The "alt-right," white supremacist crowd? Lost cause. And the reason for that a Democrat will never hire a guy like Steve Bannon to be front-and-center in their administration, so they will never vote for a Democrat, because they will never hear the "Make America White Again" dog whistle a guy like Bannon sends out.
The seniors?
I'm not a senior yet, but I'm also not a kid, and I know first-hand that a degree of stubbornness comes with age and knowing that you're "right." Some seniors are going to be shocked at what Trump has been doing all along, right under their noses, while they chose to believe the opposite. That segment of seniors is going to be sitting in the middle of the ocean, drowning, and begging for a life raft. They may never equate that to Trump being Trump. They may say that people like Paul Ryan and the people Trump is filling his Cabinet with "wouldn't let him do his job." But you will have a few different kinds of seniors reacting to this.
"Some" seniors actually are filthy rich. They won't care, because even though they may take a hit in some areas, and that will be offset by President Trump making America great again by promising to keep all of his other promises that were never promises to begin with.
"Some" seniors will get badly hurt by this and will still potentially blame everyone but Trump.
"Some" seniors will know the cost of their vote and will be open to shifting the balance of power back to Democrats.
I'm not a fan of profiling on DU, so for me, "what's going on" on this site is a matter of what I contribute and my interactions with others.
Since the Primaries, I have posted well beyond a shitload of articles about people like Paul Ryan, positioning themselves to do exactly what they are doing right now, and most of those posts were met with hardly any response at all. That's OK, I kept posting, because it was factual information and it was important.
Now we are seeing daily posts on Trump, Ryan, Trump's Cabinet picks, and what is on the horizon for tax cuts, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
Part of me asks "Where the hell were you folks six months ago when I was posting this stuff and you had nothing to say about it?
But it doesn't matter to me, because now it seems like it is all slowly sinking in, and as a result, whatever effort put into posts that no one read is worth it, because they are reading them now.
I can't...and won't...speak for anyone else here.
I saw all of this shit coming months ago. It's not because I am gifted or smarter or more insightful than anyone else.
I saw it, I posted it, and now more people are seeing it and posting it.
That's why, when making the choice between trying to reason with Trump voters or simply saying "Fuck 'em, they did this to themselves, hope they enjoy it," we have the choice of seeing it as black and white or as all of the shades of grey in between.
And I only want to "understand" them to the point where they cop to "I fucked UP." If they can't or won't see that, even in light of what Trump is doing before he takes office, I have no time for them.
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