2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf you knowingly vote for someone who is a racist, sexist, and xenophobic, that means
you have no problem with those views
liberal N proud
(60,951 posts)Many of them, hold those views close.
It is really that simple.
QC
(26,371 posts)I voted for such a candidate in 2008 and 2012. I think most of us here did.
still_one
(96,572 posts)make choices who would be more open to change, and civil rights.
but of course that wasn't an issue with this election was it?
However, trump made racism, sexism, and xenophobia an issue, and he
made no bones about his racist, sexist, and xenophobic views, so yes, those who were aware of those views who voted for trump did NOT have a problem with those views.
As for your point regarding President Obama, it wasn't as clear as you would like to portray. His position on that subject changed back and forth through the years, between civil unions and full marriage rights, but one thing he was always consistent on, civil rights for gay couples, that included hospital visitation, transfer of property and Social Security benefits.
"In 1996, as he ran for Illinois state Senate, Chicagos Outlines gay newspaper asked candidates to fill out a questionnaire. Tracy Baim, the co-founder and publisher of Outlines, dug up a copy of the questionnaire in 2009, cataloging the president-elects shift.
He had written on the 1996 questionnaire, "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/11/barack-obama/president-barack-obamas-shift-gay-marriage/
Racism, sexism, and xenophobia was an issue this election, because one of the candidates ran on that, so those who voted for that candidate obviously had no problem with it. There was no middle ground, and his team appointments reinforce that view.
but it isn't only that, he made it clear who he would appoint to the Supreme Court, and that itself confirmed his views on civil rights, deregulation, and women's rights.
People who voted for trump knew exactly where he stood, and they had no problem with it
SidDithers
(44,269 posts)Sid
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The one for-sure Trump voter I know told me earlier this year that she didn't like Trump or Clinton. I'm not in a particularly forgiving mood, but there were more than three possible issues that mattered to voters.
NRQ891
(217 posts)in 1950, having Senator Joe McCarthy call you a 'Communist', a 'communist sympathizer', a 'fellow traveler', or 'soft on communism', meant that your career was over
by 1954, having him call you that meant that you disagreed with anything he ever said or did, ever. Those words were considered 'Bully Boilerplate'