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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt what point do you believe "buyer's remorse" will set in for the AVERAGE Trump voter?
Because I've gotta tell you, what's in the headlines today has not amounted to jack squat. The people I know who voted for Trump still think he's all about the working class and that he's already making America great again (they LOVED the one about how it is "OK" to say "Merry Christmas" again).
What will it take? The end of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and anything else Paul Ryan defines as an "entitlement" program?
Tax cuts that add trillions to the deficit and funnel the majority of money to the 1%ers?
More "Carrier" deals in which taxpayers pay a bribe to keep a portion of a company's jobs in the U.S.?
The lack of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico?
No mass deportations?
No Muslim registry?
At what point will they say "This guy lied to me?"
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)And start to dismantle ther beloved SS and Medicare...Grab em by the p***y!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Dump will grab them by the p***y and squeeze till they scream the fucking idiots!
He has ALREADY sold out every working class fool who voted for him just by all the the wall street, goldman sach whores he appointed into his damn cabinet!
They will strip away every labor law including the minimum wage real soon!
Damn idiots!!!!
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)Deficit and Debt are too abstract
Discrimination is not important to them
Corruption and foreign ties are too abstract
Even layoffs will only affect those who are laid off. or they blame it on all the "regulations".
Maybe Social Security retirement, SS Disability, Medicaid, Medicare, Food stamp cuts get some attention.
But truly, they seem to be members of a cult and might think that anything negative is the result of the cult's opponents, not the cult leader himself.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)That will gradually filter out to even the most ill informed
elleng
(130,153 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)"but you promised!" they will scream.
This is how they will learn he lies about everything.
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)a big wake up for the delusional bigots.
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Everything is President Obama's fault, didn't you know.? Everything was just swell under George W. Bush!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Be prepared to hear about that 24/7, beginning very soon. Within six months, Chuck Todd will be telling us why we're ALL grateful the black President was run out of office by our Orange Savior.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)It was Reagan/Bush's policies that carried over.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)They like Brands! Leaders! Cowboys! God!
They like the idea of an infallible being/entity.
God is responsible for all that is good, moral and just. The fuck-ups? "THA'S MANKIND'S FAWLT!"
It's the same way with how Conservatives treat their heroes. Nothing (even if it blatantly is) can be tied back to them, and they are credited with all that is great. They credit Reagan/Bush Sr. for everything great that happened during Clinton's tenure. The fuck-ups? Clinton. Same with Bush. The media NEVER took him to task despite the country collapsing around him. The fuck-ups were "CLINTON'S CARELESSNESS AND LAX ATTENTION". They even went so far as to blame CARTER for the Housing Crisis . . . a man who had been out of office for nearly 30 years at that point.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Bettie
(15,998 posts)They will listen to their preachers and Fox news and say "Liberals did this" to all of it.
MANative
(4,105 posts)and they will keep getting suckered in with every new distraction he manufactures. The things they want will materialize "next year" and the things that don't have immediate negative personal consequences will be met with disdain for those who lose something important to them. They are gullible, ignorant and easily distracted. They'll love every fucking minute of him. Only the rest of us sane people will be tempted to jump off buildings as we see our institutions crumble around us.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)...it won't get Trump voters off the hook morally. They knew he was a Fascist thug. Just because they'll be upset when they unexpectedly get the wrong end of the Trump stick, doesn't make them good people.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)They will see what they voted for.
The whole world is about to see how buck-naked stupid this jackass is.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Every colossal cock-up and disaster that happens from January 20th onward, in perpetuity, will be layed squarely at the feet of President Obama. This will never be questioned by anyone, and after a few months of the media Wurlitzer playing this bullshit in your ear day in and day out, even you will start to believe it. None of this would have ever happened if Barack Obama had done his fucking job on 9/11/2001.
Island Blue
(5,812 posts)they're being told on FOX. No doubt they receive different news then we do, regardless if their major source is FOX or some where else. I'm not sure they'll ever believe "the truth". When the shit hits the fan it will be blamed on Obama.
RazBerryBeret
(3,075 posts)I saw THIS story on my feed yesterday, I kept reading for a punch line, because I was sure it was a joke... but no and it's only two days old. the headline doesn't even match the story, so crazy.
http://enabon.com/mike-pence-just-insulted-obama-face-honor-vets-mr-president/
independentpiney
(1,510 posts)And deficits don't matter when republicans do it.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)If they were stupid or crass enough to vote for him, they'll defend him to the end.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Not until someone (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity) or something (Fox News) tells them they should have buyer's remorse.
They never seem to realize anything on their own. Not until someone tells them they should be outraged, do they.
They have no long term memory so all of the things promised in the campaign will be forgotten. All is well just as long as it's a republican and their team won.
Luz
(769 posts)Afromania
(2,767 posts)The banks were handing out credit lines/mortgages like it was air and it helped distract these nitwits from what was going on. Once the well dried up and houses being repo'd suddenly they understood what the deal was. It won't be too long until the stale loaves of bread..... ez credit card offers are stuffing our mailboxes again. I wonder what new commodity bubble they'll create to invest the ez credit in to keep the populace placated while the Republicans gut social services and healthcare.
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Not sure if the banks are just preying on people needing cash for the holidays or if they foresee what they will be able to get away with with a Trump admin.
Just like his tweets distracting from real issues, everything with this clan (klan) will be smoke and mirrors till it's too late. Can't say I'll feel sorry for one Trump voter. Just feel bad for the collateral damage of those who knew better.
Afromania
(2,767 posts)I feel like the Fed getting ready to hike interest rates is probably tied to whatever nonsense the banks are going to get into. Somebody more knowledgeable in that area could probably figure out exactly what it all means.
tenderfoot
(8,424 posts)eom
lunasun
(21,646 posts)nclib
(1,013 posts)Because they are a bunch of selfish a-holes who don't give a crap about anyone else.
marybourg
(12,540 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)the truth. He is not going to be able to revive the coal industry since natural gas has replaced coal as fuel. I do not have anything against those who works in the coal industry but we need to focus on retraining and I don't think Trump gives a damn about retraining anyone.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)mooslims, and homosekshools.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)It always someone else's fault with them.
If any of them do get remorse, they will lie and say they voted for Hillary.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,847 posts)... be that it was bankrupt because of Democratic failures of the past. Trump will tell us that he's a smart businessman who realized immediately that "the numbers were really bad" or some such nonsense.
Lots of brainwashed Republicans will accept that notion because they're idiots living in a conservative propaganda bubble.
It won't last forever, though! People don't easily tolerate "worse times" without directing their dissatisfaction at the people in power eventually.
Vogon_Glory
(9,085 posts)I would say some of these people will begin to wise up when the cuts hit home, after the ACA is gutted, after Medicare is savaged, after Social Security is slashed, then a few of the Magoos who voted for Team Trump and the Tepublicans will dimly see the light.
The Trouble is that it will be a $___ train to Hell for the rest of us before they BEGIN to wise up.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)There are plenty of chew toys to keep them occupied while they are robbed blind. Don't forget about feminists, atheists, muslims.....oh, there are more.
Vogon_Glory
(9,085 posts)I think doing in Social Security will dofor a lot of the anti-abortion fanatics. Not directly, of course; they'll still screech about "murdered babies" on the one hand even as they'll cheerfully continue to vote for politicians who constantly vote to close clinics that provide pre- and post-natal care. But one of the contradictions of the anti-abortion movement is that a LOT of their troops are retirees and depend on programs like Social Security and Medicaid to keep body and soul together. And the poor dears are about to receive an on-target "friendly fire" barrage from the Donald and their dear friends in the Republican Party.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)When THEIR uninsured child dies from a treatable illness; when THEIR Social Security and Medicaid are gutted; or, the first time "Dancing With the Stars" or Monday Night Football is interrupted by a "LIVE!" Trump rally/hategasm.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)These ignorant shitheads could drive home, discover a sweaty Trump in their beds pounding away at their wives, and they would high-five the son of a bitch and offer him their children, too. Then they'd Facebook about it all to impress their buddies.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)blue cat
(2,415 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)They've been brainwashed by AM hate radio and Fox News. They don't care that the real enemies of the United States are Vladimir Putin and Alaweed bin Talal. They see Obama and the democrats as the enemy and facts don't matter. They see George Soros as the enemy because he "paid" democrats to protest against Trump immediately after the election (they didn't). They've resorted to bullshit and would rather that we didn't exist. It's truly disgusting.
Amishman
(5,541 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)And they don't care that he committed an act of treason or that Trump is filling his cabinet with corporatists who have ties to Russia, or that the US is turning into a fascist corporate kleptocracy before our eyes. Doesn't matter that Trump appointed a guy who wants to replace workers with machines as his labor secretary, all they see is "Trump American, Obama and democrats anti American."
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)that will go down in flames for him. They will be useful minions for trump and these are the ones we should fear with every ounce of our being.
However, there are some that will have buyers remorse (the ones who believed his promises of jobs and stuff)....and along with that--I hope they lose their health insurance, their homes and everything they hold dear because that is what they voted for for myself and my family and dammit I think they should get what they voted for.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Nobody with a modicum of intelligence voted for the man. Nobody.
Abu Pepe
(637 posts)who will admit they voted for him. Most won' t admit it now. My solid red county had nowhere near the Trump signs in yards as Romney or McCain ones. But Trump won the county by almost an identical margin as those guys.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Let's start with a question: If you were a Carrier employee in Indiana facing a pink slip would you give up your job in solidarity with the others that will have theirs offshored to Mexico?
Like it or not those 1000 workers are probably grateful to Trump and Pence for saving their job and will likely consider voting GOP from now on. This, madames et monsieurs, is what the Dems will be up against over the next 4-8 years.
All Trump has to do is convince companies to keep a few jobs here and the votes will keep coming.
Anecdotally when I talked to a friend in Indiana about the Carrier deal and how it only saved about half the jobs her response was "I don't remember Obama coming down here to try and save those jobs!"
This is the attitude we will have to change before we win back many of those Trump voters.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,304 posts)and when he can't find a new job. The exact date will depend on when he can no longer watch 30-40 year old college football games on his laptop.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)they'll be living in their cars for the rest of their lives and it will be too late to do anything about it.
39% believe the Dow Index went down during the Obama years. These are not people who look out the window.
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)This doesn't seem to be popular around here, but as long as he keeps up with the bigoted rhetoric, as longs as he radically "others" human beings, the bigots that voted for him will support him
briv1016
(1,570 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Government that failed to secure their incomes and then had the nerve to extend "special protections" to women and minorities? It was intolerable. Voting for Trump was a big F-U, requiring a lot of cognitive dissonance to get on board with; they won't give it up anytime soon, and whatever horrors fall on us in the next few years will simply be blamed on Obama and Democrats.
Generator
(7,770 posts)hatrack
(59,442 posts).
mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)They do not ever put themselves in someone else's shoes. It will only be when
the chickens come home to roost that these people will realize their mistake.
Nay
(12,051 posts)things can, and will be, lied about. But if that check doesn't show up in the bank account, THAT will be noticed because you just can't buy food or pay rent with delusional Facebook posts.
HAB911
(8,811 posts)While we are watching every micro move and idiotic tweet, trumpeters are blissfully ignorant of their surroundings.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,586 posts)They are all BELOW AVERAGE.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)I have heard some of their totally ridiculous claims about Hillary that these cretins espouse as the gospel truth and it is beyond absurd.
You call them on it and they go rabid-dog in response, yelling and frothing at the mouth.
Calling them idiots doesn't due justice to their total lack of any critical thinking skills or basic knowledge of the issues.