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.
SNIP
"Increasingly easy"?
Liberal slander is so extreme, so casual, and so utterly indefensible.
They literally have no morality at all.
I remember that guy. Haven’t seen anything from him in a while.
Sad state of affairs where we’re turning out so many of these girly guys. I try not to think about it. Then, I see some guy who looks like a chick with a neck beard admonishing someone for ‘assuming someone’s gender’ on the internet and I’m forced to again...ugh...lol
I think this is the takeaway paragraph. Little old David A Hill Jr. is quite the wannabe mind-f***er. He wants to paint a realistic, emotional portrayal of a potential Trump voter, while bashing Hillary, to try to convince Trump to turn into Romney.
It's the last ditch effort of Hillary's minions - the cry for Trump to play nice, be comfy. And, of course, lose the fire that's brought him this far.
Don't do it, Donald. This is FICTION. Your supporters LIKE your fire - they're DEPENDING on it. Don't be fooled by these oily wormed whisperers.
>> And what a high-handed, arrogant ass the author is.
The irony of imperiousness...
“David A Hill Jr
Feminist. Game Dev. Narrative Designer. Gamer. Proponent of radical empathy.”
Wow, you really can’t make this stuff up.
Indeed, the Obama years would not be if the GOP did not produce unmotivated lame a$$ holes like Romney of Jeb. The low turn out is why we
keep
losing elections
“Proponent of radical empathy.”
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This jackass doesn’t seem to understand that empathy means to suffer with someone, not to try to manipulate or lord your superiority over them.
I like the way you think. What do you think of the term “pathological empathy.”
This cretin has absolutely no clue. Just yet another fragile snowflake who lives in his own little Candy Land world.
I’ve had it with these useless morons.
Brainless liberal, one each.
This is a 100% contrived story, made up in an attempt to explain why there is support for Trump and then to marginalize the support by casting doubt on the reasoning behind that support.
Ironic - understands why a sane person who contributes to society would vote Trump, but can’t do so personally....
I like the way you think. What do you think of the term “pathological empathy.”
It doesn’t have the syncopation of “nicitating membrane,”
but it’s alright.
How about “pathempathy”?
Or “empathological”?
isn't that why she lost her car? Because she wasn't making the payments?
Never trust a Lib’s report of a conservative..they just don’t understand basic economics. ha
How can a country survive if half the country thinks the other half are non human and "deplorable"?
The answer is it can't. Secession is coming after the inevitable economic collapse.
The issues that divide the USA are deeper and more fundamental than in 1860.
the author:
“David A Hill Jr
Feminist. Game Dev. Narrative Designer. Gamer. Proponent of radical empathy.”
And proves that Libs have to lie to make their points. But we already knew that.
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