Posted on 10/06/2016 7:48:28 PM PDT by Lorianne
I talked at length with a Trump supporter I grew up around. I wanted to understand. I respected her growing up. I wanted to know why a person as kind and compassionate as I remember her is voting for someone like Donald Trump.
She was a family friend, a good person. In rural Ohio, everything was tight. Money, jobs. If you really needed quick cash, she’d put you to work doing landscaping. She’d pay fairly and reliably for the area.
She’s voting for Donald Trump. I disagree with her choice, but I understand why she rejects Clinton so fiercely, and why she’s been swept up in Donald Trump’s particular brand of right-wing populism. I feel that on the left, it’s increasingly easy to ignore these people, to disregard them, to write them off as racists, bigots, or uneducated. I think that’s a loss for everyone involved, and that sometimes listening can help you to at least understand why a person is making the choices they make, so you can work on the root causes. For her, the root cause isn’t racism. In fact, I remember her as one of the only people in the area who proudly hired black workers, in a place where that was a huge issue. She fought over that choice.
She’s a person who built her business from the ground up. She wasn’t rich, but was very comfortable for the area. She had a nice house, a nice car, and was stable. She achieved the American dream of not having to struggle. Things changed during the housing crisis. A landscaping business requires customers who need landscaping, and people who don’t own homes just don’t need landscaping. In some of these neighborhoods, one in five people lost their homes. That almost immediately turns a successful landscaping business into a struggling one.
Then there was a domino effect. She couldn’t pay for her lawn-care equipment leases and loans. That hurt her work efficiency. Then, she lost her car. But that didn’t stop the payments. Then, she lost her house. She slowly had to let go all of her employees, until it was just her, hand-mowing lawns for cash the way you might expect a high school student in the summertime.
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HA HA!
this Libtard practically writes an essay on why the Dems have failed! ha
The low turnout will KILL her this election.
Likely. In my younger days I answered “likely” and embarrassingly slept through the elections.
You cant trust a 20 something when they say “likely to vote”.
They’re just words.
Trump voters ARE likely to vote
Multiply that by millions. And how could there possibly be a worse candidate than Hillary, anyway?
She should start hiring a lot of liberals to do a lot of work and not pay them, saying it is the New Normal pay with 100% taxes withdrawn as required under the Democrat executive order.
> “Things changed during the housing crisis. A landscaping business requires customers who need landscaping, and people who don’t own homes just don’t need landscaping. In some of these neighborhoods, one in five people lost their homes. That almost immediately turns a successful landscaping business into a struggling one ... She couldn’t pay for her lawn-care equipment leases and loans. That hurt her work efficiency. Then, she lost her car. But that didn’t stop the payments. Then, she lost her house. She slowly had to let go all of her employees, until it was just her, hand-mowing lawns for cash the way you might expect a high school student in the summertime”
All of which occurred under Monsieur Obamala ...
And he wonders why people would vote for Donald.
And what a high-handed, arrogant ass the author is.
got the Jr right.
“For her, the root cause isn’t racism.” Apparently, this is supposed to be an anomaly among Trump voters.
David A Hill Jr
Feminist. Game Dev. Narrative Designer. Gamer. Proponent of radical empathy.
No, she didn't build that business. Dear Leader told us "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." July 13, 2012 https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia The writer is going to need a trip to the re-education camps for dishonoring Dear Leader.
David A Hill Jr
Pillow Biter. Quivering Mound of Estrogen. Faggot.
Whatever happened to that fragile flower columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle? Remember him? Mark Morford? This guy is a Morford wannabe.
I went to the Site and got a headache reading the responses.
She wins, we are finished with people like that being emboldened. Useful Idiots, the lot of them.
Even people who sell food stuffs at the farmers market depend on people being able to spend a bit more for fresh produce.
When those people are just scrapping by they shop at the mega-low mart rather then buying your lovingly raised tomatoes.
People who use to buy books, new and used, now go to libraries and borrow them for free.
And she does it so condescendingly.
Yeah, that’s the irony...ha.
Ha..arrogant AND Stupid...what a lethal combo! :-)
Always nice to have someone who thinks she is morally superior analyze you. (did not read)
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