Guest Post from a Trump voter in Battleground Florida
The economic and ethnic and gender and educational differences among voters appear to explain why about half of Americans are voting for Hillary Clinton and half for Donald Trump. But decisions are not made by groups or demographic segments. They are made by individual humans.
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| Robert Guyer |
[One again, this is where I need to insert this explanation. My goal is to understand this election, not to persuade people to vote my way. This has helped me see the strengths and weaknesses of candidates because I have been attempting to describe political craft, not my political preferences. I voted for Hillary, but I recognize that about half of my countrymen will end up voting for Trump, the other half for Hillary. I want to understand why. I publish this not because I agree but because people need to hear his perspective.]
Guest Post by Robert Guyer
(Robert Guyer is an attorney. He founded The Lobby School, an organization which trains citizens how to be more effecting in influencing legislation at the state level. Its website is www.thelobbyschool.com)
I live in a university town where local Ds run unopposed, yet I haven't seen
the first Hillary yard sign, while Trump signs - at least on public rightsof way - are common. "Down ticket" signs abound for Rs and Ds. In this town it's brave to display a home Trump sign - a Trump-supporting MD's home recently was "tagged" with spray-painted swastikas. The Pew Research Center reports that 66% of college educated Clinton backers have a hard time respecting Trump supporters while that number for Trump backers (same cohort) is 40% toward Clinton supporters. (Pew 2016)Publicly mentioning Trump favorably is not worth the backlash in a D-run liberal university town. Thankfully, we vote in secret.
The negatives of both and President Obama need not be rehashed here.
Coherent policy discussion is lost amid name-calling. President Obama names men as sexist not voting for Hillary and Hillary says Trump doesn't accept
women as fully human, as evinced especially by Trump's unknowingly taped
"when you're a star" chatter from 11 years ago. Trump's own name-calling
"Crooked Hillary" now looks prescient, if inadvertently so, in light of
Wikileaks, the FBI and the NYPD reportedly copying Weiner's laptop before
giving it to the FBI. There are state laws to enforce even if DOJ won't.
More than themselves Trump and Sec. Clinton represent class-based conflict.
Sec. Clinton promises to be Obama's 3rd term and Trump promises radical
reformation. She represents Goldman Sachs-Sharpton-Bushes-Kennedys-MSM-BLM,
the elites allied with their dependents. The elites accumulate wealth while
they expand "victim certificates du jour" and small financial incentives and
status to those who stay or become a victim. The deal has been working for
them for 50 years.
Trump's views threaten the way it is and those who profit from keeping it
so. While the NYT slams Trump for putting America first, that sounds good to
those not having had a raise for 10 years and seeing jobs going to Mexico.
Hillary promises to put real fossil fuel workers out of work based upon
unprovable worst-case speculations from General Circulation Models of
anthropogenic global warming that typify the adage "If you torture the data
(model) long enough it will tell you want you want to hear." - and you can
get federal research dollars. The MSM mocks Trump's "Make America Great
Again" although President Reagan used a similar campaign slogan. "Drain the
swamp" appeals to those appalled by Congress' "too big too fail" and the
DOJ's "too big to nail." Even a cursory view of Islam's core beliefs
explains Churchill's comment that "No stronger retrograde force exists in
the world." (The River War, 1899) While illegal immigration may lower wages
and get Democrats voters, the National Border Control Council, the voice of
17000 Border Patrol agents, says "...the fact that people are more upset
about Mr. Trump's tone than the destruction wrought by open borders tells us
everything we need to know about the corruption in Washington."
Hillary is beholden to the elites and the poor and the same old-same old.
Trump makes a lot of common-folk, plain talking, good sense to those paying
the bills. Trump is beholden to none while he advocates for the working and
middle classes - and those too afraid to speak out. I'm with Trump.
2 comments:
First, I love this blog. Discovered a couple months ago and now a daily Must Read.
Second, I've never been affiliated with either major party ~~ nor a minor one. But this is about as brilliant (not including your blog, of course) a paragraph as I've read in a long long while.
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More than themselves Trump and Sec. Clinton represent class-based conflict.
Sec. Clinton promises to be Obama's 3rd term and Trump promises radical
reformation. She represents Goldman Sachs-Sharpton-Bushes-Kennedys-MSM-BLM,
the elites allied with their dependents. The elites accumulate wealth while
they expand "victim certificates du jour" and small financial incentives and
status to those who stay or become a victim. The deal has been working for
them for 50 years."
Especially the last two sentences.
Anyone who votes for Trump must accept the responsibility for whatever Trump does. I hope they're prepared to do that. Trump is not the type to listen to his advisors. So, nobody knows what he will do. Probably not even Trump himself, yet. Will he heal the country or further divide us? Trump has inspired hate and violence throughout his campaign. Will that continue? What will the rest of the world think of us? He probably doesn't care. When he doesn't get his way, will he flip out? Will he have an enemy's list? With him, anything can happen. The next four years, if he wins, might be the most interesting time in history. Either way, good luck to us.
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