bogarde73 wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2016 at 10:49am:
Karnal wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2016 at 10:34am:
Why would blue collar guys be voting Republican anyway? Trump's the essence of elitism. Military school, daddy's business, and a career as a property developer. Trump has promoted pro-business policies for years - in between his own self-promoting stunts: lavish weddings, casino openings, appearances on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
Blue collar voters are deluded if they think Trump's there for them. Trump is there for himself. His pitch at the presidency was only ever intended as leverage to get his job back at NBC. As he's said many times: the White House is a dump. It only has two stories.
Trump doesn't want to be president. He wants his own talk show. He wants to bask in the limelight and talk about himself. This is what he does.
If America is mad enough to vote him in, he won't last 5 minutes as president.
Deluded? Not any more. Like the silent majority right throughout western democracies - not only white - , they've had it up to the eyeballs with pseudo-socialist, globalist claptrap that has taken away their occupations and their chance to provide for their families in the future.
Pseudo socialist? The US has had neoliberal Regan policies for two generations. All that globalist claptrap is set up to benefit the US.
If American blue collar workers truly believe they've been laboring under pseudo-socialist policies, they clearly are deluded. The very global financial crisis that lost them their jobs and their homes was the result of the financial markets regulating themselves.
Trump himself is campaigning on pseudo-socialist policies. His economic "solutions" include printing more US dollars, reintroducing tariffs, and declaring a trade war on China.
None of these, of course, will happen. The president, for example, doesn't run the mint. Not only does Trump not understand economic policy, he doesn't understand the powers of executive office.
Regardless of this, Trump is just a distraction. He'll never become president. But voters should at least get their distractions right. Are they
for pseudo-socialist policies, or against them?