I don’t understand. Women voting for trump

I did the same for my uncle and his wife. I just saw a pic of them with my parents in Italy, and he's sporting a trump hat. I hope he doesn't put my parents in danger. One of the things they always told us was to not wear anything political.

Someone I know in Iowa told me the farmers believe in trump more because he doesn’t regulate what the use on their crops while the democrats are trying to outlaw some of the chemicals and make it more expensive to farm. When you look at this one point maybe I can see it.

But also I think a lot of people are selfish and truly believe in a bootstraps mentality. They think that the democrats are recklessly spending on “welfare queens” and that everyone should be forced to work like they do. I am not saying I believe this but I do think this is a component of the voting block.

And I have family that’s single issue voters in the Midwest. Their issue is abortion. Meanwhile they can’t afford their medication and they don’t have retirement savings. And they think it’s too expensive to have kids and pay for daycare. I do not get it at all.

I hate to say it, but the woman I know personally that have told me they are voting for Trump said their husband is voting that way & told them they should too, so they are. It’s like they don’t have a mind of their own and just do what their husband says.

I can give people a pass for voting for him in 2016 but by now, if they don’t know who he is it’s because they don’t want to know.  They may seem nice but I am a little skeptical about how good people they are.

There are areas where the Catholics are very conservative. My mom’s extended family (South Dakota) are mostly Catholic Trump voters. Huge base of very conservative Catholics in Nebraska where I grew up as well.

I agree with all of the above.

The Catholics I know that are the most devout churchgoers (DH’s friends, they go to mass every Wed and Saturday, all the holy days, volunteer there weekly, etc.) are pretty closed minded, bigoted people. The disconnect is so weird. I get really uncomfortable when they start talking about people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ, etc. etc. This from a couple whose first kid was born when they were 16/18 respectively, and their own DD had a child before she was married too. But you know, at least they’re not brown or gay. 🙄

I don’t take into account gender or race. I look at the candidates’ platforms and cast my vote based on that. Why would a white man vote for Trump just because he’s a white man?

It's not really Trump's race or gender that we and the majority of women in this country have an objection to.  For me personally, I could never vote for someone who is responsible for appointing conservative justices who overturned Roe v Wade.  I could never vote for someone who brags about grabbing women by the pus&y and someone who committed sexual assault.  I object to his platform as well.  There are a million and one other reasons I would never support him or vote for him, but those are my reasons as a woman and why it's difficult to understand why other women support him.

I totally hear what you’re saying. I was recently at an event with a couple of my more conservative friends and while we didn’t specifically talk about politics I could tell from some of their comments in passing that they must both be Trump supporters. Both of them have teenage or younger daughters and both of them live in Texas. One of them has a 20 yo son that just married his high school girlfriend. The other also has a college aged son whose girlfriend recently decided to drop out of college because “she really just wants to marry my son and be a wife and mother, and you don’t need a college degree for that.” 😳🙄 She expects they will be engaged before the end of the year.

Yeah, because nothing tragic ever happens to married very young women who immediately have a bunch of kids. 🙄 I really, really wanted to say something to the effect of it’s always good for women to be educated and have job skills they can fall back on if life doesn’t go to plan, but I knew it would fall on deaf ears. My own mom was widowed at age 50 with three kids under 18 still at home. I have a friend who had a similar situation where her DH tragically passed leaving her a widow with four kids under 15 when she was in her late 30’s, so it does happen along with all kinds of other not ideal situations where the woman has to unexpectedly step up to be the breadwinner of the family. It’s so shortsighted to think that in the world as it is today in 2024, women shouldn’t also have marketable skills.

His "money" and power are attractive to people. He may not have a lot of cash, but he does carry himself around like he does, and he has powerful and rich friends. He is still part of an elite circle. 

Right? People change, marriages end, people get sick and become disabled.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen this scenario just in my local mom's FB group: mom of multiple kids begging for some work she can do at home. Dad either left, was injured, or got sick and can't work. She has no marketable skills and can't afford daycare on what she can make in retail or other similar jobs.

Everyone needs to be able to support themselves if it becomes necessary. The tradwife dream currently being pushed by the religious right (you don't need college or job training! your only job is to be a wife and mother!) is a recipe for disaster for so many families.

Women need job skills and we need to be able to control our own bodies. Anything less and we are not fully equal citizens. And to get back to the OP - women who vote for Trump are casting a vote to be a second-class citizen. Makes no sense at all. The whole idea that we should be happy for men to protect and support us, or worse, for Trump to protect us, infantilizes women and makes a mockery of the last hundred years of progress.

We will vote for Trump because we are all smarter than you and really do not want to led by a pathetic do nothing.