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Anonymous
| lots of dumb people |
Anonymous
Not in enough numbers to tilt the election. The only group which voted in enough numbers to change the course of election is white women. |
Anonymous
People lik you |
Anonymous
| I blame the schools in this country. Unless someone has the means to send their kids to a decent public school, they are SOL. |
Anonymous
Not a single thing but the idea there is - a Republican lowers taxes which gives more money in their pocket. He could even bring jobs back in their eyes whereas Hillary was more focused on educated, well-heeled donors than the blue-collar populace in small towns and coal country. I don't think they were at all rational about Trump, but if you're dying and someone is offering a lifeline, you jump for the lifeline. Her soundbites came down to raising taxes, keeping Obamacare, protecting disadvantaged groups (everything from gay rights to equal pay), and spending more money (on things like eliminating in-state tuition). His soundbites came down to jobs, build the wall, get rid of the immigrants, jobs, and social hate. They picked the person who promised their husbands' jobs, not the person who guaranteed they would get paid equally for work at a job they don't have or who could increase the minimum wage (possibly killing the few jobs left in their area). |
Anonymous
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OP, you are sexist and racist and, worse of all, a totalitarian.
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Anonymous
I think it's because more than 50% of white women voted for Trump, where as the % of minority women voters who voted for Trump was very small. But, I suppose the reason why minority women voted for Trump are somewhat similar reasons why white women voted for Trump. I'm assuming here because as an Asian woman, I did not vote for Trump. |
Anonymous
I think this is close to the truth. Plus I suspect that a lot of these women just voted the way their husbands did. Some were undoubtedly afraid not to. There is still no excuse for not becoming informed enough to realize that Trump is all smoke and mirrors. That's what really bothers me - the almost willful ignorance of a lot of these people. |
Anonymous
HRC did not want to raise taxes for the people that is referenced in those articles -- rural poor. Quite the opposite. She wanted to raise taxes for the very wealthy. Plus, she wanted to invest more in training programs, which would've helped the poor. And ACA also helps the rural poor since they would get huge subsidies. IMO, the rural poor voted against their interests. If they only voted for Trump because of the promise to bring back manufacturing jobs, well, I got a bridge to sell them. The only other thing I can think of as a reason for why they voted for Trump is xenophobia and/or racism. |
Anonymous
This excuse makes no sense to me. Obvioiusly, people who voted for him didn't hate him. If they did, then no matter what the liberals did or said, they still wouldn't have voted for him, right? Why would anyone vote for someone they hated despite what the other side did or said? |
Anonymous
I know that, you know that, but they didn't. As for ACA and training programs, again limited short-term thinking. We're already seeing stories of people afraid they're loosing health benefits, medicare etc in rural communities. Guess they didn't realize how much they relied on it until it was leaving. |
Anonymous
NP here. I don't think PP meant that's what their respective policies were, but that's what they heard. I can't stand Trump, but I think that's pretty accurate. We live in a time of sound-bite politics with the expectation of little to no critical thought from voters. I see it in coastal elites as much as I see it in so-called "low information" voters. People cite all sorts of innuendo and lies as their reasons for voting, making a mockery of our democracy. My opinion is that the Republican party has recently been more aggressive about promoting this kind of ignorance, but the Democrats do it too (and did with exaggerating every other word that came out of Trump's mouth). It's incredibly damaging, because it makes it easy to dismiss all criticism as spin. I think Trump is vile, but he also said things that were meaningful and true. But his PR machine spent so much time parsing the semantics of the overblown arguments made against him it left little time to actually discuss the real ones. It probably is a failing of our schools, honestly. The lack of critical thinking drove me crazy when I taught university courses, and now I have to live with the consequences in the form of absurdly incompetent government. |
Anonymous
| I'm sure you can all put your intelligent heads together in this echo chamber to come up with all the reasons that these women whom you deem so stupid and pathetic don't think the same way you do. With all the effort being put towards that goal here, surely you will find an answer. Keep at it, girls. |
Anonymous
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I'm a white woman who voted for Trump--really, more against Hillary.
Why? Because I think she is a disaster. I'd love to see a woman President--but, not this woman. And, I have intelligence enough to choose which person will be better for this country. Everything Hillary touched turned into disaster. Why would we expect her Presidency to be any different. |
Anonymous
| My sister is a cop and she was convinced Hillary was going to singlehandedly take away cops' ability to use force. She also thinks Trump is a good businessman. Even she admitted "he has not idea what he's doing" when it come to foreign policy. |