With the rise of Donald Trump I have been asking myself that very question……I mean I am not real clear on his policies other than the wall thing or the Muslim ban or the ban of refugees…..all of which I cannot agree with….but what is his specific economic policy? And there are similar questions about other important issues…at least in my mind….I am an apologist (so I have been told) but if that means educated and inquisitive then I accept that characterization….
But the question still remains….just why is he so damn popular?
So far the people that support him undying are what I call low information voters….these voters fall for diatribes and slogans that have NOTHING to do with the actual act of governing…..(I could be a lot more cruel but I am trying to keep my cool on this subject)…..
Just who are the people that swear by the Bible that they will vote for Trump?
I found an article that bases the answer on statistics…..
The latest Huffington Post Poll of Polls shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 47.1 percent to 39.7 percent. Many political observers feel that Trump’s voter “ceiling” is 40 percent of the electorate. Who are these voters?
Two years ago, Pew Research Center released a typology of American politics. The typology distinguished between three classes of voters: the general public, registered voters, and the “politically engaged.” In the category “politically engaged” there were three categories of Republicans: “Steadfast Conservatives: socially conservative populists” at 19 percent; “Business Conservatives: Pro-Wall street, pro-immigrant” at 17 percent; “Young Outsiders: conservative views on government, not on social issues” at 11 percent.
Source: Who Are Trump Voters?
So basically it is the voters that are the most angry at the government and the system that will vote for this person…..no matter what he says or does….they will vote for the man……
Three placards were waved prominently and defiantly in front of the podium before Donald Trump addressed a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday. “Veterans for Trump.”
They were an indication that, despite what pundits have described as the worst campaign week for any presidential candidate in living memory, the Republican nominee still has a solid core of supporters who either do not know or do not care – even as Republicans in Congress who served in the military struggle with their candidate.
Source: ‘I’m still for him’: Trump fans undaunted by string of campaign blunders | US news | The Guardian
His, Trump’s, rhetoric has got Americans, some Americans, lathered up to the point of anger for the first time……is that what you are thinking?
Anti-immigrant rage? Warnings that the America we know and love is dying? We’ve seen this before………
On a stormy Monday afternoon in the spring of 1844, a stout, well-built, 35-year-old Philadelphia newspaper editor ascended a makeshift podium assembled from a stack of packing boxes. Surrounded by some three thousand of his fervent supporters — butchers, grocers, carpenters and craftsman, many armed for this occasion — Lewis Charles Levin had come to the main market in Philly’s heavily Irish-Catholic neighborhood of Kensington. He was there to rail against the rising tide of Catholic immigrants taking jobs from proud Pennsylvania-born Protestants, and the resulting “consequence upon American liberty” he vowed would surely come of admitting even more foreigners.
Unsurprisingly, Kensington’s Irish residents did not take kindly to Levin’s provocation and within minutes he had more to dodge than the water pouring down from the heavens. Vegetables were hurled his way, followed by bricks and stones. Levin’s livid supporters responded in kind, sending the Irish streaming into the streets, guns soon blazing on both sides. By the time they were run out of the neighborhood later that week, Levin’s acolytes had set fire to some thirty homes throughout the neighborhood, even burning two Catholic churches to the ground. At least seven people were killed, with dozens injured on both sides.
Source: Meet the Donald Trump of the 1840s: Lewis Charles Levin rode the wave of righteous anger – Salon.com
I know that some of my more Right leaning nose pickers do not appreciate a history lesson….but tough it out…….ya see this yutz is NOTHING new.
Let me try to explain who those of us who support Trump with undying and unwavering determination really are:
Do you remember studying about The American Revolution and reading about the thousands of soon-to-be Americans who were so loyal to The King and to the Royal dominion of England that they took all their belongings and all their wealth and fled to Canada and elsewhere to avoid taking a negative position against their cherished soveriegn and his edicts while the “Rabble” surrounding them took up arms and went on the offensive in the name of Independence and Freedom”
Well to make a long story short, the Trump die-hards are some of that same kind of “low-information” rabble who forsook their dreams of being a better English idea and decided they wanted to be free from the King and his crap and you know the rest of the story.
Now that another coronation is about to be consummated here in America, the common rabble are once more marching toward a new Concord.
This time, however, it is going to be done legally and within the bounds of the law.
Good break-down…I do not understand how he can pop off and then walk it back and the people still blame everyone but him…..that does represent a good portion of what Americans are like….so ity does kinda make sense.
He wouldn’t have to walk back if the opposition did not jump on every pronouncement and try to make something out of it that it was never intended to be. There is more truth to Trump than anybody in a comfort zone wants to admit.
Watch as CNN and others run banners underneath his appearances contradicting almost everything he is saying.
When did it become the job of the public media to “Correct” a candidate with banners running beneath his commentary?
Where were the “Correcting” banners when Hillary was spinning her fantasies to the American People?
There weren’t any were there?
It’s politics…..the same is done to every candidate….the problem is NO one will admit when they made a mistake or mis-spoke….we can hate a candidate but we should be able to have ones that do more to unify the nation….that has not been done in 30+ years and that is why it is f*cked up and almost beyond repair.
America has become too big and too diversified to ever be governed effectively again. It would take a national crisis of epic proportions to unite the country again.
And each candidate is trying like hell to generate that epic need.
Seems Trump himself has given us the key to understanding his campaign. It’s sarcasm. Nothing he says is real or true, then … and maybe that goes for all of his supporters.
HA…I saw that…still ain’t buying it….