biochem wrote:WeirdlyWired wrote:
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Same economic fears that gave rise to the Knights of the White Camelia and Ku Klux Klan in the 1870s. the resurgence of the Klan in the 1930s, the flight of White Southerners from the Democrat Party in the 1950s to the Dixiecrat party to the Republican party in the 80s an 90s.
I guess maybe its the bible story of the workers in the vinyard. The guys working since sun-up groussed because the guys that started that afternoon got the same pay.
Its a zero sum game and the more people get rights or freedoms or job opportunities is less for me and mine.
So many ways to answer that question
Same
And this rant is going to persuade Rust Belt swing voters to vote for your candidate, how?????
Many, not all, of these people are low education (high school diploma and less) medium to high skilled labor. Their families spent generations working in the factories, earning a decent to good living. The economic world has been shifting under them, the political/legal world has been shifting under them. They look around and their white, christian, eurocentric society is being sold out to minorities from all over the world, no telling how many here illegally, wanting to replace "our" laws with sharia law, blow us up in our churches or at our shopping malls. The Democrats trying to take our guns away and leave us defenseless.
Along comes trump, defying Political Correctness, saying things the other politicians refuse to say, being blasted by everybody in the media for daring to say it. Addressing our fears, promising to help us bring back our jobs, our religious values, our racial heritage that created this country. Make Government work for us to create jobs for us, not export them for no return.
Yes pandering to their fears, even sharing them. Humans make decisions based on emotion, not logic. Goering nailed it back in the 1930s and he was not the first. Pander to their fears and they will follow you anywhere.
Helas,chou, Je m'en fache.