RE: Does anyone understand Trumps base?
December 5, 2019 at 6:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2019 at 6:20 pm by Fake Messiah.)
It is a cult. People for some reason feel connection towards Trump, they feel everything he does is great, they imagine him doing stuff he didn't do, they see him as persecuted and they would rather blame whole world than him. And it is as some sort of hypnosis that usually happens in a religion.
For instance there's a new documentary on poverty in US and you can see that most of those people are Trump followers. And although he is making their lives worse, like in Appalachia where most people live of food stamps and Trump wants to ban food stamps, people defend him with "He's a billionaire, he is close to his family."
https://youtu.be/JHDkALRz5Rk
Now why is that I can only guess. Maybe they see themselves in him since Trump is white trash, but the reason he is so uneducated and behaves like a hick is because he never had to work at anything: he always had assistants who will do his homework, paying teachers to give him passing grades, then other people who will work and make decisions while he fucks around, eats junk food and plays golf. But of course, the reason his supporters ended up dumb and yokel is because of lack of opportunities in life, while, on the other hand, he had all the opportunities that they could only dream about, but he was too lazy.
So when they say "He's a billionaire" they probably mean "He's a billionaire white trash" and that gives them hope because, as white trash themselves, they hope they'll become billionaires like him.
For instance there's a new documentary on poverty in US and you can see that most of those people are Trump followers. And although he is making their lives worse, like in Appalachia where most people live of food stamps and Trump wants to ban food stamps, people defend him with "He's a billionaire, he is close to his family."
https://youtu.be/JHDkALRz5Rk
Now why is that I can only guess. Maybe they see themselves in him since Trump is white trash, but the reason he is so uneducated and behaves like a hick is because he never had to work at anything: he always had assistants who will do his homework, paying teachers to give him passing grades, then other people who will work and make decisions while he fucks around, eats junk food and plays golf. But of course, the reason his supporters ended up dumb and yokel is because of lack of opportunities in life, while, on the other hand, he had all the opportunities that they could only dream about, but he was too lazy.
So when they say "He's a billionaire" they probably mean "He's a billionaire white trash" and that gives them hope because, as white trash themselves, they hope they'll become billionaires like him.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
