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Divided by Meaning: Clinton & Trump voters
Posted on 2/16/17 at 7:56 am
Posted on 2/16/17 at 7:56 am
Great insight into the liberal "mind"...
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We are a divided country, split along race and class. We are also divided by education. Front row kids, many with post graduate degrees, versus the rest. The front row kids and minorities overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton. A large percentage of everyone else supports Trump. The front row kids can’t understand why anyone would support Trump, often saying anyone who does is just dumb.
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The front row kids (who live in big cities and university towns) primarily find meaning through their careers, and hence through their education. It defines who they are. Their community, and their neighborhoods, are global. They moved towns often for their careers.
The back row primarily finds meaning through their local community, and its institutions like church and sports. They live in places they have long lived in, and their families have lived in. They didn’t leave for education, didn’t leave for jobs.
This is often by choice, many want to stay close to family, but it also because some have had to. Many had to stay to care for sick family, or because they fell behind early. Some had difficult childhoods. Grew up in a place that offered little chances at an elite education.
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Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:12 am to Palmetto08
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But his racism, his anti-globalism, isn’t just a salve for the angry. It is a one two punch. He is also mocking the front row kids. His crudeness is throwing spitballs at the front row kids.
Here is the thing I want to hammer on. When the front row (me, you, pundits, politicians) call Trumps voters, the back row, stupid. Or dumb. Or idiots. When we scold them for supporting such an awful man (he is!). That plays right into everything they have been told all of their lives.
Being called stupid, being told they can’t keep up, is why many of them feel and are stuck in their towns. Why many of them are humiliated and angry. Why many want revenge. Why many are ripe to follow a racist like Trump.
Nobody wants a life that feels meaningless. Everybody wants to feel a valuable member of something bigger than themselves. Calling Trump voters deplorable (some are!) will only make them angrier, and only increase their humiliation. That will just make all of this stuff worse.
Article was going good up until the end. It's like the left can not write an informative piece without interjection their own prejudice
Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:29 am to mylsuhat
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But his racism, his anti-globalism, isn’t just a salve for the angry. It is a one two punch. He is also mocking the front row kids. His crudeness is throwing spitballs at the front row kids.
It's because Trump is a "front row kid." He grew up going to the best schools, the big charity events, meeting with the big politicians, etc. and he saw how phony and smug they are. From all accounts he has always cared about the "back row kids" that worked for him, even when he never had to encounter them if he chose not to. I don't think he is some benevolent leader, but he saw, and I think for a long time, that it wasn't these people who made America great, it was the blue collar workers in the Rust Belt and in the South, and his campaign was run perfectly giving them the chance to voice their opinion for the first time in decades.
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 8:30 am
Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:34 am to lionward2014
Simply put, the working class of america was tired of the Left's social politics. 95% of people couldn't care less about color, race, sex, etc., as long as they can provide for their families
Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:38 am to Palmetto08
Pretty accurate.
Signed,
Back row kid that voted for Hillary
Signed,
Back row kid that voted for Hillary
Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:39 am to mylsuhat
It was funny, being a kid in the 90's I was taught that the Democrats were the party for the "working class," but somewhere around 2004 that started to change, and by 2008 listening to the "fundamentally changing America" talk there were no more even pretending that the Democrats stood for those people anymore.
Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:45 am to Palmetto08
You carefully selected those passages eh
Posted on 2/16/17 at 8:55 am to Palmetto08
more of the manipulated data - post graduate degrees in what discipline? The split between STEM and liberal arts would be massive.
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