What The Hell Is Wrong With Donald Trump Supporters?

[FighttheFuture]

8. I think many are disaffected citizens who have been fucked by this system for years.

People who saw, or grew up middle class and have seen that hollowed out by the "free trade" crap, corporations and capital basically out of control, who think their right to exist and rampage around the world for maximum profit supersedes all rights of society and people.

These people see cities like Detroit look like some bombed out Lebanon. People loosing all they worked for with little or no help from the political class. Con-men and bullshit artists, at all ranks, rewarded for destroying infrastructure and destabilizing whole communities and rewarded richly.

So, a big class of his supporters are people who have probably given up voting, but see this guy Trump come along with a message and point out how much their party has failed them, also, and say, Hmmm. Now, these should be ripe for Bernie, and he may have gotten a few of them, but many were already pulled into the R fold by relentless media propaganda, lies and assorted manipulations to their fear, anger, poor education and bigotry.

So, the bottom line I see is people have been aware that they are getting fucked. They may no understand the who, what or why, but they do see the result. You have two candidates who come along who are clearly outside the standard bearers of the two parties and they do better than anyone as expected.

Not surprising at all.