Posted on 10/13/2020 4:45:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania -- He has no idea which candidate he's going to vote for next month.
The 36-year-old registered Republican and conservative found President Donald Trump's comportment so distasteful in 2016 that he voted for Hillary Clinton. Since then, he found himself reluctantly liking Trump's accomplishments and started leaning toward voting for Trump in 2020. But he puts the brakes on supporting Trump every time the president says something he thinks is outrageous.
"I just want this chaos to end," he says in frustration. "That is what I am going to vote for: no chaos."
This suburban voter, like many others who might decide this election, now leans more toward Joe Biden. He is not alone.
Many voters going into this election next month believe if Biden wins the presidency, the constant disruption, chaos and social unrest will recede because Trump will no longer be president. Some of them are actually hinging their vote on that. Those exasperated voters and every reporter who spins that reasoning are as wrong about that as they were in their belief that the 2016 election was all about Trump. It never was.
Trump was never the cause of the conservative populist coalition that put him in office. He was the result of it. After decades of voters' dissatisfaction with both political parties, institutions, government and culture, they voted for themselves and their communities over both parties' establishments. It wasn't about voting for Trump.
A lot of very smart people keep missing that critical nuance.
If Trump's opponents, or those who cover him, were to spend any time listening to voters and not making fun of them, categorizing them as a cult, racists, stupid or whatever word of the day, they would understand that.
I don't mean parachuting in for a day at a diner and calling that understanding of a community but walking in their shoes and their community's streets to see how government has either failed them or passed their community by. It wouldn't hurt to stay in town for a couple of days, attend church with people, go to work with them or watch them coach Little League.
Look someone in the eyes while standing on the very ground they walk on, not from the bubble of your life experiences, and you might experience a little empathy.
As for Biden, despite his wistful assertion that he is going to bring this country together, anyone with a smidgen of understanding of the Democratic Party knows he will be hard-pressed to bring his own party together, let alone an entire country.
The hard and very vocal left will demand climate change legislation, defunding or deep restructuring of our nation's police forces, free college tuition, a $15 minimum wage, "Medicare for All" and a restructuring of our education system to include radical lessons like The 1619 Project as part of the curriculum.
The left will take its demands to social media, the streets and Washington until they get what they want. That is not a threat; that is just a reality. Biden is not the far left's candidate, but he is the means to an end of Trump. Once elected, there is a valid expectation of a far-left reward for voting for Biden.
The moderate Democrats, independents and suburban Republicans who may put Biden into office won't willingly go along with sweeping government changes to satisfy activists, or with higher taxes needed to support those changes. They won't take to the streets, but they will silently move away from the coalition in which they had decided to dip their toe. The result will be an instantaneous shift back toward Republican candidates for the 2022 midterm elections, and the continuation of the wildly swinging wave elections we've been experiencing since 2006.
In short, there is no exit from the roller coaster anytime soon
We keep sending Washington a message with our votes every two years, and Washington keeps misreading the results. Journalism has contributed to this; a government that operates out of a bubble has contributed to this; Hollywood and our national sports leagues have contributed to this; and our national institutions have contributed to this.
Our institutions' lack of both racial and cultural diversity in the boardrooms are root causes. More people who come from a state school or community college; who sit in a pew every Sunday or attend a mosque or synagogue; who own a gun or grew up in the projects need to be involved in the decision-making processes of places that have an effect on our lives.
Instead, they are mostly filled with the best of the best Ivy League graduates who never had those experiences -- or, if they did, forgot their significance along the way.
People feel left out. People feel as though all of these entities are picking winners and losers. Our elections reflect that chaos, and as a result, people feel whiplash.
Biden's team has tried to portray him as the salve that will heal our country. The hard truth is no matter who wins, no matter who takes the oath of office on Inauguration Day, our country will still be on a bender.
Anyone who would vote for ANY dim-0 should be kicked in the nuts.
“That is what I am going to vote for: no chaos.”
...typical dumbass. The current chaos is a result of unearthing the deep state. Voting Biden, which is where this putz is leaning, will bring you back to square one. Bone head.
He needs to know there is no chaos in North Korea. He should go check that out.
This fellow is not very bright.
Consider the following quote, widely attributed to the USSRs’s (USA’s) Communist (Rat) leader Joseph
Stalin (Biden): “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.”
I’m surprised he emerged from his basement and took off his hazmat suit to do this interview.
P.S. — It’s worth noting that Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 despite this guy’s Hillary vote.
Voting for President based on media slander instead of policy or results?
Ha—a roller coaster suggests a controlled ride that goes up as well as down. I see a plan to sweep away freedom, wealth, mobility and standard of living almost across the board. (Elite of course excepted.)
Is that really so or is that just the narrative being fed to our side?
Massive indictments of the conspirators who attempted to overthrow the government will destruct the roller coaster.
So long as those enemies exist, America will not
I think she’s dead wrong on this. If Trump loses in 2020 I can see a lot of true conservatives walking away from the GOP forever. The Chamber of Commerce globalists who dominate the GOP establishment will have become a Democrat organization then, and GOP will be a permanent minority party.
found President Donald Trump's comportment so distasteful in 2016 that he voted for Hillary Clinton
Here is a person who votes on "comportment." Nothing else matter, "comportment" by this voter's standard of what constitutes appropriate "comportment" is how the decision is made. No substance, no policy, just "comportment."
And even that is stupid because the only "comportment" the public sees is whatever act the person puts on in front of the cameras. LBJ was a real ass, but comported himself pretty well in front of the cameras.
I wonder what fraction of the public is this illogical.
This guy reminds me of the sleeper who smashes the alarm clock, the one he set the night before, for disturbing his slumber... or the one who upon being awakened in a burning house pulls the covers over his head.
“...found President Donald Trump’s comportment so distasteful in 2016 that he voted for Hillary Clinton.”
So you voted for a demon because your little feelings got hurt by some of the ridiculous things that Trump says.
What an idiot.
Strong leaders are also, usually, assholes. We have Trump as a strong leader. Unfortunately, we also have Soros spending enormous sums to bring Trump down. One wonders what it would be like if Soros, his family, and their money all just disappeared. Would it all just stop? No more continuous coup from the dems, no more continuous attacks from the media, no more antifa, no more BLM, no more Obamas, no more Clintons, no more Podestas, Brennan, Comey, etc. since all of these are funded with his money.
At what point does the DOJ and IRS start looking at someone who has been said, for years, to be funding opposition at the level of law breaking that has been going on?
All well and fine, but some of the vilest Antifa/BLM vermin are female.
I don’t see any effort by Trump haters to try to understand voters. Voters are just something to be manipulated. Haters are going to hate.
My next door neighbor says he’s not voting for Trump. He’s voting for the 1st and 2nd amendment, Law and Order, anti-Antifa. (Voting for not-Biden)
“The 36-year-old registered Republican and conservative found President Donald Trump’s comportment so distasteful in 2016 that he voted for Hillary Clinton”
Real Conservatives don’t vote for Hillary Clinton. For any reason. Ever.
This kind of divisive schlock is unbecoming of Selena. If this guy can’t figure out which side of his bread is buttered then he should stay home and watch the boob-toob.
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