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Libs need to understand that calling out the hypocrisies of Trump supporters does fuck-all. Not only do they do not care, they get off on triggering the libs in this way. They’re not the least bit interested in facts or consistency; they’re interested in getting their guy in office.
People need to understand that showing that you care about these things is all they need to feel you're "triggered." They don't care, and being able to be a hypocrite and make you angry is them exhibiting power over you. They don't have any power in this world, but at their core, they are people driven by a hunger for power, and so they turn to shit like being unrepentant hypocrites to exert power over others. They viscerally want a response where liberals are upset, because it's the only thing that shows them they have power over anything. They want to feel like they have an impact on the world, and since they're pathetic fucking losers otherwise, the only way to accomplish that is by being such a fucking piece of shit that everyone is upset with you.
Like everything with these people, it's about power. Actually, if we ignored their attempts to piss us off with their hypocrisy, they would get bored, because we wouldn't be giving them the attention they want and showing them that they have power over our emotional state by upsetting us by being garbage fucking people. (It's why they get bored with echo chambers like Gab and Truth Social and Twitter, they have no power if they're not upsetting others.) It's literally all they have going in their lives and they don't give a fuck how pathetic they are or how pathetic it makes them look, because it's all about the power they hold over others.
EDIT: Final note, do not underestimate their obsession with power and its impacts.
I mean, they do, that’s why ensuring that there are more votes to oppose their fascist leader than they themselves can drop in favor of their fascist leader is incredibly important. You shouldn’t engage with them, but you should sure as fuck ensure that your vote matters in the fight against them.
Agreed. Everyone thinks trump supporters are gullible when majority of them are intentionally malicious.
Trump’s real power base has never been the white working class “basket of deplorables”:
The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs
I'm not really sure I buy this meaning they're really affluent corporate types. I've met a lot of Trump supporters who own big properties out in the country, who own big trucks, and who work jobs in trades. Stuff like plumbers and carpenters and mechanics. I mean hell, in my state, the average pay for plumbers is $80,000 a year, and yep, a lot of those people are self-employed. Last I checked the trades is where all the folks who struggled in school go...
So, does this really mean they aren't who we think they are? All the people I'm referring to were dumb as fuck country fucking bumpkins who needed a swift kick in the ass. All they've really gotten "invested" is a house on a big valuable piece of land, a little bit of stock on the market (maybe), and a bunch of physical items that add up to them being "wealthy" even though two of the trucks don't work, the tractor is falling apart, and so is the barn, and so on. On paper, they're wealthy, in person, they're still missing some fucking teeth.
Oh yeah, and the obsession with guns... Guns ain't cheap... These people piss away a lot of money on useless stuff.
You just described the exact same people the article described, so I don’t know where you’re getting “really affluent corporate types” from.
So now self-employed plumbers and mechanics aren't working class? The point is the article is trying to paint them as more affluent and influential than they often are in reality. Most of the mechanics and plumbers I know don't pull a lot of sway with city council.
These people don't know who the living fuck Horatio Alger is, and if they did, they'd rightly call him a pedophile and be angling for his lynching.
These aren't the people who read books or are really "affluent." If you're missing teeth and half the shit you own is broken down because you piss all your money away on alcohol, scratch tickets, guns, and other adult toys, you're not affluent, you're just an idiot with just enough money to keep making bad decisions for a while.
Not people who read Horatio Alger, people who Horatio Alger stories were about.
Working class meaning people who work hourly/salary, as opposed to petite bourgeoisie, meaning the self-employed & small business owners.