(November 10, 2016 at 1:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 1:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: They're just further pushing ppl away from their preferred party/ideology by doing that though. They're coming off as entitled and bratty bc their candidate didn't win.
Most ppl who voted for Trump are middle aged blue collar workers who think millennials and their liberal ideologies are lazy and entitled. These protests are only validating what Trump voters already think of "the other side."
And when Drumpf's fans wear sheets and hoods, carry guns and wave rebel flags they play into what the other side thinks of racist rubes. It works both ways.
Look, I'll be honest with you.
As you know, my husband is a pilot in the AF and we live in a very small military town in the middle of nowhere. Pretty much everyone we interact with here is military. My friends here are all military wives, and his friends here are all the people he works with. Even though my husband and I voted 3rd party, the vast majority of military officers and their spouses voted for Trump. Not because they liked him. And I can tell you right now they're not members of the KKK and they don't have rebel flags. Guns, yes, most of them do own some. They are in the military after all.
But my point is, these people aren't racist bigots who love Trump. They're not the KKK. They're not racist. They begrudgingly voted for him because they saw him as a better alternative to Hillary and to the liberal ideology. These are hard working, honest people who believe in serving their country, and are very very much underpaid for how much they work and what they do. And seeing all these people protesting, clogging up streets, and burning down flags because the candidate of their choice didn't win, is only validating their decision to not be on the same side as these people, and to not want to be part of their ideology... which they see as lazy and entitled.
If the goal here is to win more people to the Democratic side for next time, these protests are extremely counter productive. That's all I'm saying.
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