Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President
by thefalcon on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:05PM
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The message was directed towards those without a college education; I see college as a place where people are encouraged to develop their critical thinking skills. If you have underdeveloped critical thinking skills then you'll be more easily persuaded by unrealistic policy proposals that sound like what you want to hear.
I sometimes feel the democratic party uses similar tactics on under-educated minorities; Trump seems to be the first to have the gall to overtly use them to unabashedly target under-educated white males - and to great success.
Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President
by Turing_Machine on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:50PM
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"Part of my surprise is that that bigotry is not a deal breaker"
You have to remember that the other side has spent the last 30 or 40 years calling those guys toothless, ignorant sister-screwing yokels.
Maybe they're tired of only one side being permitted to call people vile names?
I do think there was quite a lot of bigotry. In particular, I think the campaign repeatedly conflated Muslims with terrorists (to the point that a religious test for immigration was suggested). The candidate also said a number of things that could be construed as misogynistic, though I'm the first to admit that all of this "locker room talk" is probably as much the product of insecure posturing as it is a formulation of any particular view towards women per se--a product of a child-mind exposed to a misogynistic culture, not of a misogynist.
Part of my surprise is that that bigotry is not a deal breaker, as I said in reply to a different comment. Part of my surprise is that the electorate did not detect the unrealistic nature of the policy proposals (such as they are).