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What Drives The Trump Haters
- Thread starter Shadow Link
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Wow! What an extreme right wing anecdotal paranoid conspiracy filled trash.
=== Note: This is the Conservative Only forum. ===
Shadow Link
Active Member
Did you even read the whole thing? What is so paranoid about his Synopsis?
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Due to RF rules, you can't get an answer to these questions in the Conservative Only forum.
Tom
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Let me save people some time; the link leads to an rambling, meandering essay that amounts to little more than a stack of lazy straw men.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Ah, I can see why such a weak article was posted here; to protect it from swift refutation.
Aren't there some conservatives who hate Trump?
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Sure, but the article focuses on caricaturations of the left.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
As a self-identified conservative even I was not particularly impressed with the article. The deep hatred for Trump and the right goes way beyond mere "political correctness". In theory, when Saint Hillary uttered her infamous thoughts on the "deplorables", it is now obvious that she wasn't meaning Trump supporters, but rather the 42% of eligible voters who sat the election out, as well as women who did not vote for her. (I'm kidding, btw.)
The reality is, however, it wasn't the people who voted for Trump or disaffected Bernie supporters. It was even the people who voted for Gary what's his name or Jill Stien. What cost our beloved Saint Hillary the election was her failure to get out the vote in what should have been a slam dunk election.
I think much of the hatred towards Trump is based on this unconscious realization that not enough people were convinced that Hillary was the best choice to make the difference. For example, she is a not a great speaker and I think her scripted and robotic performances on the election trail simply did not translate into real votes.
Yes, she got more votes than Trump, but that is hardly something to brag about considering how highly she was billed as being the most qualified person ever to run while having turned in mediocre performances in virtually any public role she committed herself to. So while she had a number of public, high profile positions, she just wasn't very memorable in any of them. Yet, this queen of mediocrity, who was definitely running on the Clinton brand name, was the best choice.
On top of this reality, we have Trump, who is a polarizing personality, at best, and if you listen to his army of detractors they get quite a bit more hysterical in their adjective use. Rather than simply bombastic, mercurial, Trump is seen as the horrid candidate that has shocked them to their senses. The initial response to Trump's election was not, "What did we do wrong? What was wrong with our message that it failed to resonate with the majority of ELIGIBLE voters?" No, their response, almost in lockstep, was that the message was fine and all that was needed was to ratchet up volume several decibels. Like the endless impeachment drivel, this is not a winner strategy. Especially with the DNC practically broke.
Another fine point is how the right was often charged with trying to buy the election with billionaire donors, like the dreaded deplorable kings, the Koch brothers, flooding the minds of voters with fake whateverisms and then when the dust settled it was not Trump that spent the most money. Low and behold, it was the Democrats that spent FAR more money than Trump. So who was really trying to buy the election with their mediocre candidate?
I think the hatred for Trump is based in the unconscious recognition that the Anti-Trump narrative was simply not compelling enough to the real majority of eligible voters. Of course, Trump, being the personality he is, certainly loves poking his detractors in the eyes with a rather big stick... and Twitter... *sigh*
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Off the top....
An incredible Entitlement mentality and the belief that government should be your daddy and should take care of and control just about every aspect of a person's life.
Hate is not a word in the Lord’s vocabulary but detest, deplore, disdain and repulsive are.
And trump fits them all. It is as if these words were created just to describe this one big, very big looser.
And trump fits them all. It is as if these words were created just to describe this one big, very big looser.
Actually, politically I grew up in a Conservative 'moderate' Republican family, and remain a strong physical conservative. I like many 'moderate' conservatives have a real problem weaving a political path between extremes without wearing hip waders with suspenders.
I hope being Conservative is not associated with Donald Trump and the extremism of the far right political storm troopers.
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Shadow Link
Active Member
Looks like you might have a failure to redress a genuine grievance here.
The terms Truth and logic used in context to politics seems confused some how.
Clearly this is republican logic because it's right.
And clearly this is democrat logic because obviously it's left.
We go back and forth based on logic and truth.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
See, this is the sort of goofy, stereotypical straw man that I'm talking about. It tries to suggest that people's disdain for Trump couldn't possibly have anything to do with his incompetence and dishonesty, lack of character and integrity, misconduct and unethical behavior, etc.
Okay mods, you can slap the cuffs on and take me away now.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Personally I never gave a damn about Hillary and thought that Trump was a sleazy, douchey buffoon long before I ever had any inkling of his political affiliation.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
No because it's the truth. Lefty's always rage on about Trump's personality but very little about his governmental policy which I'm thinking is on the right track.See, this is the sort of goofy, stereotypical straw man that I'm talking about. It tries to suggest that people's disdain for Trump couldn't possibly have anything to do with his incompetence and dishonesty, lack of character and integrity, misconduct and unethical behavior, etc.
Okay mods, you can slap the cuffs on and take me away now.
All the lefties can keep looking 180 in the opposite direction while the Republicans address and handle the considerable amount of damage that the Democrats have done to this country.