Why do liberals think some Trump supporters are stupid?

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05 Jun 2020, 8:46 am

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Understanding of the political system seems to also be very low and many people vote for candidates as if it's a popularity contest, buy into slogans/buzz-words and propaganda and don't pay enough attention to the big picture, how and if some of the promised policies would come into existence or their possible consequences. This, of course, leaves plenty of room for opportunists and other ruthless individuals to take advantage of the situation.

Do you know a democracy free of this issue?


Nope :twisted:

But I would say that "big picture" in the US has been particularly unfortunate lately and things are getting rather... ahem, complicated everywhere. The disastrous choice of Biden as a candidate doesn't help much either.


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05 Jun 2020, 8:55 am

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I would say that "big picture" in the US has been particularly unfortunate lately

Makes me think of this half-a-century-old clip...


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05 Jun 2020, 9:09 am

There are many similarities to what occurred during the 60s.



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05 Jun 2020, 9:12 am

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There are many similarities to what occurred during the 60s.

There are even ambitious space exploration plans again!


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05 Jun 2020, 9:17 am

magz wrote:
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I would say that "big picture" in the US has been particularly unfortunate lately

Makes me think of this half-a-century-old clip...


Point taken, some things never change, like human nature.

At least we have humour as a last defence :lol:


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05 Jun 2020, 9:18 am

In 1969, they were talking about a manned Mars mission in 1985.

Elon Musk had plans for a Mars mission about 2023....but that’s been scrapped for now.



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05 Jun 2020, 9:35 am

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In 1969, they were talking about a manned Mars mission in 1985.

Elon Musk had plans for a Mars mission about 2023....but that’s been scrapped for now.

Depends on develoment of Starship, it's very hard to predict. Musk hopes he'll live to see the first Mars colony.


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05 Jun 2020, 10:09 am

People who exercise their right to vote are not inherently stupid. Trump is not stupid either, but is a horrible person. Why would anyone vote for him, except that they feel and think like him.


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05 Jun 2020, 10:44 am

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People who exercise their right to vote are not inherently stupid. Trump is not stupid either, but is a horrible person. Why would anyone vote for him, except that they feel and think like him.

Reasons to vote for Trump over a Dem
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1. You don't approve of killing babies (Biden will increase access to abortions)

2. You like keeping your money (Biden wants to increase taxes)

3. You don't approve of amnesty for illegal aliens (Biden says he will grant amnesty on day one).

4. You don't want government running health care (Biden says he wants to expand government health care).

5. You like your Trump tax cuts (Biden wants to repeal them).

6. Trump is a novice, non-polished (Biden is a career politician, and PC).

7. Trump says he cares for workers and actively supports select industries (Biden will likely support free trade deals, reverse industry tariffs)

8. Trump says he cares about coal miners (Biden will likely reverse Trump's emission reductions).

9. Trump speaks to the lower class (Democrats are accused of being too elite , too owned by business to care about them)

10. Trump gets a tan (Biden looks very old. Biden even gets confused when he speaks which compounds his grandpa Joe old man look).


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05 Jun 2020, 10:54 am

Reasons to Vote For Anyone But Trump

1. What a woman chooses to do with her own body is her right; no man should ever dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her own body; women are not the property of men.

2. Given the choice between raising taxes and lowering the deficit, I choose to lower the deficit.

3. Amnesty only insofar as illegal aliens are given the choice between being processed for citizenship or going back home.

4. Government could run health care no worse than greedy corporate interests.

5. WHAT tax cuts? They were only for the wealthy.

6. Better a bumbling professional than a wilfully ignorant amateur.

7. Trump cares only for those who worship him, and only for as long as he needs them.

8. Close the coal mines.

9. Trump speaks to white males who are afraid to lose their traditional supremacy over women, immigrants, and minorities.


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05 Jun 2020, 11:21 am



Smiles; i LiVE iN A Locality Where Trump
is still Supported the Most by 'A Red State Mentality';
The Only Excuse i hear now from these folks as to why they still support this
'Father Of all Lies' is because the 'Liberals are Baby Killers'; in Other Words, it doesn't matter How
Slowly The Ignorance of Trump Tortures His Supporters in a 'Slow Death on Fifth Avenue', now;
As Long as the Other
Side Is the Enemy
of 'Pro-Choice',
Trump is their
'Same Fifth Avenue God';
Don't Believe me? What would Happen
if Trump or any other Republican Candidate
Suddenly Reverses 'their plot' and supports Pro-Choice?
Bingo! Fifth Avenue Cure; all the Way to Pro-Choice for Real;
Where Does This Ignorance come from? 'Ignorance of Religion'
Of 'Moral Right' Over Do Less Harm With Ethical Common Sense;
There are less Abortions Now than any other Day since 1973, when
Roe Versus Wade Was Passed. Why? Common Frigging Sense; Planned
Parenthood With Education; and Effective Free Birth Control Methods reduce
Abortions the Most; Studies Already Show that More Women are Maimed,
Permanently Disabled; And Dead Through Unsafe Abortions that Naturally
Occur as Part of Human Nature when Subsistence or Mental Health is at
Stake in Countries Where Abortions are Illegal; And in Fact, the Abortions
Rates Where Unsafe, Where Planned Parenthood Education and Effective
Contraception is Not Freely Available are Higher Where Abortion is Illegal.
But of course, this Direction is More than the Length of a Twitter Breath to Understand.
It's not so Much Deficits in
Intellectual Core
Potential as it is the
Failure of Humans
to Be able to Pay Attention
More than the Average Goldfish
'These Days' as Science Shows is the
Current Less than Average Human Gold Fish Attention Span.

'They' Can't understand Much further
Than An unborn child is Not going to be born;
Failing to Understand More of everyone will suffer worse
and die, if they ever got their wish to kill more Babies and Women;
With all the Maiming, Disability, and Yes, actual Killing that comes
from Unsafe Abortions, where it is illegal;
But still is Part of Human
Nature That Will Happen
No Matter if Legal or Not.
The Church is Ignorant
And The Followers Value
Ignorance Over Truth in Light.
Honestly Brighter Truth in Light is a better way;
But it takes Critical Thinking Ability NoW that only
Comes With Focus and Attention to more than a Gold Fish Twitter Breath.

Most Everything We Do Now
As far as Gardening Humans
is Directed at Less Attention and more 'fluff'.

But An Instagram Butt is all ya need to get rich...

My God, Just as an Experiment i did some Nude Art With Stars Covering
my Private Parts on my Blog and my Views Went Up Double and haha i'll be 60
Tomorrow on June 6th; My Excuse to my Religious Friends is i gave up clothes
Except for Stars for a continuing Lent and Ramadan too; It was kind of Hilarious still to
tell the
Truth
in Light;
But Of course i'm
in Good Company as
the Gospel of Thomas Verse
37 indicates that Jesus was
A famous First Male Stripper
who did his Best to encourage
His Followers to Shed their Clothes
And Tread on them without Shame
to Find the Living Naturist God Love Force Within
All Free; Without any Religious Instruction at all;
Other than Just Strip off Your Clothes and Be God Nature Free.
Hehe; but of course if that was the Religion Popes wouldn't be
able to wear their fabulous Gold Robes pretending they are higher
than below
a Grain
of Sand
that is the
Same Nature God;

Meanwhile, Democracy is on Life Support Drip; and Most folks just don't care.

Bigger Picture Views Dance Sing Eventually Less Humans by the Total Nature of this; Nature smiles
Still with Less Human Children in the Future as the Best Birth Control is Members of the Sexes
no longer interested in each other in the 'Biblical Actual Act'; How Frigging Ironic, Nature passes
the Popcorn more...

-Always
in Balance
Karmic Nature (God) Sows and Reaps...

So F in Predictable all of this for 'those'
with EYes Who see bigger than Twitter Breaths.

i am Gonna Play Naked as long as this Peace Lasts.

Green Pill for me; the Red and Blue Pills are no part of my Living Naked God Tree.

In Short; and
Shorts and Less;
The Problems
Always Start
And End
With
'Religion';
Nature Always Begins Now For Real GOD All in All NAKED
Without all the Ignorance of Human CuLTuRaL Clothes;
Naked Religion in Balance Naturally Works Best With Love;
Hell
i mean
Heaven
Just watch
an Average
Bonobo Jack or
Jill Jump THeiR Own Hills;
THeir Secret is they need no 'PAils'...
Hmm; This could turn into 'Alice and Wonderland', see ya later
With Cheshire Cat SMiLes Never Ending NoW With No Need for Mad Hats..;)


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05 Jun 2020, 1:10 pm

Why to vote Democratic:

Abortion on demand, unrestricted, without apology, and judges who won't overturn Roe v. Wade.

LGBT people can marry who they want, use the bathroom for the gender they identify with, and judges who won't overturn Obergefell v. Hodges or Lawrence v. Texas.

While no Democrat has suggested this, certain verses in the Bible and Quran (for example, Leviticus 18:22, the one that says homosexuality is an "abomination") being classified as hate speech.


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05 Jun 2020, 1:47 pm

Probably all liberals think Trump supporters are stupid.


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05 Jun 2020, 4:06 pm

I don't think stupidity is necessarily the same thing as unconstitutionality, but there happens to be a lot of overlap in that venn diagram.

It's pretty simple, if you don't know the legal basis of what you're talking about, it's uncouth to shove it down everyone's throats as if you do. Inquiring minds know the difference. We got along more or less OK for centuries without fascism, just because some people think fascism is not so dirty a word as socialism does not ground their trend-based thinking in reality.


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05 Jun 2020, 4:07 pm

Trump is going up against the internet; that's a lot like starting a land war in Siberia.


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05 Jun 2020, 4:17 pm

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Trump is going up against the internet; that's a lot like starting a land war in Siberia.


Maybe he imagines himself as Genghis Khan or one of the Stroganovs. It's not like conquering Siberia is impossible, otherwise Siberia would still be independent and not a part of Russia.


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