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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHOW can a woman vote for Trump?
I wondered about that during the first run - the "grabbing" - the "money-to-be-quiet" - the porn star while wife #3 is in hospital with new child - and I just could not understand it!
Here's a comment from one DU'er's wife - and it makes SO much sense:
"My wife describes women who vote Republican as chickens who would vote for Colonel Sanders.'
So, how else can anybody explain why ANY WOMAN would vote for him?
hlthe2b
(102,361 posts)a Trump-loving male figure in their life?
It still happens--all too often.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Yeehah
(4,594 posts)Stupidity
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Does not automatically mean a person is smart, nonpartisan or caring.
Exhibit A: Margaret Thatcher
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)critical thinking skills.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)O-M-G, doesn't that open up yet another thread!?!?!
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,435 posts)White women will often look for ways to align themselves with power at the expense of others, and upholding the white supremacy -- which rewards white women who act right -- by voting Republican is a way to do so.
GoCubsGo
(32,093 posts)He's hurting somebody else, and not them. Meanwhile, he feeds into their hatred toward black and brown people, Muslims, liberals, gays, poor people, or whoever else is the subject of their contempt. As long as he bashes the people they hate, they'll look the other way when it comes to the misogyny and adultery.
question everything
(47,535 posts)That their role in life is to serve at the men's pleasure.
And, of course, many of the Evangelicals are just glad that he has nominated the "right" judges and are hoping that his Supreme Court would reverse Roe v. Wade and the marriage equality.
Perhaps even nullify the Civil Rights Act.
Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Should be fun conversations.
I know some- right-to-life based. Others because of economy. Some just didnt like Hillary et. Al.
Lots of reasons, I guess.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)A couple are very angry women-- just temperamentally. Trump stokes their anger and makes them feel justified that they regard everyone else hostilely.
One does whatever her husband does.
Another thought he'd be good for the stock market, and that was all she cared about... (except when Obama was president and doubled the Dow, she thought he was terrible for the economy). She told me last week, though, that she couldn't stand to vote for Trump again because he was just such a terrible person. (Coincidentally, perhaps, the market is down.)
None of them seem to have much interest in the actual results of what he does. They don't see the country in shambles.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I never asked why. I was so astonished when I learned this.
Polybius
(15,481 posts)It's odd because those four were far less racist. I know a chef who's black that voted for Trump after voting for Obama twice.
crazyboy44
(27 posts)WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE!!!
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)including the ability to be an asshole, or stupid.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Morally? I just can't see how. Physically it's possible if the guy is on the ballot. But otherwise? To even justify voting for the lifeform? It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
Anyone who votes Republican is a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,416 posts)qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)They think he's sexy.
They are enthralled by his wealth and power.
They think he's funny.
Infidelity doesn't bother them - they expect it.
They are groupies, and groupies know that the guy they want to sleep with has already slept with 1000's of other women.
They agree with his racism.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)I'm sorry I asked........
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Take one for the team...
Then let's see how fast the police are called.
JI7
(89,269 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)jalan48
(13,885 posts)crazyboy44
(27 posts)I know a Mexican lady who is a Trump supporter and is gonna vote Trump this year after she defended Trump criticizing Obama in 2018!! She even calls herself "Mexican Racist"!! She makes me want to puke!!
Raine
(30,540 posts)as men to make a mistake in how they vote ... their vote, their choice, their mistake.