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Originally Posted by Starter986
Thanks, Man. Nothing you shared seems extraordinarily out of order and, even to this political plebe, makes sense. I appreciate your candor (even though I may yank your chain on occasion).
So... why do you believe the American public is enamored with Trump? I don't agree with his every position... but I admire his tell it like it is, no BS, approach... I think Dems call it lying 
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I have a secretary at work who lives in a part of the city that's dangerous and she's not from there originally. She ended up there in late middle age. She's got serious health problems and is not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare so she needs to keep working through her illnesses to keep her health insurance. She lives alone and from what I hear her ex-husband left her deep in debt without any financial support before he died. She is a rabid Trump supporter. She drives cross country to his rallies. Shes not a racist, bigot, homophobic or any of that ignorance. but shes also not very informed. She is big on infowars, Alex Jones, Qanon aka the deep state conspiracy and believes every single word out of Trump's mouth. When he's caught lying like with paying off the porno stars she says it wasn't a lie.
So I dont argue with her. You're never going to get a believer to question their choices. My one coworker is like why does she believe him? I said do you remember the OJ Simpson verdict and how people cheered the acquittal of an obvious killer? Those people weren't cheering for him they were cheering that a bad guy got one over on a bad system. They are angry about "the rigged system" and never question their own life's choices. Even years later many still will not admit that OJ was an ego driven sociopath that killed two people and destroyed the families. Doing so would force them to doubt themselves and maybe realize they had a lot to do with their own failures and how they put their faith in a lying con artist. like Mark Twain said famously "it's easier to fool someone than to convince them that they have been fooled."
At this point the only people who dont think Trump is a con artist who has been living off his father's trust fund for 50 years are the 30% of stone cold believers. The other 7% simply see him as a necessary evil because without those 30% of the voters they'd never win an election for President. Since 1988 the GOP have scored only a single 51% majority of the vote. The 2018 midterms was an 8% defeat of the national vote the biggest margin in midterm election history. It's Trump it or leave it.