Political entertainment media requires conflict

to sell advertising. Good vs evil, red vs blue, dem vs pub, etc...It's bad enough that regular everyday people consume that shid and take it as truth, but it's infected a majority of our elected officials with Trump being representative of the worst of those. Lie, cheat, steal all for your cause/team; human decency has taken a backseat in the governing of our country.

If you are a "Ha ha liberals/pubs are so stoopid!" kinda person...you are the problem and you are electing greater problems.

If you've ever played football, or any competitive sport for that matter...after bashing heads and getting beat up for 60 minutes did you go talk shid to your opponent after the game? 99% of the time, no. If you're a real competitor, you shake the guys hand afterwards and tell him good game. Here's the kicker, politics isn't even a competition...we're all on the same team.

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They don't really understand the definitions, that's why

Apr 30, 2019, 3:44 PM

Trumpies simply parrot what their Orange Savior, Fox, Breitbart, etc. have told them about libruhls and "libtards" because they can't really take time to read up on real definitions or understand political ideology. To them, anyone--and I mean anyone--who opposed them is a "liberal" because they're too dumb to grasp higher thinking. Infowars and Breitbart tell them that the opposition to Trump is extreme left, so they just believe it. There really is great science behind how people like this will parrot higher authority out of fear or hate regardless of what's true.

What they fail to realize is the following:

1. Trump has been a New York Democrat most of his life. In fact, he was officially registered as one from 2001 to 2009. He told Wolf Blitzer in a 2004 interview that he identified most with Democrats, citing, "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans." Do most men in their 60s have a complete political ideological shift? No. They don't.

2. Trump is pro choice. He always has been. He still is. He stated it publicly multiple times. Do people change their abortion stances? Of course. But it doesn't come easily. Usually personal experiences create a shift, not a sudden political ideological shift. Generally, having children can swing a pro-choice person to pro-life. But Trump already had kids when he was pro-choice. His abortion stance conveniently changed right before he ran for president.

3. There is little evidence he is religious. This also became a thing right before he ran for office.

4. Trump's economic policies clearly oppose traditional conservative philosophy, and they are policies that the GOP previously would have balked at. Well, many in the GOP still have.

5. Traditional, staunch conservatives have opposed Trump. This is evidence enough that opposition to him has nothing to do with being liberal.

6. Trump is a master showman and deceiver. He ran a fake reality show and used to appear on pro wrestling. He knows how to lie to and manipulate an audience, generally a collectively dumb one (yeah, pro wrestling fans, that's you if you're still watching past age 13), to get them to cheer him on.

7. He was close friends with the Clintons before the election. After the election, he magically abandoned his threats to pursue criminal action against Hillary Clinton. Convenient.

8. Trump embraces big, centralized, authoritarian government. He has actively worked (usually unsuccessfully) to override the nation's system of checks and balances.

9. Trump's economic plans call for increased spending. Very conservative.

10. Oh, did I forget that over his life, he's pumped money into Democratic campaigns?

Ask yourself when was the last time you encountered a man in his 60s and 70s who had a complete political ideological shift from one end of the spectrum to the other. Not likely, huh? Unless maybe some type of brain injury.

Trump's transition from liberal to supposed conservative is so outrageous, it almost gives credence to the conspiracy theory that he really is a Dem plant to destroy the GOP from the inside. And with the way it's going, he sure seems to be doing that. I think that conspiracy is a bit much, but lawd knows I'm always down for some good tinfoil headgear.

So why do hardline Trumpies embrace him and think he's a conservative? Simple. I've said many times before, many who voted for Trump simply held their nose and voted against Hillary. That makes sense. You can't fault them. Many of them cited some other economic differences between him and Hilldog. Fair enough.

The hardline Trumpies are the ones who supported him before the primary. And there was only one thing Trump was selling that the other GOP guys weren't: hate and fear towards immigrants. That's it. And in their mind, that equaled conservative.

So what we have is a man who has been a charlatan leftist used to fooling the dumb masses on TV, and now he found a way to do it to get into the White House (assuming he even wanted to be there). Only a fool would actually buy that and think him a true conservative.

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Why do trumpsters use the term liberal in such a derogatory way

Huge difference in liberal now as to what it once was.

Conservative = fascist/racist and Liberal = Communist

Re: Why do trumpsters use the term liberal in such a derogatory way

And they would say that you'be been brainwashed

I wouldn't say that.

Re: I wouldn't say that.

Is that how you came up with this theory?

Re: And they would say that you'be been brainwashed

Really, though...who can blame FOX when it works?

Re: Really, though...who can blame FOX when it works?

I can't believe Fox said there was no collusion.

Re: I can't believe Fox said there was no collusion.

That was a response to Fox and brainwashing.

Re: That was a response to Fox and brainwashing.

Those who only want to hear what pleases them are children.

and conservative is suck a boring word

"maximum individual liberty"? LOL

Re: "maximum individual liberty"? LOL

Well there it is in a nutshell.

Re: Well there it is in a nutshell.

Re: Well there it is in a nutshell.

Cause libbie = fascist***

I used it in a derogatory way when Bill Clinton was Pres.

Why would you call Trump that?

Do I do that?***

"maximum individual liberty" - Is that the same as saying

They don't really understand the definitions, that's why

Hyperbole much?***

Bet ya can't refute a single one of those.***

It's rhetoric which delights you and some other dems

Re: It's rhetoric which delights you and some other dems

I don't use religion anymore than color or gender to...

Lol! That is awesome! “Hey, why do you guys have a problem with the Swastika!?!”

Bernie doesn't seem that "modern" to me.

Re: Bernie doesn't seem that "modern" to me.

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