JimBowie1958
Old Fogey
- Sep 25, 2011
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I have known a great many people involved in politics for an amateur. These are some people that I personally know who have decided to support Trump and who have shocked me with that support. Of course I am not using their real names.
Bill worked in factories all his life and lost his job a few months before he was eligible to retire. As I understand it, his employer helped him to get disability from Social Security for his back, and so even though he has only one quarter of his previous income, he is loathe to take them to court or he believes he could lose his disability. Bill watched his employer hire more and more illegals over the decades he worked at the plant, and told me when he left the place was 90% illegal labor, the few Americans were in the management roles. He became a Trump supporter from the day Trump announced. He thinks Trump will start to enforce existing immigration law and there will be more jobs available for native Americans.
Lucy was an employer at a large manufacturer back in the 80s till her part of the F16 production was moved to Mexico. Despite her vast experience at her job, she had a hard time finding work, till finally she got a job doing her old job in a minority owned company at less than half the pay. She is a proud yellow dog Democrat, but she is voting for Trump this election. She says she has had enough of companies screwing over American workers.
Caroline spent five years getting her degree and graduated with honors. She could have double majored but she wanted to leave school and get a job. Despite having the highest grades in her graduating department student body, she is still trying to get a job and working at an insurance company as a claims handler. It infuriates her that 75% of entry level jobs in her specialty are taken by people on guest worker programs and that less than half her fellow American STEM grads have found jobs in STEM fields. She is hesitant to support Trump publicly, but she tells me she is going to vote for him.
Henry was planning on working through college part time. But he had to quit for a while because his current employer has him working 8 hours straight without a break and he is too exhausted to handle a course load. His employer threatens to fire anyone on a daily basis, so his job hunt is covert and selective. He has seen people fired when it was found out that they were applying for jobs with other companies. He thinks the job market will improve under Trump, but he figures its a last shot for the workers of America. He says the kind of sweatshop management he has to deal with is growing more popular in the US as unions lose their clout.
Janice got raped years ago and her family coerced her into having an abortion. She thinks something went wrong in the procedure because she hasnt been able to have any children since. She thinks much of what was good about American culture is being lost because of unassimilated populations within the US. She believes the exBF that raped her was a foreigner, but she couldnt be sure because so many of them lie about their nationality. She says the US needs to take a short break on immigration so that the current immigrants here can assimilate into the population. I asked how long and she said, 'Maybe a couple of centuries?'
Terry's fiance was killed when an illegal sideswiped him while her fiance was riding his motorcycle. The illegal ran off and was never found. He had been arrested before and was believed to have returned to Mexico. She was baffled that our government couldnt keep the criminals out of the country and blames the government for her fiances death. She secretly supports Trump but wont tell her friends as she now has a lesbian GF and knows it would be a scandal for her.
Micheal is a truck driver and he has had plenty of work, but he is sick of the rising political class that thinks it can lie to the American people and get away with it if they have establishment ties. He loved Clinton and like Bush until the Iraq invasion. He lost faith in Obama when he started reading about the Quantitative Easing program where Obama let Wall Street banks get $4 TRILLION in hand outs, while the public 'got fucked.' He is supporting Trump instead of Sanders because he thinks Sanders cannot win, and he says if Trump only shuts down the corporate tax loopholes it will be worth it.
And all of them refuse to even discuss any other candidates. They hate the establishment as much or more than I do, but they think trump will bring about a revolution in politics that will force the establishment to break away from corporate donors. Some of that is naive, but it is their right to think so.
In the end what truly matters is that they are powering a revolution and will not be distracted by the antics of the literati whining about made up attacks on the Pope, immigrants or anything else they might pull. They recognize that the literati are paid by corporate owners and the people mean nothing to them any more.
Bill worked in factories all his life and lost his job a few months before he was eligible to retire. As I understand it, his employer helped him to get disability from Social Security for his back, and so even though he has only one quarter of his previous income, he is loathe to take them to court or he believes he could lose his disability. Bill watched his employer hire more and more illegals over the decades he worked at the plant, and told me when he left the place was 90% illegal labor, the few Americans were in the management roles. He became a Trump supporter from the day Trump announced. He thinks Trump will start to enforce existing immigration law and there will be more jobs available for native Americans.
Lucy was an employer at a large manufacturer back in the 80s till her part of the F16 production was moved to Mexico. Despite her vast experience at her job, she had a hard time finding work, till finally she got a job doing her old job in a minority owned company at less than half the pay. She is a proud yellow dog Democrat, but she is voting for Trump this election. She says she has had enough of companies screwing over American workers.
Caroline spent five years getting her degree and graduated with honors. She could have double majored but she wanted to leave school and get a job. Despite having the highest grades in her graduating department student body, she is still trying to get a job and working at an insurance company as a claims handler. It infuriates her that 75% of entry level jobs in her specialty are taken by people on guest worker programs and that less than half her fellow American STEM grads have found jobs in STEM fields. She is hesitant to support Trump publicly, but she tells me she is going to vote for him.
Henry was planning on working through college part time. But he had to quit for a while because his current employer has him working 8 hours straight without a break and he is too exhausted to handle a course load. His employer threatens to fire anyone on a daily basis, so his job hunt is covert and selective. He has seen people fired when it was found out that they were applying for jobs with other companies. He thinks the job market will improve under Trump, but he figures its a last shot for the workers of America. He says the kind of sweatshop management he has to deal with is growing more popular in the US as unions lose their clout.
Janice got raped years ago and her family coerced her into having an abortion. She thinks something went wrong in the procedure because she hasnt been able to have any children since. She thinks much of what was good about American culture is being lost because of unassimilated populations within the US. She believes the exBF that raped her was a foreigner, but she couldnt be sure because so many of them lie about their nationality. She says the US needs to take a short break on immigration so that the current immigrants here can assimilate into the population. I asked how long and she said, 'Maybe a couple of centuries?'
Terry's fiance was killed when an illegal sideswiped him while her fiance was riding his motorcycle. The illegal ran off and was never found. He had been arrested before and was believed to have returned to Mexico. She was baffled that our government couldnt keep the criminals out of the country and blames the government for her fiances death. She secretly supports Trump but wont tell her friends as she now has a lesbian GF and knows it would be a scandal for her.
Micheal is a truck driver and he has had plenty of work, but he is sick of the rising political class that thinks it can lie to the American people and get away with it if they have establishment ties. He loved Clinton and like Bush until the Iraq invasion. He lost faith in Obama when he started reading about the Quantitative Easing program where Obama let Wall Street banks get $4 TRILLION in hand outs, while the public 'got fucked.' He is supporting Trump instead of Sanders because he thinks Sanders cannot win, and he says if Trump only shuts down the corporate tax loopholes it will be worth it.
And all of them refuse to even discuss any other candidates. They hate the establishment as much or more than I do, but they think trump will bring about a revolution in politics that will force the establishment to break away from corporate donors. Some of that is naive, but it is their right to think so.
In the end what truly matters is that they are powering a revolution and will not be distracted by the antics of the literati whining about made up attacks on the Pope, immigrants or anything else they might pull. They recognize that the literati are paid by corporate owners and the people mean nothing to them any more.
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