Oh my God. The whole point is that there are different types of people who vote for Donald Trump.

Yup... I am from Alabama, lived in DC briefly and am now in Colorado. I spent all of primary school and part of my career SURROUNDED by these people - interacting with them on a daily basis both as peer and subordinate.

The OP in this thread doesnt seem to detect his own ridiculous condescension either, and so many of…

Every single time this conversation comes up we’re told we don’t know Trump voters, because it’s assumed we’re coastal elites. People forget that there are liberals living amongst them. They also forget that those coastal cities have a lot of people that move there from somewhere else. I know Trump voters, because I…

Yet when someone who is poor or even blue collar working class, rural or exurban, white, and doesn’t have an above average IQ, all things that end up with them never having had a meaningful chance to develop a reasonably cogent view of the world, does what you would expect someone raised in that environment to do,…

Exactly. I spent a lot of time after the election trying to get Hillary voters to understand that these aren’t bad people, they’re people who never had a chance. Your comparison to kids growing up and joining gangs because they had no other option is spot on, this is the exact same situation except with fewer gun…

Yep. I grew up in rural East Texas, which was Trump country long before anyone knew Trump country was a thing. Same thing. Uneducated people who despise education and who pass that on to their children by example and by the back of their hand.

You’re not wrong at all. I grew up and still live in PA Trump country; these people never had a chance. Lousy education, parents that raised them to not care about education(and taught them that educated people are stupid), no real future other than farming/truck driving/mining for them, etc...

I always chuckle when I read that comic.

Most people here absolutely would.

Yes. Do you expect me to say no?

Is that the same story you’re going to tell the single mom when you berate her for being on WIC & Medicaid?

Cold as it is, they made a choice. They are not a toddler walking around with a knife, they are adults who have the same level of impact on the government as everyone else.

You do realize that one of the big issues that demographic has is that they are misunderstood (as per polling i.e., their words) - and they dont want someone else speaking for them. You claim to know their motivations and all of this other stuff, and yet, unsurprisingly - you cannot KNOW any of that, barring actually…

I am sure that these people would appreciate that you think that
“anything other than vote in an uninformed, tribalistic fashion.” would be implausible. 

Patronizing isn’t the word you’re looking for there. Patronizing would be if I said “aww, honey, you’re adorable”. The word you’re looking for there is “blunt”.

That’s because you’ve got such a simplistic view of Republicans that you can’t imagine that they might have differing motivations for voting for Trump.

It’s hard to take this too seriously since your analogy youth joining a gang - kind of ignores the fact that many Trump voters are college-educated professionals with plenty of perspective and experience. Their ignorance is willful, much like their complete lack of empathy.

If you cannot fathom how awful something is…

Fucking this...

I grew up as one of those brainwashed yokels. Believed the GOP party line, chapter and verse. But if you have any degree of intellectual curiosity you eventually get exposed to outside ideas. I’m not the only one in my hometown social circle who saw the light. Those that remain brainwashed choose to remain brainwashed.