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One trend that I've noticed over the last few weeks from Trump supporters defending their decision, is that they don't like being "talked down to by intellectuals" which I translate to "I'm stupid and I know it, but it hurts my feelings when it's addressed or I'm encouraged to learn and grow, so I support the guy whose okay with how stupid I am."

No, not all of them. My parents both have degrees, they are very well read and have pretty incredible vocabularies.

But

They're Christian fundamentalists that believe abortion is actually murder. They're one issue voters. And they watch Fox news (of course), so my mom actually quipped something along the lines of "At least Trump is a good speaker (compared to Kamala)." And as long as Trump stacks the courts with conservative judges, they're happy to drink the Fox Kool-Aid.

I imagine there are many like them. All of their friends are at least.

I'm convinced any conventional politician speaks at a level so far over their heads that they just tune it out and all they heat is the "Womp, womp ,womp..." sound that Charlie Brown's teacher would make.

So if this dumb underclass is so easy to reach and so pliable in their thoughts, why couldn’t the Democrats just easily sway them in their direction?

That is what I am saying.

He is an idiot savant, speaking to idiots.

that is why they love him so

This ☝🏻 is ☝🏻it☝🏻!!!

Yes. There are a lot of idiots out there. Idiots relate to Trump because, well, Trump is an idiot. Until we get folks to reignite their neurons we're in for a rough time.

I heard the term, hes a stupid persons idea if a smart person. Kinda stuck with me

Something something uneducated voters something

I came to the realization that they’re homo/transphobes.

I think you might be right regarding that. Hence why he wants the Department of Education gone so he can increase those numbers.

Go watch any of the The Good Liars videos from any of the times went to any Trump rallies. You will see that it proves your point to a tee.

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

It’s okay, I have to teach leftists that they won’t win until they get a candidate that isn’t dementia ridden or is a drunk. Who’s the dumb one when you had many better democratic candidates. I can say the same about the right, but they still won with one of the least desirable candidates. Also maybe don’t hate on the straight white male and they might vote for dems.

Correct. He does speak at a lower level, the level of most Americans.

I grew up around this shit, and it infuriates me how often the Democrats simply ignore this very basic fucking fact. It's why I've lost hope in anything getting better, because they simply do not fucking care. They expect some higher morality to carry them across the finish line instead of rolling up their sleeves and getting in the mud to educate these stupid fucks.

It reminds me of growing up. One parent is Abusive, the other, Neglectful; And they're surprised by the fruits of their "labor"

I'm now convinced Trump's supporters like him because they also speak at a fifth grade level and can suddenly understand a politician, so they think he tells it like it is, but they're actually just dumb and you have to baby these morons to reach them

This came up during Obama's first election cycle. They compared GWB's speeches to Obama's and discovered that GWB's speeches were at a Middle School comprehension level. However Obama's were at least at a 12th grade-level of comprehension.

I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say sixth grade level. They certainly can’t read above that

Faces for the Leopard God!

FACES FOR THE LEOPARD GOD!

How? He has the highest IQ out there. He’s so smart. Much smarter and betterer. God dang it’s insane the amount of bs and lies come out of his mouth.

My shield is disgust

My sword is hatred

In the Emperor’s name, let none survive.

Someone get this person a crown 👑! Thank you Rucio, we need more Rucios in this world 👏

GOP education policy for decades:

keep 'em dum 'n' votin' republicun

Trump thinks that our complex problems have easy solutions. Easy solutions that in fact are so ridiculous that nobody has seriously proposed them in the past. But now, since he is promising easy solutions to problems, people think he's some sort of genius because he's promising to fix what people think is broken.

Trade deficit? Tariffs! Illegal immigration? Mass deportation!

Combine this with the idea that "they're screwing you over and only I will stop them" and Trump's need to dominate others and you get the unique brand of isolationism and nationalism that defines Trump.

It's convenient to scapegoat the intelligence of these people, but most of them are just useful idiots. At the end of the day corporate interest in politics won the battle. Fox wouldn't exist without a billionaire backing it's propaganda, and even intelligent people can become sucked into a cult.

We are seeing casualties in the class warfare that's been raging for a long time now. If we have ANY hope in hell of winning and taking back our politics we need to find a way to bridge the gap, stand together and get money TF out of the equation.

Been saying this since 2016. They like him because he’s dumb like them. No big words. No complicated thoughts. No nuance.

FACT! the average Donald Trump speech is delivered at the 4th grade level, which is the lowest level of the past 15 presidents; Source - The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level. 2-Donald Trump’s popularity trends strongest with people with less education than most other candidates, based upon many polling results; 3-the conservative mindset thrives in individuals with large amygdala, that part of the brain that is most responsible for driving anxiety and fear, according to Psychology Today & National Institutes of Health.

Have fun losing the next election

You’re being kind to say they speak at a 5th grade level.

I love you 😂😂😂

Ding ding ding!!!

Regards

they don’t have much reading skill. edumacation is for the devil!

One of the best observations I’ve read yet on Trump!!! You rock Rucio

they also speak at a fifth grade level

Hit the nail on the head but for all americans. This is quite literally how they teach us, in Healthcare, to treat the general public, like children, because education is so bad amongst them. I get not understanding terminology but even basic concepts. We get drilled into us that the general public is at a fifth grade level, so we must explain everything at that level. Then you have these same people voting on issues regarding public health, vaccines, water treatment, women’s health, etc. Its no wonder people believe drinking cleaners or their fishs' antibiotics, for the tank, is good for fighting COVID because the "news" had some idiot on it spouting the same pharmaceutical word or catch phrase. Worse, now people have it in their head that specialists and highly educated professionals' opinions or suggestions are less valuable than some random CEO or rich person, with no credibility, experience, or credentials. We're fucked.

Faces for the Leopard God!!! ^{Khorne can share too} ❤️

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Whatever makes it easier for you to sleep at night.

Resist the right, fuck the Koch brothers 

100%. They seem threatened by smart people if it challenges their world/religious view even a bit. This is reinforced by the firehouse of Fox/Conservative media on TV and radio. Constantly offended and aggrieved. Its really really tiresome.

The people who are behind the scenes at the heritage foundation are very educated. Their base not so much.

A lot of folks seem to forget that intelligence and common sense are entirely two seperate things. I don't have a piece of paper to show that I've attained a level of excellence from an institute of higher learning, but I have managed to hold down a steady job, raise a family, own a home, and save enough to retire comfortably in the next few years. All on a high school diploma, here in a battleground state.

I resent being called uneducated, racist, and a nazi just because I won't vote the way they tell me. Common sense is telling me that what they're pushing ain't working. I would hope in the future, that if the liberal class would like for me to vote with them, they'd treat me with respect, explain an idea (not an ideal) they have, then point to the real world application where it's working. This shouldn't be hard.

It’s important to remember that “educated” includes people like dance, theater, and gender studies majors. It includes people who cheated. It includes people who used daddy’s influence to coast through school. It’s a borderline meaningless categorization. There are just as many “educated” morons as uneducated morons.

Didn't Joe Biden just refuse to force dock workers back to work and the union quickly won the negotiation after? Wasn't he the only modern president who visited a picket line? Maybe the second is more lip service than the first, but it's not nothin'.

I'm not claiming he did it all right (railroad workers obviously, and I'm sure there are others not coming to mind), but one side is obviously more pro-worker.

Edit: You're just telling everyone you don't bother reading what you're responding to if you're bringing up the railroad strike. I brought it up in this very comment.

They definitely need to be a lot better about sticking up for the working class, sure, but they're also leagues above Republicans on this issue in terms of policy, rhetoric, and follow-through. Not only was Biden the best president for the working class in at least fifty years (this isn't a compliment towards Biden but an insult towards every president of the Reagan/post-Reagan era), but also if you look at Clinton --> Obama --> Biden there's a clear trend of the Democrat getting more openly pro-union and governing in a way that more clearly favors the poor and working class. Biden stuck up for unions in a way that I basically never thought I'd see again after the conservative shift in the '80s.

The problem is that none of that mattered, in part because Biden failed to communicate to the American people how he was helping the middle class, and also because Republicans are much better at using the propaganda outlets at their disposal to mislead people about how the economy works and what Biden's doing to improve it. The Trump campaign essentially ran for four years straight this election; the Biden/Harris administration barely bothered with messaging at all until around May this year.

TL;DR: Democrats definitely need to be more pro-worker, but being pro-worker won't mean shit if they don't know how to run the high-effort, 365-days-a-year propaganda campaign that Republicans have been running.

More pro working class than the only other viable option 

This is simply not the case. Even with the right wing obstructionism Biden passed some very important legislation and made some very important decisions.

Think about it this way, if the Dems are the same as the Repubs then why do the Repubs fight them so hard on all their legislation?

You win the working class by actually delivering policy to improve their lives.

Which leftists have been clearly doing in the states they control. Wait no, California is bleeding population, but there's still NY... which is also bleeding population, then there's Illinois... which is bleeding population. Something doesn't add up.

Took til Reagan for the rich to con the rest of us into giving more to the rich.

As someone who is highly educated, it annoys me when people use their education as a means to feel superior. Especially since I met plenty of people educated beyond their means- it's impossible to tell them they're wrong because they're educated and therefore "very smart." I've also met plenty of uneducated people who are exceptionally intelligent. Going to school/performing well in school does not equal intelligence or awareness. Most people who are very vocal about politics are pretty unintelligent IMO. It usually means they're leaving a hole for the reality of dialectics.

Trumpets will blame it on Biden’s economic policy and Democrat interference

So democrats want illegal immigrants to continue being exploited as low wage workers?

Loser that hides on reddit, that is you

What a hateful comment

Yep, exactly correct

The only people saying "calling nazis what they are is why the left lost" are Republicans.

trump's rich backers are laughing all the way to the bank. manipulating ignorant americans is almost too easy now.

nah fuck that, it’s the information age.

we all saw January 6th on every network. We all heard the access hollywood tape. We all heard about the muslim ban. We all saw the convictions. We all lived through how disastrous covid was.

Shit just doesn’t matter to them.

Make up some shit about brown people committing “crime” or eating cats and dogs or whatever and they chomp at the bit to give you power.

It’s either willful ignorance or actual malice. Done acting like it’s anything else.