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[–]HopeThatHalps 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are a lot of uneducated, low information voters in this country who want a strong man xenophobe to make them feel safe. At least sixty million. The fact that he gets a large crowd is more unfortunate than impressive.

The media generally never shows the crowds at any political event, the cameras are always faced forward at the podium. There's almost never any journalistic question, or value, as to the crowd size. We're supposed to be listening to the what the politician has to say, regardless of the physical turnout. If too much hay is made of crowd sizes, politicians will be inclined to avoid constituencies where a large crowd isn't assured, and that's not good for democracy. Trump and the Republicans get a lot of mileage with their base by portraying themselves as victims.

[–]James_Kuhn3rd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nonsense.. About as true as is the vast majority of those who didn't vote for trump are overeducated socialists or communists that see state control as an effective means to control their less educated, non coastal uncontrolled middle of nowhere hillbillies who refuse to comply.

There are racists in every group. Believing you can't be racist or bigoted because you bask in a monoculture of diversity is simply a denial of truth.

I'm sure there are racist and xenophobic members of trumps base, but I'm equally aware I see them when I see them chanting Margaret Sanger themes and preaching that stopping abortion mills is a terrible blight for people of color and the economically depressed.

I'm not sure why the democrats haven't figured out it's probably far easier to bribe these groups with free college and healthcare for life in exchange for being spayed/neutered at a pre pubescent age, they're already experimenting with hormone therapies, at least give them something for it.

Back on topic, It's ironic we only get shown the one type of low information voter meme that gets hammered a lot, the country racist bumkins, three teeth and a straw toothpick. It's not cool to show the other, you know the Obama phone toting folks, who vote Democrat for generally the same reasons the guy with three teeth votes Republican, but no one can mention any other stereotypes..

Regardless, There's a lot of data that suggests controlling our borders is worth it.. https://cis.org/Report/Cost-Border-Wall-vs-Cost-Illegal-Immigration

There's also many folks who think if you don't control who comes into your country, you don't really have a country. It's not just xenophobes. I dunno, I have doors and locks on my house, that doesn't make me some phobe...

I'm personally of the opinion that we should eliminate barriers to entry for everyone. This would allow law enforcement to focus on human trafficking, drugs and other serious crimes. Anyone could come in and work, just check in at the door and let them do a background check. The caveat is that those individuals could never receive welfare of any kind for as long as they live here, and upon application, should be given a welfare plane ticket to their country of origin. Then again, I'm generally against welfare in general, since it's just state sponsored theft, but I know you guys love it, keeps the base's happy.

Additionally, a recent UPenn study found there was less racism under the 2 years of the DT administration.

Likewise these "xenophobic tendencies" are the same tendencies/policies that democrats such as JFK and Bill Clinton espoused, almost to a t. It just that you guys have moved so far left.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/pew-research-center-study-shows-that-democrats-have-shifted-to-the-extreme-left/