If Trump wins the general, who will liberals blame?

[Anonymous]

I'd blame the Clinton campaign for sheer incompetence because beating a maniac like Trump should be easy.

[Anonymous]

If Trump wins it will be because we have had 8 years of a President and Congress (both Republican and Democrat) who have had no concern for the issues that are important to their electorate. The political elite have treated the American people like little children or mentally impaired individuals ignoring the "will of the people" especially regard to illegal immigration and business. They "people" are reacting. If anyone is to blame for the mess we now find ourselves with Trump the maniac, Bernie the socialist and Hillary the dishonest narcissist you need look no farther than Washington, DC.

[Anonymous]

^^^and neither party could put up a decent candidate. The field this year on both side is abominable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^and neither party could put up a decent candidate. The field this year on both side is abominable.

I agree with this wholeheartedly!

[Anonymous]

I will blame anyone who didn't vote.

[Anonymous]

I will blame the crappy educational system which encourages the dumbing down of most of our country. Educated people will not vote for Trump for the most part. The rest of the world cannot believe Americans are this stupid but this is our reality.

[Anonymous]

Think of the average person. Approximately 50% of people are stupider than that. It does not take much to get another 1% to vote for you, whatever party you belong to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will blame the crappy educational system which encourages the dumbing down of most of our country. Educated people will not vote for Trump for the most part. The rest of the world cannot believe Americans are this stupid but this is our reality.

The same educational system that dumbs down civics, history for political correctness, and glosses over constructional law?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will blame the crappy educational system which encourages the dumbing down of most of our country. Educated people will not vote for Trump for the most part. The rest of the world cannot believe Americans are this stupid but this is our reality.

Polls do not seem to bear this out, though.

I agree with your sentiment, as I am truly perplexed by support for Trump. The person I thought would be most likely to be pro-Trump, my FIL, thinks he's a complete loon and frightening for our country. I have never felt so alienated and out-of-touch from a large bloc of Americans as I currently feel...I know a pretty politically diverse set of people, and I don't know a single Trump supporter. Or at least not one that admits it. And, like I said, the people I would most have expected to support Trump hate him, so my basic understanding of who his supporters might be seems to be off as well.

Almost any other area of policy or politics where I have a firm conviction, I can at least see and intellectually understand the other side (part of growing up in a very conservative household but turning out to be quite liberal, I guess). I have no understanding of why people support Trump, but they obviously do. And there are enough people who do that it can't be that they are all stupid or uneducated or unapologetic bigots or whatever names you want to call them. I wish there were some polite way of asking this question in real life, but obviously there isn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will blame the crappy educational system which encourages the dumbing down of most of our country. Educated people will not vote for Trump for the most part. The rest of the world cannot believe Americans are this stupid but this is our reality.

Polls do not seem to bear this out, though.

I agree with your sentiment, as I am truly perplexed by support for Trump. The person I thought would be most likely to be pro-Trump, my FIL, thinks he's a complete loon and frightening for our country. I have never felt so alienated and out-of-touch from a large bloc of Americans as I currently feel...I know a pretty politically diverse set of people, and I don't know a single Trump supporter. Or at least not one that admits it. And, like I said, the people I would most have expected to support Trump hate him, so my basic understanding of who his supporters might be seems to be off as well.

Almost any other area of policy or politics where I have a firm conviction, I can at least see and intellectually understand the other side (part of growing up in a very conservative household but turning out to be quite liberal, I guess). I have no understanding of why people support Trump, but they obviously do. And there are enough people who do that it can't be that they are all stupid or uneducated or unapologetic bigots or whatever names you want to call them. I wish there were some polite way of asking this question in real life, but obviously there isn't.

The only Trump supporters I have met are truly just stupid people. I would love to meet just one who can explain, in an intelligent way, how he or she thinks this lunatic is qualified to be president.

[Anonymous]

They'll blame someone, they don't believe in accountability.

That being said, they should blame the liberal protestors assaulting innocent people at Trump rallies to include pepper spraying an eight year old girl, hitting people with rocks and even assaulting their own supporters.

when the poor lady was getting assualted and had eggs thrown at her, I heard the collective gasp of disgust from every law abiding citizen in Middle America. The democrats have effectively lost those states. Clinton's polices supporting the outsourcing of American jobs not withstanding

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will blame the crappy educational system which encourages the dumbing down of most of our country. Educated people will not vote for Trump for the most part. The rest of the world cannot believe Americans are this stupid but this is our reality.

Polls do not seem to bear this out, though.

I agree with your sentiment, as I am truly perplexed by support for Trump. The person I thought would be most likely to be pro-Trump, my FIL, thinks he's a complete loon and frightening for our country. I have never felt so alienated and out-of-touch from a large bloc of Americans as I currently feel...I know a pretty politically diverse set of people, and I don't know a single Trump supporter. Or at least not one that admits it. And, like I said, the people I would most have expected to support Trump hate him, so my basic understanding of who his supporters might be seems to be off as well.

Almost any other area of policy or politics where I have a firm conviction, I can at least see and intellectually understand the other side (part of growing up in a very conservative household but turning out to be quite liberal, I guess). I have no understanding of why people support Trump, but they obviously do. And there are enough people who do that it can't be that they are all stupid or uneducated or unapologetic bigots or whatever names you want to call them. I wish there were some polite way of asking this question in real life, but obviously there isn't.

The only Trump supporters I have met are truly just stupid people. I would love to meet just one who can explain, in an intelligent way, how he or she thinks this lunatic is qualified to be president.

For me personally, I find comments like this telling of the liberal personality as a whole. Studies show they're more likely to stop being friends with someone who they don't share political ideals with. The show they're incapable of listening to other ideas or feel threatened their positions won't stand up to scrutiny in a marketplace of free ideas. Just look on college campuses.

When I went o college, people would protest - and they have that right. But they wouldn't willingly stop a speaker from being there or willingly get violent. The past decade, the amount of times liberals have tried to shut down free speech as campuses is amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would blame stupid voters. This includes 1) people who don't know squat about how their govt or the economy works, 2) bigots, and 3) conspiracy theorists, media skeptics, and paranoiacs who don't recognize facts as actual facts.

In other words, the Republican Party base.

[Anonymous]

I will blame the people who place hatred of black people and religious nuts who think Trump represents "family values." Sadly, I am facebook friends with many of these folks, like OP, who will vote against their economic interests every single time. If you are voting for Trump, and your name is not Trump, it is not in your economic interest to do so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will blame the crappy educational system which encourages the dumbing down of most of our country. Educated people will not vote for Trump for the most part. The rest of the world cannot believe Americans are this stupid but this is our reality.

Polls do not seem to bear this out, though.

I agree with your sentiment, as I am truly perplexed by support for Trump. The person I thought would be most likely to be pro-Trump, my FIL, thinks he's a complete loon and frightening for our country. I have never felt so alienated and out-of-touch from a large bloc of Americans as I currently feel...I know a pretty politically diverse set of people, and I don't know a single Trump supporter. Or at least not one that admits it. And, like I said, the people I would most have expected to support Trump hate him, so my basic understanding of who his supporters might be seems to be off as well.

Almost any other area of policy or politics where I have a firm conviction, I can at least see and intellectually understand the other side (part of growing up in a very conservative household but turning out to be quite liberal, I guess). I have no understanding of why people support Trump, but they obviously do. And there are enough people who do that it can't be that they are all stupid or uneducated or unapologetic bigots or whatever names you want to call them. I wish there were some polite way of asking this question in real life, but obviously there isn't.

The only Trump supporters I have met are truly just stupid people. I would love to meet just one who can explain, in an intelligent way, how he or she thinks this lunatic is qualified to be president.

For me personally, I find comments like this telling of the liberal personality as a whole. Studies show they're more likely to stop being friends with someone who they don't share political ideals with. The show they're incapable of listening to other ideas or feel threatened their positions won't stand up to scrutiny in a marketplace of free ideas. Just look on college campuses.

When I went o college, people would protest - and they have that right. But they wouldn't willingly stop a speaker from being there or willingly get violent. The past decade, the amount of times liberals have tried to shut down free speech as campuses is amazing.

That is because, for most "liberals," bigotry is a deal breaker for friends. I am ok with people who are fiscally conservative but those who would support a bigot like Trump are either evil or stupid or both. The other thing is that Trump has NO IDEA how to be president. He doesn't even understand the constitution. So I am thinking that most Trump supporters are just plain stupid, whereas Cruz supporters were probably the evil ones.