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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 01:10 PM Dec 2017

Those that support Trump

From an article in Progressive Frontier:

"This bill (Tax Bill) will do very little for the majority of his supporters, while giving more money to the 1%. So why do the Deplorables support it so much?

..there are two types who support Trump. You have your traditional Republicans who would vote for an alleged child molester like Roy Moore over a Democrat. And then there are the Deplorables, a group of nihilists who have accepted their fate at the bottom of the social pile, and want to drag everyone else down there with them."


Those that have been beaten up so much by economic and social inequality - brought on by the Republicans - that they have nothing to lose. In other words, Republicans have created their base of nihilists who will continue to vote Republican because they have nothing left to hope for.


https://progressivefrontier.com/commentary/trump-supporters-arent-patriots-theyre-deplorable-and-nihilistic-assholes/

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Those that support Trump (Original Post) packman Dec 2017 OP
I've read that on a number of sites by posters, those deplorables that voted for Trump to destroy RKP5637 Dec 2017 #1

RKP5637

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1. I've read that on a number of sites by posters, those deplorables that voted for Trump to destroy
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 01:22 PM
Dec 2017

America. They were fed up, did not care about the country, and figured WTF, if Trump destroys the country they will be no better or worse since they are at the bottom. ... some said they felt better if the US were torn apart. This stuff gets really freaky when you start digging into it.

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