You guys don't get it: the rust belt working class want to be TOLD, not reasoned with [View all]

[LaydeeBug]

I have lived here all my life.

If you ask anyone who voted for Trump around here WHY they did it, they will say FIRST, "Hillary was going to take away my guns"

After that, labor workers with a small number of employees are seeing documented workers get incentives to which they are not entitled, and turn around to take undocumented workers and skirt the taxes the white labor worker pays. I *get* that undocumented workers pay tax, but they don't pay INCOME tax, and Saint Reagan taught them that it isn't fair for them not to...but it *is* hunky dorey for someone who is extremely wealthy to do it.

The dichotomy I referred to in that last paragraph gets to the crux of the matter: These people want a class system, as long as THEY don't feel like they're at the bottom of it. They *want* to bow to someone "greater" than them. They want to *believe* there are some greater than them.

And they are racist.

They aren't overtly racist, they've learned to couch the term 'nigger' and only say it when there are only white people around; (<<<-------- I defy *any* white person who grew up in a blue collar neighborhood to *try* and tell me that isn't the case.) but you'd better have a picture of someone in a white hood with a flaming cross for them to believe someone is, and even then, it's probably photo shopped, because minorities "get everything".

They don't want to be reasoned with. They want to be TOLD. They *love* cock sure. Seriously. They *love* John Wayne, pilgrim. They want to be told to sit down and shut up, as long as they think that accomplishes some spiteful end (and I mean *any* spite nugget) they'll get behind it.

I can't convince any of these people to buy the Brooklyn Bridge...but you can best believe I can get them to agree to PAY for it, ten times over if I just tell them we will keep the "others" away. We will keep the n-words out. We will keep those Muslim terrorists out.

You want no fly, no buy? Show them a commercial where a Muslim cleric getting off a plane, walking into a gun store buys a gun and then walks into a movie theatre and cut to black, and the sounds of shots firing. That kind of basic, primal shit resonates with them.

They don't want to have to THINK about it. They just want someone who is cocksure and will 'get 'er done'. They don't give a shit about bathrooms, other than they were TOLD to be outraged, so they are.

They don't give a shit about those emails, other than they were TOLD to be outraged, so they are.

They don't give a shit about how things work either. These are binary thinkers. They like it concise that way. Wrap it in the flag, tell them if they were real Americans, they'd...(insert it here) and if they're not outraged, they're stupid little pussies.

They also don't give a shit about what WE think. They don't think, because they like to be TOLD WHAT to think, instead of taught HOW to think. It's the meeting of "low information voters" meets the "spite entitlement" I've been coining for so long.

If you doubt it, just ask yourself the question I have been asking since the night of Melania Trump's speech at the RNC: WHERE IS MELANIA TRUMP'S SPEECHWRITER?. <<<<----- They don't care. They were told that isn't a big deal.

What about the Trump Foundation? <<<<------ They don't care. They were told the Clinton Foundation took money from Qatar. They were TOLD that's a bigger infraction, and so therefore it is.

Facts don't *matter* to them, because it is hard for them to discern a fact from an opinion. Really. Truly. This is not new.

They don't want to be reasoned with...they want to be TOLD.