Posted on 09/02/2018 11:56:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
I am sure you have tried just like I have. Every time you make a point based on facts it does not matter – you are shot down. It does not matter what good is being done or who has benefited. You will never convince them there is redemption. He could cure cancer, create world peace or jump into a fire and save a relative of theirs; but, still no salvation. There will be no acceptance and no atonement. He is a lost cause and convincing them otherwise is like nailing jello to a tree.
This was recently displayed again when I was meeting with a friend. I received an alert stating that the United States had again been ranked No. 1 on the Competitive Index according to the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland. We had slipped from that spot in 2016 and were slotted in at No. 4 in 2017. This is a ranking of competitiveness on the global business stage. One would think that any American would be happy about this development since it means our country is doing better in the world compared to other economies, and that means more Americans would be employed and thus self-sufficient. My thought is the bastion of freedom and capitalism, America, should always be No. 1.
Even though I never mentioned President Trump, my friend leapt at the opportunity to attack Trump stating (and I paraphrase) that there was no redemption for Trump in his eyes. I then commented as I always do that it is about the policies for me.
Since what I showed him was about the economy, I brought up that the unemployment rate for women is 3.9 percent -- the national average. He did not react. I then stated that the unemployment rate for blacks is its lowest in history. He responded by stating “But what kind of jobs are those?” I did not respond that they are full-time jobs, unlike during the Obama era when the employment numbers were feathered by part-time employment.
What about the insensitivity to the fact that someone having a job as opposed to being unemployed is something that raises the humanity of that person and their self-image? You can’t get a better job if you don’t have a work history by being employed. I wanted to hand him the book I read about In-N-Out Burger by Stacy Perman, where almost all their managers and top leaders started out by sweeping the parking lots and worked their way through the company.
This came on the heels of a recent discussion with a family member. When that person brought up Trump they spewed a venomous barrage of how disgusting a person he is, indicating there clearly is no salvation for him. When they mentioned his lies (which is a favorite topic of Trump haters), I brought up the fact that he lies about unimportant things and asked that person to name one lie of significance. Of course, I heard nothing. I asked to be given one that equals “You want to keep your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” I stated my wife and I wanted to keep our health plan and could not because of Obamacare. Or how about lying about the money that was returned to Iran? These are significant lies that have consequences and effect/costs lives. Exaggerating the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration affected no one. It hurt no one.
It stands to reason why people feel everything is wrong when individuals in the public eye have similar or worse things vomiting from their mouths. Bill Maher recently stated on his HBO show “I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy.” Otherwise, he is praying for millions of Americans to suffer economically just because of his perverse hatred of Trump. That is while he and his comrades will maintain their opulent lifestyles.
When did internationally known celebrities get license to go on national television broadcasts like Robert De Niro and yell obscenities at the president?
The interesting thing is that the people I see and hear who express this deep hatred of Trump are people who happen to be safe in their personal lives. They have no understanding of what an improved economy does for millions of Americans. They have no understanding of how their economic policies and hatred for Trump would hurt millions because those people are nameless and faceless to them as they reside in their comfortable homes in their comfortable jobs in their comfortable lives.
I have been active in national politics since 1980. I have had huge philosophical differences with some political people and I found some of their actions deplorable, but I never had this unhealthy inner rage some people have about Trump. To them nothing he could do would ever be commendable. I applaud any elected official who does something I think makes sense, but I could never harbor such ill feelings for anyone (except maybe Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Che Guevara – all mass murderers).
I feel sorry for them. It is obvious they will never be converted on this matter. If you bring up a political point with them that has nothing to do with Trump, they reflexively attack Trump for something non-germane to the topic. There are other matters in this country of concern other than our president, but they don’t accept that.
There are plenty of Americans who are open to seeing that Trump’s policies are improving the lives of many Americans and appreciate those actions. They don’t focus on the Trump sideshow.
We need to focus on those people, but the others are a waste of effort and can just bring you heartache and/or heartburn.
Said this before here.
Have a friend who says it would have BEEN BETTER if hillary won because republicans would have fought harder in the congress.
Intelligent guy for the most part.
Blinded by hatred and i’m not quite sure why.
Also says something about Trump’s SCOTUS nominees being Kennedy clerks and not Scalia clerks.
THAT i dont know about either way. Nor am I sure how it matters.
Glad he figured out what we realized maybe 30 years ago.
The author don't get it. It's the establishment insiders and leftist behavior that brought us Trump. They should be thanked and told to continue their hysterical, bad loser behavior. The left has become a humorous spectacle of anti-American rhetoric and they won't be able to shake that reputation for decades, if ever.
No ca$h for these klunkers...
That could be at the heart of their issues.
I think much of the hatred for Trump is based on per jealousy.
The guy’s uber successful, worth $10B or so, has a phenomenally beautiful and highly intelligent wife, etc, etc.
And all of that drives millions absolutely insane with utter, green-eyed jealousy, the kind that rots their souls from the inside out.
You know I love this guy's success, and he made it through the school of "hard knocks"! He is using what he learned to turn this Country around.
I liver here at the edge of the D.C. Swamp (NoVA). Fairfax County always ranks in the top 5 richest counties in the nation (depending on the year). A large number of the Republicans that I know locally are squishy GOPe types.
In any other venue, this would be called what it is - prejudice.
No thinking is involved, it is purely a self-contained mental loop that is not questioned and continues to feed upon itself. And it is as damaging the the psyche of the person who clings to these notions as it is to the persons or demographic to whom it is directed, if not more so.
The close-minded attitudes of old-time Klansmen against the entire black population is the only apt comparison I can make here. The anti-Trumpers have branded all things related to Team Trump as inferior and not worthy of their consideration, held in contempt simply because of the origin, and with no redeeming social benefit whatsoever.
And you thought high school was hard, especially for those who could not seem to get into the “right” clique.
This is ever so much more hard-line.
Yeah. I think that is part of it.
Also note that this real estate guy from NYC is obviously much better at politics than any of these career politicians. I think that ate at McCain in a big way. And Romney and Hillary and many others. They spend their entire career on politics and getting elected. And they aren’t good at it. Trump comes along and says, “Hey, let me give it a try” — and he wipes the floor with all of them. Sure they hate him now.
I think you absolutely hit the nail on the head!
Class envy, or “just-plan-envy-that-he/she-has-it-better(or something I don’t have!)-then-me” is a mental disease that Rats certainly have. It’s their whole reason for existence. Unfortunately a lot of GOP’ers seem to have it too.
I mentioned to a similar person that the unemployment rates for all groups are at a historic low. He replied “that’s a lie.” I suppose the swamp’s own Labor Department is lying.
My only argument to these folks is to see what Trump does during the next two years and what the country looks like. I don’t waste my time looking up facts on this website and others to counter their hatred of Trump.
If Hillary had won, we’d be looking at her picking and passing two Supreme Court nominees, enshrining Obama Care, caving to Kim Jong-Un, opening the borders to increased immigration, and encouraging Merkel and the rest of Western Europe’s leaders to let in more “refugees” from the Middle East. NAFTA would remain unchanged, the debt would continue to rocket, and the economy would continue its sluggish recovery—if that.
With McCain, Ryan, and McConnel leading the “Resistance,” you know all of that would have happened.
We’re just now picking ourselves up off the floor. Hillary would have us stay there.
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Their hatred is of Freedom.
Trump is merely symbolic, presently.
...”I think much of the hatred for Trump is based on per jealousy.
The guy’s uber successful, worth $10B or so, has a phenomenally beautiful and highly intelligent wife, etc, etc.
And all of that drives millions absolutely insane with utter, green-eyed jealousy, the kind that rots their souls from the inside out.”...
ENVY is often the source of blind hatred. Also, many of today’s males just do not have a good supply of testosterone. Trump still has quite a supply at his age. Enough to be willing to take risks to protect his nation, which is a rare trait in today’s government leadership.
Don’t we all know someone like this....
....eventually have to stop beating a dead horse
For the rest that hate him, it’s simply and solely because he’s not a Dem.
Life for them is all about political party.
The old word “Reprobates” come to mind.
While Trump was giving money to Dems, being a Dem, a TV reality star, and just being Trump, the Left had ZERO problem with it.
Then he ran for President. And WON. As a Republican!!! Suddenly, he’s the great Hitler-Monster that descended from the stars and why-doesn’t-EVERYONE-hate-him???
Scott Adams is right. The cognitive dissonance the Left is experiencing over Trump is the source of their derangement.
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