I will tell you why I threw myself behind Trump, and why I think others did:
1. President Obama confused the national and cultural identity of our country. Instead of accepting that the US is a culturally Western country, he tried to make it multicultural.
2. Law enforcement crumbled under Obama. During riots and protests, even ones that involved, not only damage of property, but even assault of civilians, police were ALWAYS told to stand down. I thought maybe Trump would put some backbone into the riot police again.
3. The universities and their liberal propaganda are having a hugely negative impact on our society. Social justice warriors ranting and raving about "white males," "manterrupting," "mansplaining," "check your privilege," and "you're not allowed to speak because you're white/male" has created a culture of progressive authoritarianism in our country that needs to be nipped in the bud.
4. There was no sense of patriotism under Obama. American history (from 1607 till now) is a lost study that nobody seems to know anymore. The only thing people are taught about our history now is that our founders were "genocidal slave-owners," as opposed to being taught the great things about Jamestown, Plymouth, the American Revolution, our rolls in both world wars, and our heroes like Washington, Lincoln and Eisenhower.
5. There has been a huge wave of "refugees" across the West that is largely made up of military-aged males. Terrorist attacks, riots, sexual assaults and lack of cultural assimilation have taken place wherever these "refugees" have gone. It also seems like these "refugees" are deliberately trying to infiltrate the west to establish a majority, so they can rule the world under their religion. That would not seem too far-fetched to me.
These are the reasons I *chose* to vote for Trump. I was mind-controlled into doing so.
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dlancer (2036)
6 years ago
Spoken like a true sycophant.
And why is it that everyone with a proper name on this board has a low amount of posts, has the same obtuse way of thinking, and has the same lackluster vocabulary to express it? Tom, Craig, John, Randall, and now Wesley. My god, the odds...
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eYeDEF (5050)
6 years ago
1. You'll need to better define what you're even talking about with Obama rejecting Western culture. This sounds absurd to me.
2. I could find no legitimate reference to Obama ever ordering police to "always stand down". I found this article explaining why many on the right claimed he hated cops, with dubious assumptions made. But absolutely nothing in the way of ordering police to "stand down".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/08/why-so-many-critics-of-president-obama-insist-that-he-hates-police-officers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e482eaa107f1
3. I agree 100% about the problems on some college campuses.
4. Oh really? So have you analyzed school history curriculum and determined the only thing taught in history class is that our founders were "genocidal slave owners"? Sorry, but that's such an outrageous claim that I can't help but assume some right wing propagandist pushed that fiction on you and told you what to think.
5. You could only make that case in Europe. In the US study after study has demonstrated illegals commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens.
https://www.businessinsider.com/undocumented-aliens-violent-crime-murder-statistics-data-2018-8
So based on the bullet points of what you just told me, at least 3 but maybe 4 of the reasons you gave for why you voted Trump don't appear to be grounded in reality. They look to be what Trump or some propagandist told you to think, which I'm sorry to say, confirms my point. I wish it wasn't so.
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McQualude (4231)
6 years ago
You voted for Trump because you were manipulated into feeling it was the lesser of two evils. Basically you were told to do it so you did it. All these justifications are right propaganda, they come from internet memes.
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dteam6 (5073)
6 years ago
1. Bullsh!t and you know it.
2. Same exact things have and are happening under Trump.
3. True to an extent, I'll give you that. However, the right wing side is equally as bad with their "Let's ban gays, make America Christian only, deport all immigrants, "western" culture only, Alt-Right, etc". Takes two to tango and both are guilty in this area in various ways.
4. No sense of patriotism? What does that even mean? And you say that as if you think Trump is showing it. I'm sorry, but telling the world two murdering dictators are "great guys that I love", slamming our intelligence agencies at a Russian summit and telling the world that you trust and enemy foreign government more than our own intelligence sure doesn't seem patriotic in my mind. Dividing the nation, slamming the other party, giving speeches that encourage divide rather than union--none of that seems "patriotic" in my mind.
And funny how you bring up "teaching" when Trump is taking every measure possible to defund our already-underfunded educational system and encouraging the uneducated to remain uneducated.
5. How many terror attacks have occurred in the US these past few years? How many? Now, how many mass shootings conducted by our own citizens have occurred? I'll wait for your answer.
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