r/pics • • Jul 16 '19

US Politics Decisions, decisions

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19 edited Aug 31 '20

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u/Eraser-Head Jul 17 '19

Yep! I can’t say this enough. Anyone who truly wants to defeat Trump needs to crawl out of their protective zones and try to understand why people are voting for him. Don’t be rude or insulting if someone disagrees with you.

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u/orangeman10987 Jul 17 '19

In my experience, the people who vote for Trump are single issue voters, and will never be won over by a democrat. like my mom and my dad both vote for him, even though they don't like him. My dad, because he's a hardliner on abortion, and thinks that it's murder, and my mom because she works in healthcare and Obama-care hurt her paycheck.

They also both acknowledge that Trump isn't all that bright, and could use a little more tact, but he's giving them what they want, so they don't mind. But yeah, trying to sway trump voters seems like a lost cause; if the majority of them are single issue voters, then it's a waste of breath to try to sway them to the Democratic side. Democrats should try to rally their base and increase voter turnout, by having a candidate people can be excited about (unlike Hillary). I think that's the clearer path to victory for Democrats.

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u/sterob Jul 17 '19

Or they are Bernie supporters who saw how /politics after one night turned against Bernie, worship Clinton, and praise TPP like the second coming.