y va marquer wrote:
goon wrote:
If you have a strong reason not to vote for Hilary by all means don't vote for her but I don't think that's any excuse to vote for Trump. Hell, lets say that as much as 10% of those who voted for Trump were in super special circumstances that meant they absolutely had to vote for him despite being deploring most of what he stands for, that would still leave approximately 55m hateful arseholes.
I've seen many people who voted for Trump interviewed and if you subtract the fanatical fringe many of those whom I saw were nowhere near being the "hateful arsehole" caricature.
Personally I don't know how anyone could justify voting for a man who boasts about using his position of power to abuse people.
I have family and friends in US but none voted for him so it's difficult to get beyond superficial reasons.
I've thought about it a lot, particularly about why any woman could vote for him after hearing his private thoughts laid bare.
The only conclusions that I come to is that a large percentage of those women see that kind of treatment as normal (which is disturbing) or that many just don't take what he said as being serious, they fell for the harmless "locker room banter" spiel.
I'm pretty sure most women who voted for him genuinely don't care about his misogynism. They saw someone who spoke directly to their feelings of being left behind by the rest of the country, in particular those in big cities on both coasts, and who promised to attack those who are responsible for it, i.e. his talk of draining Wall Street and the Washington swamp. They viewed him as one of theirs who'd attack the establishment, which the latter proved in their minds when they were constantly attacking him via the media.
When the alternative was Hillary who was establishment personified, who didn't even acknowledge the rift that has gone through the country, it was probably easy to pick especially when she started attacking those who were possibly still hesitant on who to vote for.
