give a damn as long as my 401K is making money Americans are scary.
spooky3
(34,438 posts)lame54
(35,284 posts)I got mine should replace in god we trust on the dollar bill
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)Aristus
(66,316 posts)WHAT THE F**K IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!? "Shake things up."
The U.S. is not a soap opera that has run out of evil twin story ideas. It doesn't need to be shaken up. It needs to be handled delicately, with care and intelligence.
"Shake things up..."
Stupid assholes...
Calculating
(2,955 posts)I know some people like this. Basically they're sick and tired of it all and just want things to be 'entertaining' at least.
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)revolution that stupid old Susan Sarandon promised if the MF was elected because she deemed HRC "more dangerous".
Raster
(20,998 posts)...was that they were butthurt that a black man was lawfully and legally elected to the highest office in the land, and they could not allow a WOMAN to be elected just the same.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)Waiting in the hospital for a loved one they had a news program on. I was too upset to know what was being said. This was a few months after Traitor Trump took over our country. A guy laughed in the corner of the waiting room, "He's giving them hell," he said. Like I was suppose to agree. I sneered at him. I didn't have the energy to do much more.
But I got to wondering, to whom was Traitor Trump giving hell? Did he think us liberals were getting hell? Did he think just Dems were going to suffer from an idiot in charge?
So, I came to the conclusion the people who voted for Traitor Trump were idiots like him. They have to be or they would realize an idiot would ruin everything for everyone not just ruin things for people he doesn't like. Idiots voting for idiots...Boy we have a lot of idiots in this country...I blame religion.
But then there were the nihilists and traitors who did want everything to come crashing down for everyone. Then add in the racist and Nazis. Now you have the core of Trump's support. Idiots leading the hateful.
Then you have the filthy rich American capitalist kings, the ones we allow to keep our national wealth, and that little man in Russia, Putin. And now you have someone funding and enabling the idiots leading the hateful so they could get more money.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)With all of our social safety nets failing, one needs to look out for their finances. How are people supposed to worry about issues like the migrant crisis or climate change while they're worried about how they're gonna retire, or how they'll pay for a car repair? Until income inequality is addressed we'll always have this 'economic anxiety' driving people to vote for whoever will help them financially.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)dalton99a
(81,444 posts)The white trash don't have a pot to piss in
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)lower taxes, or gun "rights", or pro-fetus, or anti-immigration or a general hatred of government or whatever single issue upon which they place all their loyalty and Trump covers all those bases.
the_sly_pig
(741 posts)Enablers, traitors. Knowingly sacrificing the country for personal gain. No morals, no compassion, no empathy. Pure greed. Is civil war out of the question? I think not.
TryLogic
(1,722 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)white supremacy in this country is a very real problem and impediment to justice and peace.
Yavin4
(35,433 posts)went along with their immorality and cruelty because their lives improved economically.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)as long as they weren't threatened. but a lot of germans also adored hitler and hated the other.
stopdiggin
(11,295 posts)that's a dangerous fallacy (and probably too forgiving to it's practitioners). Being a vicious, racist, xenophobic thug has little to do with mental illness. Did Germany suddenly develop a mental illness in the 1930s?
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)People commit atrocities because of dogma and propaganda much more often than they do so because of illness.
In the individual, trying to analyze the source of evil is confusing and tangled and baffling, but in groups it becomes clear: people turn vicious and evil because somebody persuaded them to.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)i don't even believe it. if they're ignorant it's willful. but i think the country is sick, and it is mental. Germany was a sick country too.
it's not the same as saying we should have pity on white supremacists.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)face the reality of their loserdom. Their orange savior told them to blame non-whites for their failures. He also promised the religious bigots that he'd end abortions and told his 1% cronies he'd give them a YUGE tax cut. Then came Wikileaks and Putin casting just enough votes in three rust belt states to put Twitler over the top in the Electoral Pre-School.
PaulRevere08
(449 posts)It's not like the good old days where you make a few bribes, win the oil contract and off you go. They are destroying the planet and hastening a global catastrophe that will kills millions all for a few extra bucks.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,410 posts)hypocrisy knows no bounds.
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)+1000
zentrum
(9,865 posts)paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)They'll never elect liberals because, taxes. And Jesus. But mostly taxes. Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't a thing but Liberal Derangement Syndrome definitely is.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)While they wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of The Bully, they also believe the kid getting the snot knocked out of him probably deserved it.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)If Trump kicks our asses they get much pleasure out of it.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)These Trump supporters are just as greedy and sociopathic as Trump himself.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)because as much as we despise those kiss-up for profit people they dont hold a candle to the ones who allow crimes against humanity singling out a group of people just to drum up political support.
Those are the worst kind of human beings. They prove Hanna Arendt right in her book, The Banality of Evil. At this point, after two years, the dregs that still support Trump would be like those Germans who did the dirty work in rounding up and murdering Jews for Hitler. Those are the people who still love Trump. It would be a mistake to pity them because they wouldnt pity us.
Yavin4
(35,433 posts)politically for their own personal interests that the real problem. The extremists alone cannot get anyone elected to federal office. They need allies.
The folks that know better are willing to be those allies because doing so serves their narrow, personal interests.
JI7
(89,246 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)"deplorable"
benfranklin1776
(6,443 posts)...but many of them call themselves Christian. 🤬
Skittles
(153,147 posts)unless you, like him, you are RACIST
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Ahpook
(2,749 posts)I get stymied by it! Shocked..
Seemingly nice people that I have known for years get turned inside out and go on about how its ok that children are locked up away from their parents.
This is very upsetting!
patphil
(6,169 posts)Trump's base is a collection of mindless f**kers who will vote for him no matter what.
It's the ones in the middle who deliberately choose to vote for Trump, even though they know he's a terrible person, that are really at fault here.
I have relatives who willingly trade the future of the nation for a few dollars more in their pockets, even though they are already well off...better than most.
And yet, they think they're good people.
Patrick Phillips
DFW
(54,341 posts)Undocumented Trump-loving Hispanics who get deported, or Trump-loving family members of same who watch ICE tear their families apart, saying, "but, but, but, I never thought he meant ME/MY FAMILY!!"
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)The worst type goes along with him because of the R behind his name. I want to puke on them and their fake fucking Patriotism.
samplegirl
(11,476 posts)Most people knew Donald trumps bankruptcies, draft deferments, and the number of divorces he had and they still voted for the moron!
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)I think the worst type of Trump supporter is anyone who intends to vote for him in 2020. These people are all in the same stew together, equally repulsive and distasteful.
Any supporter of Trump is a supporter of him as the chosen one, and of all that that means: the barbaric treatment of desperate people (including, and maybe especially, their children), the devastation of the planet -- it's ecological systems, its heretofore sacrosanct natural wonders, its air and water -- the subordination of national integrity and agency to a foreign power, the fraternizing and "love" relationship with dictators and tyrants, the destruction of a regulatory system intended to protect citizens from harm and exploitation by greed-hungry corporate entities, the signature divisiveness Trump and his party have fomented causing a fragmentation of national identity and aspirations ---- I could go on.
But that's just the point: if you vote for Hitler, everything Hitler does is on you. Same same Trump. Period.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)There is no possible excuse at this point.
Danmel
(4,913 posts)I can disagree vehemently with social issues voters, but at least they actually believe their positions, no matter how misguided they may be.
People willing to let the vulnerable suffer, to marginalize minorities and women, to target the immigrant, to destroy our environment for more money that they don't need are just despicable
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)I know some that are not in either camp. They wanted someone to "shake up" Washington.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)They are your neighbors. When you are out in a public setting, look out and count 10 people. 4 of them support this idiot.
They stay quiet. They neither speak out against nor for.
They are ugly people whose insides are nothing but ashes.