Nov 22, 2016

Hey man, they just wanted better healthcare and tax breaks. They aren't responsible for their vote enabling a group of extremists or putting Steve Bannon in the White House.

 

Nov 22, 2016

definitely nothing suspect about being a trump supporter @lordkimura

 

Nov 23, 2016

White supremacists are a despicable group of people and I denounce them. I denounce them. They do not hold my values. I am a president for all people, and it's time for us to unite as Americans to make this country great again. Thank you and God bless.

 

Nov 22, 2016

"Joe (Sam) the Plumber (unlicensed plumber assistant)"

Is the clearest example of this mindset.

He confronted Candidate Obama in 2008. Became a Republican hero by calling Obama a "socialist" because his plan of raising taxes on the 1% would hurt him because he planned on being rich.


At the time he never made more than $40,000 in a year.



These people are delusional and useful idiots to the GOP.

 

Nov 22, 2016

i hate resorting to pithy truisms about ~americans~ but the "temporary embarrassed millionaires" bit is so consistently true. (largely white) middle americans so often vote against their economic self-interest because they imagine themselves as part of the financial elite.

 

Nov 23, 2016

 

Nov 22, 2016

Unfortunately I grew up in a town full of these exact types. I didn't know this was an actual thing but I never understood why a bunch of oilfield shitheads who made 40-80k a year thought they were part of the 1%. You nailed it with the 50 thousand dollar lifted pick up trucks though lmao.

 

Nov 22, 2016

I call it "temporarily displaced billionaire disorder"... I honestly think this is where the GOP gets the majority of their votes.


I work with a bunch of people with this mindset.

They are hood rich white people who drive $50k pickups... are jealous of people on welfare and are worried the Koch brothers are paying too much in taxes.

These people definitely listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin... think they are smart because of that (even though I can always debunk anything they heard off the top of my head).


The majority of the posters on the d12world debate & politics subforum in 2004 were like this... they thought John Kerry voters were stealing from their future earnings and George W. Bush was a brilliant war time strategist .