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luvMIdog

(2,533 posts) Mon Feb 27, 2017, 02:13 PM Feb 2017

I just do not get it- why would any minority person back Trump or be a Republican at this time? [View all]

It boggles my mind why anyone who is not a racist white person would want to back Donald Trump or the Republican party at this time in history. Why do they not understand that if these people are successful in building their white supremacist regime that they themselves will later be discarded and living among the lower echelon in society? Why would one back people that despise them? Do they not know that racist despise them? I just do not get it. Why are they doing this? Can someone please explain it to me? People like Rubio and Ben Carson just freak me out. My brain is screaming ' Do you not know the people you run with think you are beneath them?'

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I just do not get it- why would any minority person back Trump or be a Republican at this time? [View all] luvMIdog Feb 2017 OP

This guy would nycbos Feb 2017 #1

Anybody can be an ignorant bigot. LonePirate Feb 2017 #2

Stockholm syndrome, false hopes dalton99a Feb 2017 #3

And women for god's sake. nt Laffy Kat Feb 2017 #4

I know a few Asian Trump supporters Ajji11 Feb 2017 #5

Ditto to any LGBT who voted for this shitshow. And I know a few... CurtEastPoint Feb 2017 #6

Some Transgender women were profiled showing up at CPAC last week Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2017 #16

I agree PJMcK Feb 2017 #7

GOP voter suppression laws target minorities. oasis Feb 2017 #8

Some people are self-haters, I believe and just like everyone else to suffer. nikibatts Feb 2017 #9

fascists gain power by dividing the population against itself 0rganism Feb 2017 #10

Because they think they are white? And that it wouldn't happen to them? AgadorSparticus Feb 2017 #11

why do people freak out at the few minorities who vote for trump, while ignoring most of the La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #12

I think because the white supremacists are trying to be self serving luvMIdog Feb 2017 #13

yes, but the very very few black and brown people who vote for the GOP La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #14

I was curious. I don't think it's silly to be curious or ask questions that's how you get answers luvMIdog Feb 2017 #15

well its not like this question has not been asked a 1000 times before or anything La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #17

I have not been here that long and I did not see this question asked before luvMIdog Feb 2017 #18

Self loathing. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 #19

Or any middle class or poor white person. jack69 Feb 2017 #20

Believe it or not, there were a small cadre of nationalist (German) Jews who KingCharlemagne Feb 2017 #21

At least half of all minorities are conservative, that's why. Hortensis Feb 2017 #22

Thank you for your responses luvMIdog Feb 2017 #23

Trump attracts opportunists, con men, self-promoters and panderers, all in it for the money and fame MrScorpio Mar 2017 #24

Yup you got it. All the bottomfeeders are scurrying for their scraps Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #29

There are alot of people who agree with the idea of lower taxes, less government spending frankieallen Mar 2017 #25

exact-a-mundo Softail1 Mar 2017 #26

I worked as a sub in a special needs classroom last year in San Francisco kimbutgar Mar 2017 #27

He said he wants to simplify the tax code... scscholar Mar 2017 #28

'The GOP is for the rich and will make you rich' C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #30

I can't understand how anyone could vote for him. But, yeah, I do find myself even more mystified Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2017 #31