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In reply to the discussion: One of the many disturbing things about tRump supporters is... [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Liberals, city slickers and most hated of all minorities and gays.
I know for a fact. I am a middle age white guy who drives a truck, has a boat, owns guns, hunt, fish and sometime wear boots. Oh, and I live in the south.
I am surprised the number of times in bars(when the wife works late I tend to eat in the bar section of restaurants...I do not hang out in real bars) someone in my 'group' automatically assumes I voted for Trump. I usually keep quite until they piss me off so much I quietly tip my hand. That is usually about the time they say something like, "yeah, Trump is not doing just what he said, but he really pissing of the liberals and blacks." By no means verbatim but you get the gist.
That's when I tell them I am a Social Democrat and became one after spending months in Europe and having it shown to me that the Republican Party fed me a line of shit for 30 years and that in many ways the Europeans live just as happy and more secure lives than most Americans. Every time I have said something like that they are speechless and look like a pole-axed cow. Wish I could have it on film. And then they always back off fast with a weak attempt at a Parthian shot.
Yeah, they hate us more than they like themselves.