Argus Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 27 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said: Regular people know that affirmative action or NAFTA hurt them, and they know that they can't afford a healthcare system being forced on them etc.etc. No. They only think they know this because of relentless corporate propaganda. In fact, it's the corporations and their paid politicians who have hurt them. 27 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said: Whether it is blamed on The Clintons, Obama or Bush makes little difference to the Trump revolution, all they know is things have gotten progressively worse since the Reagan years. Yes, but Trump is part of the problem not the solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 (edited) . Edited October 16, 2016 by eyeball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 7 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said: Sure call it 53 if that turns your crank, it's still not the point of anything. You wouldn't say that if you were interested in historical accuracy but you're no so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 6 minutes ago, Argus said: Yes, but Trump is part of the problem not the solution. Trump is an effect not a cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hal 9000 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 Dude, I couldn't give a sheet about corporations or what you think is the actual reasons for the decline of America, I'm telling you what the perception is. And, you don't think Trump is the solution - fair enough, but to think a Clinton presidency is going to take that country anywhere but down even lower is sheer naivety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hal 9000 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 1 minute ago, eyeball said: You wouldn't say that if you were interested in historical accuracy but you're no so... No, for the purpose of the thread and the questions posed. This isn't about dissecting the decline of western civilization, it's about understanding what people are feeling - and why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hal 9000 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 7 minutes ago, eyeball said: Trump is an effect not a cause. I don't know if you posted this by accident, but you're exactly right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 Yes, I was merely pointing out what I feel is the exact cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 I never once said Clinton is the answer, I still hope Trump wins. A Clinton victory will just prolong the agony of driving off the cliff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush_cheney2004 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 It doesn't matter who wins....America will continue being America for voters and non-voters. And Canadians will continue to watch on American TV. Another federal election is only two years away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilber Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 6 hours ago, eyeball said: I never once said Clinton is the answer, I still hope Trump wins. A Clinton victory will just prolong the agony of driving off the cliff. If you mean Trump will put a brick on the gas pedal, I completely agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Graham Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Read the articles in the OP. Enlightening, explains a lot, thanks for posting Cyber! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted October 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 8 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said: Read the articles in the OP. Enlightening, explains a lot, thanks for posting Cyber! Thanks. It does a good job explaining the rise of the Tea Party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 12 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said: Read the articles in the OP. Enlightening, explains a lot, thanks for posting Cyber! Did you know the median income of Trump supporters is $72,000? The median income for Clinton supporters is $61,000 The Myth of Trump's 'working class' Support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted October 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Argus said: Did you know the median income of Trump supporters is $72,000? The median income for Clinton supporters is $61,000 The Myth of Trump's 'working class' Support The articles were not strictly about poverty. The median is also misleading in this case, as Trump support is very likely multi-modal. Edited October 18, 2016 by cybercoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Graham Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 5 hours ago, Argus said: Did you know the median income of Trump supporters is $72,000? The median income for Clinton supporters is $61,000 The Myth of Trump's 'working class' Support Working class white people would make a lot more than working class black people and hispanics etc (more likely to vote Hillary). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?Impact Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 5 hours ago, cybercoma said: The articles were not strictly about poverty. The median is also misleading in this case, as Trump support is very likely multi-modal. Is that like bi-polar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 I came across an interview with Bruce Spingsteen this morning in the Globe. Much of it is unrelated to politics, but I thought a part was very in-line with this topic and sounded very true to life. He is America’s great contemporary chronicler of the betrayed working class, from Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978 to the anti-establishment fury of Wrecking Ball in 2012. I tell him that one of his songs, Downbound Train, has haunted me for years since I heard it on his 1984 album Born in the USA. This is how it begins: I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumberyard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the car wash Where all it ever does is rain Don’t you feel like you’re a rider on a downbound train “Huh,” he says when I tell him this. Clearly he doesn’t get asked much about Downbound Train. But its themes are familiar, and the narrator is an archetype found in many of Springsteen’s songs, a man who wonders why he’s on a downbound train while the fat cats in New York and Washington are riding their elevators to the penthouse. These are the men and women who live in small-town New Jersey and Ohio and Pennsylvania, the same towns a teenaged Springsteen toured with his band in a clapped-out car he didn’t even have a licence to drive. He says: “What we see in the States at the moment are the results of 30 or 40 years of neglecting the effects of deindustrialization and globalization on a large part of the population. … The world changed and a lot of people didn’t have the ability or the circumstance or the preparation to change with it. That’s a very difficult thing. If someone told me tomorrow that I couldn’t play music any more, I don’t know what I’d do. I’d be at a complete loss. If your steel mill shuts down, if your factory shuts down, and the job you’ve done for 20 or 30 years goes away, you’re abandoned. You’re orphaned.” An orphan might be susceptible to a demagogue with a grifter’s confidence and a powerful line in empty promises. Springsteen, as you might imagine, has many thoughts about Donald Trump, and not one of them is happy. “I hope Donald Trump goes down hard, and Hillary Clinton is elected president. I like her; I think she’d be a very good president. “Donald Trump is simply a very dangerous man who has ruined the political discourse of the nation, and is a real danger to democracy. He’s taken his followers to a place that is beyond democracy when he talks about rigged elections. There’s a lot of very, very dangerous talk out there that subverts democratic processes.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/once-upon-a-time-in-bruce-springsteens-america/article32469925/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted October 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 5 minutes ago, Argus said: I came across an interview with Bruce Spingsteen this morning in the Globe. Much of it is unrelated to politics, but I thought a part was very in-line with this topic and sounded very true to life. [snip]An orphan might be susceptible to a demagogue with a grifter’s confidence and a powerful line in empty promises. Springsteen, as you might imagine, has many thoughts about Donald Trump, and not one of them is happy. “I hope Donald Trump goes down hard, and Hillary Clinton is elected president. I like her; I think she’d be a very good president. [snip] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/once-upon-a-time-in-bruce-springsteens-america/article32469925/ Thanks for sharing this. I'm reminded of an interview a friend shared with me this week. Disregard that this is from Rachel Maddow because that's not the important part. This is retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter four years ago talking about "civic ignorance" in America and to say the least, it is prophetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 What the media gets wrong about Trump voters. If one listens to this it suggests that Argus is probably the best representative of a quintessential Trump supporter we have in this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIK Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Cy , read all the mumble jumble that so called experts put out if you want. People are pissed, that is all. BreX, CETA, trump . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilber Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Being pissed is not a plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 You can certainly form a plan around the fact people are pissed. Even if the reasons are badly misplaced or misunderstood. The plan doesn't have to be based in any more reality than the anger - even more so when fear's thrown into the mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bush_cheney2004 Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 4 minutes ago, eyeball said: You can certainly form a plan around the fact people are pissed. Even if the reasons are badly misplaced or misunderstood. The plan doesn't have to be based in any more reality than the anger - even more so when fear's thrown into the mix. Agreed.....worked quite well back in 1775. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilber Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 6 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said: Agreed.....worked quite well back in 1775. Who became Il Duce in 1775? Also worked quite well in 1921, 1933 and 1938 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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