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2016-09-11 Home Front: Politix

“Trump the savior”? – Regrettably, that is true

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-11 07:39|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.”
Many years ago, a friend pointed out to me that what a person says about others, usually tells you more about the speaker than about those spoken about.
I have found myself, that I lack a power than many people claim to have: I have no way to reach into someone else’s brain and determine motives for their behavior or their statements. This is particularly true about people whom I have never met, and have never even heard from.

To assign motives to people before even meeting them or listening to them is to prejudge them. That is, it is to judge them before having any grounds to do so. Since the syllable ‘pre-‘signifies ‘before’, judging people in this way is the exact meaning of the phrase: ‘prejudging them’. The act of prejudging others is usually called prejudice.
Thus the speaker of the comment above has exhibited prejudice against supporters of Trump, They support him, or half of them do, she claims, not because they find Mrs. Clinton untrustworthy, nor because they object to her plans to grow government power, nor for her support of racist movements and violent protestors, nor in reaction to attacks on free speech by her supporters, nor for fear of the quality of her appointments as president, nor in reaction to the disastrous consequences of her term as secretary of state, nor for her apparent greed, nor for her apparent arrogance in acting as if laws are only for common folk and do not apply to her, nor because of her apparent frail health which may affect her brain, but because they are racist sexist homophobic xenophobic Islamaphobic, you name it.
We should have a name for this type of prejudice. Perhaps Americaphobia would describe it best.
I wonder, is it possible that half the supporters of Mrs. Clinton in this race are Americaphobic? I very much doubt that, but she has given us clear evidence that she is.
I cannot know whether she actually is Americaphobic, but it may well be.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-09-11 11:08|| 2016-09-11 11:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Well typed Gris S. Enough meat for seconds.

Posted by Shipman 2016-09-11 12:11|| 2016-09-11 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Duplicate deleted.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-11 12:13|| 2016-09-11 12:13|| Front Page Top

#4 ...the conversion from the founding principles of the free-market economy and small government to a huge all-intrusive government and heavily regulated economy.

I'm pretty sure we're halfway there.

Posted by Raj 2016-09-11 13:52|| 2016-09-11 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I fear the ratcheting effect, Trump can probably set things on track again for a short while, stave off financial doom, realign the political parties a bit if he does things right, but the hard left will never come together with the rest of the country.

Since the far left controls the schools and thus can perpetuate their numbers through brainwashing I'm not sure what can be done to fix things long term.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-11 21:24|| 2016-09-11 21:24|| Front Page Top

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