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steve  ·  3201 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can some explain to me why would anyone vote for Trump?

If you're a member of a formerly majority group who is disenfranchised by a crappy economy and shrinking middle class.... (in other words - you're white person who's parents may have had it better than you do) and you're mad as hell about it...

and you want to blame people with skin that is shades of brown darker than yours...

and you want to be able to "speak your mind" without repercussions (in other words say racists and misogynist things without being called out for it)...

and you want to blame politicians who seem to have buggered everything up...

and you're not educated enough to know any better...

and you don't understand what the office of the presidency is REALLY about...

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and there's a dude yelling:

IT'S OKAY TO BE MAD! I'M MAD TOO!

IT'S OKAY TO DEMEAN WOMEN! I'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS!

IT'S OKAY TO HATE ALL "MEXICANS" (even though he means all people of latin decent, and likely all people of skin browner than his)

I'VE GOT A GREAT PLAN

I'VE GOT YOOGE PLANS.

I'm not saying I like it... but there's a YOOGE population of people who are just. that. dumb.