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Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
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Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 19, 2019 at 7:40 pm (This post was last modified: January 19, 2019 at 7:40 pm by GODZILLA.)
It isn't worth it. It really isn't! I stopped this shortly after he won the election in November 2016. You are NOT going to change their mind. No matter what sorts of facts you provide to them. You could tell them that the sky is blue, but if Trump told them it was orange they would rather believe him. I constantly see on social media people getting into arguments with Trump supporters on Facebook news stories. It is useless! Your heart may be in a good place, but these people's brains are fried and can't use logical reasoning. Trump is their God. They worship Trump. Trumpism is a new cult.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 19, 2019 at 7:43 pm
(January 19, 2019 at 7:40 pm)GODZILLA Wrote: It isn't worth it. It really isn't! I stopped this shortly after he won the election in November 2016. You are NOT going to change their mind. No matter what sorts of facts you provide to them. You could tell them that the sky is blue, but if Trump told them it was orange they would rather believe him. I constantly see on social media people getting into arguments with Trump supporters on Facebook news stories. It is useless! Your heart may be in a good place, but these people's brains are fried and can't use logical reasoning. Trump is their God. They worship Trump. Trumpism is a new cult.

I agree, but the point in still engaging them isn't to convince the delusional, but act as a zoo exhibit for those who are on your side and those on the fence.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 19, 2019 at 8:19 pm
(January 19, 2019 at 7:40 pm)GODZILLA Wrote: It isn't worth it. It really isn't! I stopped this shortly after he won the election in November 2016. You are NOT going to change their mind. No matter what sorts of facts you provide to them. You could tell them that the sky is blue, but if Trump told them it was orange they would rather believe him. I constantly see on social media people getting into arguments with Trump supporters on Facebook news stories. It is useless! Your heart may be in a good place, but these people's brains are fried and can't use logical reasoning. Trump is their God. They worship Trump. Trumpism is a new cult.

Meh. A can't you see how wrong you are approach is always doomed. 

I live in a small rustbelt town (western PA near the Ohio border) full of people who voted for Trump. They aren't very much like Trump supporters as seen on TV. A lot of them voted for Obama's 'change you can believe in'.  They figured Trump would really change things. I think they just voted for a wrecking ball so that maybe some real change will come from picking up the pieces. They might not be completely wrong. A lot of them liked Bernie Sanders. They don't like Hillary. They were disappointed with Obama. But they are receptive to Bernie, who probably isn't going to run this time. I am hoping for Sherrod Brown, because I am pretty certain these folks will go for him. Talking Sherrod Brown makes them perk up a little bit. I think that quite a few of them would leave Trump for him.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 19, 2019 at 9:24 pm
(January 19, 2019 at 7:40 pm)GODZILLA Wrote: It isn't worth it. It really isn't! I stopped this shortly after he won the election in November 2016. You are NOT going to change their mind. No matter what sorts of facts you provide to them. You could tell them that the sky is blue, but if Trump told them it was orange they would rather believe him. I constantly see on social media people getting into arguments with Trump supporters on Facebook news stories. It is useless! Your heart may be in a good place, but these people's brains are fried and can't use logical reasoning. Trump is their God. They worship Trump. Trumpism is a new cult.

Most people are no more political than they are religious.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 19, 2019 at 10:38 pm
What's that saying, "If you could reason with trump supporters, there would be no trump supporters.".
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 19, 2019 at 10:52 pm
(January 19, 2019 at 10:38 pm)no one Wrote: What's that saying, "If you could reason with trump supporters, there would be no trump supporters.".

Case in point- anyone fucking stupid enough to wear a t-shirt that says, "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat" needs the drool wiped off their chin and sent back home to mama.  Dodgy   Or maybe go live in Russia for awhile.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 20, 2019 at 12:14 am
I didn't vote for him.

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I don' t support him.

Nor do many of the people that voted for him.

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Many simply saw Hillary as totally unacceptable.

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There' s a whole lotta people that don't need " reasoning with" - they just need better options.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 20, 2019 at 12:41 am
(January 20, 2019 at 12:14 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I didn't vote for him.

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I don' t support him.

Nor do many of the people that voted for him.

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Many simply saw Hillary as totally unacceptable.

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There' s a whole lotta people that don't need " reasoning with" - they just need better options.

This country has no future if decent options can be so easily smeared in the minds of so many so that those with utterly reprehensible goals can be made to seem not as bad in comparison.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 20, 2019 at 8:28 am
Epic character assassination is epic.
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RE: Stop trying to reason with Trump supporters
January 20, 2019 at 9:23 am
I've been arguing with my pocket book and thru my state reps. Arguing with the base is pointless.
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