"..to vote for me...privilege" - a theory I've developed about Obama

[underpants]

Trump's comments today about the audience having the privilege to vote for him reminded me of something I've been thinking about recently.

Stepping back a few steps - Why were people so willing to accept negatives about Obama?
Party affiliation? Sure. Racism? Of course. Brainwashing? To some degree.

People love to gripe and moan
This cuts across race or location -urban or rural.
From "the man keeping me down" to "take this job and shove it" there's a constant energy of anger at outside forces. The Army runs on it (trust me). Talk radio was created to give the White guy stuck in traffic or in their car unhappy with their boss/wife/lot in life a target for their rage.


Familiarty
People are familiar with being angry. Their used to it and they don't like it being messed with but they want it how they are used to it.

I used to work with social workers. The smoking area at any work is a World of wisdom and rumor. I used to talk several times a day with social workers who'd seen it all. From counseling Post Office employees (Vietnam Vets) to crisis management (jumpers) to mental health to substance abuse in every setting imaginable between them. There was something I learned that is a truism in the industry especially in substance abuse - its hard to beat the community. This is how things are. People like the familiarity even if it's bad.

One said it straight to me: "Sure they can get out but the people around them give them every chance to fail. Wanna know why? If this person gets out it means that they could have too and they don't want to face that. If no one gets out then they are right and comfortable"

WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!
The racial element of that has been well covered. What did they want back? Basically everyone just got ripped off. Here's come this middle class guy following the bluest of Brahman elite. Unlike Bill "The Boy from Hope" Clinton played up his past against the Elder Bush, Obama didn't (this could have been a measured move by the campaign) instead focusing on the future and avoiding the juxtaposition (though implied) to W. What they wanted back was their familiar place.

Their familiar place was that they couldn't really see ever attaining what Obama had. It was too in their face, the face in the mirror.

[Aristus]

1. That's what I've always believed:

The haters didn't hate Barack Obama in spite of the fact that he did everything racist whites are constantly wagging their fingers at black stereotypes for: he worked hard, studied, established himself in a career starting at the entry level, achieved academic excellence, attained coveted professional titles (Editor of Harvard Law Review, etc.), wrote successful books, became a millionaire, and succeeded in high-level public office.

They hate him because he achieved all those things. It took them out of their squalid little comfort zones...