Post by wrongwayfeldman on Oct 22, 2024 14:48:12 GMT
When trump won way back when, there was an article published, an Op Ed I believe, perhaps in the Washington Post or the NYT, that I would love to read again. You can imagine how difficult it is to search a specific piece with his name in the title as there are just too many.
The writer had such an interesting take on why they believed he captured so many votes. It centered around the concept of people considered to be at the bottom rung of the ladder, those that were marginalized in some way, mostly through poverty, and how trump was able to reassure them that even though they had it pretty bad, at least they weren't queer. Or black. And basically, by stepping on those other marginalized communities, they were lifting themselves up a bit higher. It made me sick to my stomach, but I agree with the writer on how trump was able to capitalize on the prejudices of those people. In my community, a little blue dot in a very red state, I see people that are barely scraping by. No health care, no dental care, no jobs, living on assistance, multiple kids, extreme poverty, domestic violence and clear child neglect in their homes, living in filth-yet they worship trump. They think he's going to fix it all. And they have one more thing in common: rebel flags in their yard or in the back of their shitty, broken vehicles, and screaming about the gays that they hate.
I truly believe that there's a correlation there. They have it bad. And they know it. But at least they're not a minority and at least they're not queer. And those are the kinds of people that trump targeted in those early days.
Just to be clear, I hate trump with everything I have. And I have a lot of resentment for the people that voted for him back then, even those that have changed their minds. They participated in a lot of damage to our country and they should pay for the choice they made. It was clear as day the damage he planned to inflict, and the people that voted for him should be actively working to un-do that vote through reformations of some kind, the least of which should be educating others as a way to take accountability for their participation in his hate. But that's a post for another day.
The writer of the article I read explained this phenomenon much more eloquently than I have here, and had researched based information to accompany his opinions. I'd love to re-read that piece, but I can't figure out how to find it.
Any suggestions?
The writer had such an interesting take on why they believed he captured so many votes. It centered around the concept of people considered to be at the bottom rung of the ladder, those that were marginalized in some way, mostly through poverty, and how trump was able to reassure them that even though they had it pretty bad, at least they weren't queer. Or black. And basically, by stepping on those other marginalized communities, they were lifting themselves up a bit higher. It made me sick to my stomach, but I agree with the writer on how trump was able to capitalize on the prejudices of those people. In my community, a little blue dot in a very red state, I see people that are barely scraping by. No health care, no dental care, no jobs, living on assistance, multiple kids, extreme poverty, domestic violence and clear child neglect in their homes, living in filth-yet they worship trump. They think he's going to fix it all. And they have one more thing in common: rebel flags in their yard or in the back of their shitty, broken vehicles, and screaming about the gays that they hate.
I truly believe that there's a correlation there. They have it bad. And they know it. But at least they're not a minority and at least they're not queer. And those are the kinds of people that trump targeted in those early days.
Just to be clear, I hate trump with everything I have. And I have a lot of resentment for the people that voted for him back then, even those that have changed their minds. They participated in a lot of damage to our country and they should pay for the choice they made. It was clear as day the damage he planned to inflict, and the people that voted for him should be actively working to un-do that vote through reformations of some kind, the least of which should be educating others as a way to take accountability for their participation in his hate. But that's a post for another day.
The writer of the article I read explained this phenomenon much more eloquently than I have here, and had researched based information to accompany his opinions. I'd love to re-read that piece, but I can't figure out how to find it.
Any suggestions?
