Mars wrote:
I wouldn't know how the MSM casts Trump supporters, I don't indulge in it. I'm talking about how I, and everyone I know casts Trump supporters. There are a few rare exceptions, I'll grant you that. But the question doesn't change regardless of if you call Trump supporters angry/fringe or uppercrust/socially elite. The question remains the same. Would you vote for this hypothetical pairing or not.
Uneducated
Poor
Angry
White
The one thing about Donald Trump you can take to the bank - all the kings horses and all the kings and all the political pundits have been wrong in their assessments and and predictions about Trump. Repeatedly wrong, wrong, wrong. I would simply urge caution before using liberal propaganda talking points to disparage the peoples GOP presumptive nominee and his supporters. Remember, those Trump supporters are GOP folks. Do we really want to look down our noses and demean them?
Uneducated - Is your definition of "uneducated" not having a college education? A lot of good, hard working people don't have college degrees. A lot of our Founding Fathers lacked formal education (George Washington). Are you disparaging our Founding Fathers? How about Joseph Smith? He lacked formal education also.
Poor - Making less than ? Are you sure?
Angry - ? About what? Is that anger justified?
White - This wrong? At what point did being born white become inherently immoral?
So, being a blue collar worker, not having a college education, being white, and upset that the federal govt. has forgotten them - is bad? Our Founding Fathers were white, many lacked college educations (George Washington had no college, and they were upset with how their govt. (England) was performing and treating them.
As a matter of fact - our federal govt. leaders today are far more educated than our Founding Fathers. Yet out national leaders today underperform at a tragic rate.
Sorry - you're buying into the Dimocrat and MSM myths about Trump and his supporters. Sad.
The reality is -
1. True, blue collar workers do make up a large part of Trump's coalition (not a bad thing to be supported by hard working, tax paying Americans). But, Trump is also doing very well with GOP folks who have college degrees. In 6 of the primaries, Trump has been #1 with college educated voters. #2 in 6 other primaries with with college degree voters. And only fell out of the top 2 spots with college educated voters in Oklahoma.
2. The average Trump supporter makes $72,000 a year. Solidly middle class.
"With some careful statistical work, Silver shows that the family income of the typical Trump voter is $72,000."
http://time.com/money/4318531/trump-middle-class-voters/3. Angry? Perhaps justifiably so -
"The voters who made Trump happen arenât, by and large, those who have been chewed up and spit out by the death of factory jobs. They are people who thought theyâd met the requirements for success in the contemporary economy, and still find themselves losing ground.
This became especially clear to me reporting for Money.com on the controversy over visas for foreign tech workers. One of the most prominent voices in that debate was a former Disney programmer named Leo Perrero, who was laid off from his job when Disney hired cheaper foreign replacement workers.
Perrero, a Trump supporter who spoke at Trumpâs rallies in Florida and Alabama, looks on paper like just the kind of person who should be reasonably successful. He has a college degree, a background in technology, and lives in Orlando, Fla., a growing metro area. And yet what the economy has dealt him has been largely humiliationâa sense of shame from being fired and replaced, an experience he painfully detailed in Congressional testimony."
http://time.com/money/4318531/trump-middle-class-voters/More on those "uneducated" Trump supporters -
"Now incomes for those who did get an education have stayed flat for some 15 years. The college degree was once the bright line divider between those with prospects and those without. No longer.
If we really want to understand how Trump came to win the nomination, thatâs a key economic fact to wrestle with. For much of the primary season, Trump was dismissed as the candidate of the deeply disaffected and uneducated. As the campaign season went on, that became less and less supportable. In many states from Super Tuesday onwards, Trump won handily among GOP voters with college degrees. Blue collar workers may have made up Trumpâs most devoted supporters, but it took a lot of $70,000-a-year professionals to get him to Cleveland."
http://time.com/money/4318531/trump-middle-class-voters/More on those "angry" Trump supporters -
"Trumpâs appeal is certainly strongest for those who feel like their expectations have been disappointed, their hopes circumscribed, and their financial state made precariousâpeople who feel shame that they donât have the money to retire or to support their families. The hard part to get your head around is how much of the middle class that turns out to be."
http://time.com/money/4318531/trump-middle-class-voters/
