05-28-2017, 03:37 PM
(05-28-2017, 03:16 PM)ballsofsteel Wrote: You can't really blame most of his supporters. I'm not talking about the right wing dingbat hypocrites politicians who said Trump was no good only to turn around and say he was great after he won. I'm talking about all supporters looking for change. Trump said all the right things campaigning that people wanted to hear. They didn't realize he was a con man who wants to be king. Couple that with a poor candidate in Hillary, the Presidency was ripe for the taking. Just my 2 cents.
I go back and forth about how much responsibility I want to hold his supporters for. Probably over 85% of my local area supported Trump so I know a lot of his supporters as my neighbors and such. They are like any other place some good some bad in fact people around here seem generally friendly but I know from experiences I've had with them that at times they don't have tolerance for different points of views and it's that kind of approach to their politics that frustrates me and why I think the reality of what Trump is and what he said over the course of the election to now never hit home for them. It waters down all serious discussions and eventually turns into the same recycled lines being blindly said without any thought.
They might not have realized it but everything you needed to know about Trump was out there and it's the voters responsibility to be educated. While I agree Hillary was a poor candidate Trump was just a poor human being imo. I believe if Bernie was the candidate for the Democrats he would've won. He was the morally superior candidate to Trump and still had an outsider angle. Combine the opinion of Hillary and the way voters were feeling aboust established politicians she had a slim chance.
