I agree, Trump supporters are not just the poor. I believe his support comes mostly from people that are strongly influenced by the media. If you were an ardent follower of the news media last summer, with all the forest fires and homes being burn, you might well conclude we're living a hell called global warming. Likewise if you paid attention to the news media last winter, you might well might conclude global warming is nonsense and we are going into an ice age. The news media not only exaggerates everything, but it repeats stories over, and over, and over which makes them even more important in the minds of viewers.I'm sure Hillary would have no problem debating the issues with Trump. However, his inability to do so made it impossible. From almost the beginning of his campaign, he started launching personal attacks toward Hillary, leaders in his own party, Muslims, Hispanics, Blacks, Women, the disabled, every president back to LBJ, and a long list of public figures. People in this country want someone that will fight for them, not some blowhard that get's a perverse pleasure out of name calling and verbal jousting. This is not courage. This is a deep seated mental problem that can cause huge problems for the nation.Sure right after Hillary tried to shame him in the first debate.After the first debate, Trump admits he didn't go after her family. He will probably do so in the second debate in lieu of actually debating anything of any importance. I think in the second debate, Donald is going to show America just how mentally unbalanced he really is.My prediction is trump insults hillary so bad in the second debate, he takes a huge hit for it and hillary skips debating the nut for a 3rd time and have him rant and rave like Hitler all the way to election day.
You folks make me laugh
It's scary to know 45% of Americans want to blow up the current political and economic system we have going on. And it's not even the poor. It's the middle class tea baggers and libertarians.
So is it successful people or losers who want to blow up the status quo? It seems the people who want to blow up the status quo are not the people living in poverty.
I think the GOP are victims of their own rhetoric. They've been saying the sky is falling for so long that they can't admit that actually, things are looking pretty good right now.
But it's an election year so it's to be expected.
This over attention and exaggeration by the media and the media's ever increasing need to make stories more sensational, have convinced ten's of millions of voters that this country is going to the dogs. Politicians are all incompetent crooks or idiots, the government is hiding the truth about everything, and the condition of the American people is at an all time low. Of course this is nonsense, but millions believe it. These people are easy pickings for Trump because the media has already laid the groundwork. For people that take the news media with a grain of salt, Trump's claims seem silly.
I agree with everything you just said. I really do. In the “old days”, you had 3 channels, some independent channels on the UHF band on the TV and that was about it. At 6 and 10, the news came on and you would get a 30 minute dose of what happened in the nation that was wrong; i.e.. nobody cares when a dog bites a man; only when a man bites a dog does it make news. So the other 23 hours a day, you were not being bombarded with around the clock negativity.
Now you are. And the result is that the media has laid the groundwork for someone who says the same things. Just like you said.
But here is where I differ. There was no shortage of negativity from the right wing this year. What Trump did was entertain the masses. Lewis Black would have gotten the same number of votes. There are no intellectual defectors to Trump from other ideologies or philosophies. He energizes people by continuously telling them what they want to hear, validating their prejudices and ignorant hatreds, and, above all else, being funny in their eyes with school yard antics and jejune childlike policies that are destined to fail if anyone was foolish enough to ever try them.