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Tags | donald trump , Trump supporters |
View Poll Results: Which Trump supporters do you feel the least amount of sympathy for |
Those who rely on Obamacare | 47 | 48.96% | |
Those living near the border who may loose their homes due to the wall | 15 | 15.63% | |
Those concerned about internet privacy | 11 | 11.46% | |
Those with friends/relatives who were affected by immigration policies | 23 | 23.96% | |
Other | 38 | 39.58% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 96. You may not vote on this poll |
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13th April 2017, 05:36 PM | #43 |
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No sympathy for people so easily manipulated by such an obvious con man. No sympathy for anyone who voted for someone who cannot string together a logical sentence. No sympathy for anyone who gave him an ounce of credibility after admitting to habitual sexual assault.
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The Trump supporters I have the least sympathy for are the ones who are not at any risk of losing their health insurance, their jobs, or their retirements.
I have a ton of sympathy for those who are going to get screwed from voting for Trump. They were victims of a con-man and they are going to suffer. |
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13th April 2017, 06:39 PM | #48 |
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Damn upchurch, you're a really good person. For real.
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13th April 2017, 08:11 PM | #51 |
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13th April 2017, 08:18 PM | #52 |
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I confess I do feel sympathy for the Trump voters. Yes. I know they are bunch of easy marks, deluded, and in many cases stupid. Yes. I know that most of them are true believers who will defend him and vote for him again if they have the opportunity. Yes. I know that in their number are bigots and racists.
And yet I'm not keen on them suffering because of Trump, his cronies, and the Republican Party any more than I want to suffer the bastards. I guess this is because I don't see them as a demographic It, but as people I know and encounter in life. When they get the shaft they voted for, I'll not gloat or tell them I told them so. They will get my sighs, even if the stupid fools go blaming Obama for their misfortune. I grew up in a family of idiots. If I insisted I'd only associate with people of like intelligence and values to mine, I'd have no friends. And I'm old enough to look back on my own life and see when I was an idiot and did things under delusions that were against my well being. And I suffered because of my stupidity. So I empathize with these wretches. Please. Do go ahead and be angry at the bozoids who voted this kyarn into office, and also all those who voted by not voting. I too grieve that we live in a nation of idiots. But when I see their faces, I can't but feel sorry for them. |
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14th April 2017, 05:57 AM | #60 |
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Whichever one has to go to the WH Easter Egg hunt, which our corrupt and treasonous Administration is bungling like everything else (except stuffing taxpayer dollars into Trump properties).
But as to the actual topic of this thread, I voted for the ones whose insurance Trump and much of the Republican leadership is trying get rid of in order to give a fat tax cut to rich folks (as part of the process of setting up an even more ginormous tax cut for them as part of "reform"). A lot of those people are desperate, and losing insurance means they won't be able to get things like diabetes or hypertension, let alone acute illnesses, properly taken care of. As much as I want to slap people who voted for such an obvious liar and thief and con man, I do feel sorry for those who are faced with, say, choosing between feeding their kids this month and getting abcessed teeth pulled. God, that's awful. But at least Trump said he was going to get great, super-cheap insurance for them - an obvious lie, but at least he said that. I have a lot harder time feeling sorry for people who were married to an illegal immigrant, voted for Trump, and then are shocked when wife or hubby is deported. I guess that's one thing (deporting more illegal immigrants) Trump is kinda following through on, with the enthusiastic help of his Cabinet Klansmen like Sessions - although, naturally, it's being done in the most ham-handed and malevolent way imaginable. We'll see how that keeps up when the big farmers and meat-packers start screaming to their pet Congressmen, once their workforce is depleted and American citizens don't flock to newly vacant low-paying, hazardous, back-breaking jobs. |
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A whole ton! That's more than I have, but as a liberal, bleeding heart, snowflake I do have a vial of tears.
As for the Trump voters who are going to get their bank accounts on polices that screw the poor and middle class, in the words of Jesus, "They have their reward." |
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That's interesting, we have the richest poor in the world and yet the middle class is hurting bigly! I wonder if the left realize these people were desperate for something new. You might feel sympathy for their plight? Especially since they've been paying the way for the poor?
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14th April 2017, 08:51 AM | #64 |
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No, we realized it. We just didn't anticipate that so many people in the middle class would think, "You know what's really holding me down? Mexicans and Bill Gates' tax rate."
But, of course, Trump supporters don't care about issues. If Trump and Breitbart said the big problem was squelched farts, they'd be at Trump rallies chanting, "RELEASE THE FARTS! RELEASE THE FARTS!" As long as Trump is coyly racist and pisses liberals off, Trump supporters will be happy. That's why it's pointless to try and win those votes with, you know, actual policies aimed at helping the middle class. |
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Hm.
The folks I have sympathy for are the folks in rural areas that are struggling. For instance, the folks in West Virginia or Kentucky that were thinking "He's going to bring back coal jobs!" Their anger is misplaced, but I do understand. Anyone else, no sympathy. |
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It's a tough phrasing of the issue. I do have a great deal of sympathy for folks in that situation and it's absurd that we don't have a stronger support system for them in this country.
But I have no sympathy for their inability to recognize that the lack of relief over previous 8 years was due to Republican obstruction of any and all efforts at stimulating the economy and providing them support. If their assessment of the problem is that we need to cut taxes for the rich and get rid of the few programs that provide them health care and other necessary resources, my sympathy - in so far as that reasoning goes - is nil. I grew up around these mysterious white Trump people. I went to the same school. We had a library in town. Being ********** over by the economy is not an excuse for being pig-ignorant. |
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Yeah, that is true, and I don't want to say that they're correct. I've said this before, even though I got a Masters in engineering - I got lucky. And so are they. I'm trying to say "yeah, bad vote...but I do get where you're coming from."
But compare to that woman who voted for Trump, even though her husband was an illegal immigrant. I feel bad for her husband, and definitely for their children. I think we can agree, having your father get yolked up by ICE is no good. But for her? None at all. |
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No need to sympathize. It's just like Christians. Had to live around them ny whole life.
Exception: Trump voters and Republicans tolerated and found common ground with among closest family, our kid's spouses and so on. |
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If Trump didn't realize he was going to face a lot of opposition, he's even dumber than I thought.
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