Would you vote for someone that you knew was dishonest, lied all the time, could never be trusted?

[kentuck]

What can we surmise from people that would vote for such a person?

Other than ignorance?

Immorality, untrustworthy, petty, no empathy, no redeeming qualities.

Who would vote for such a person?

[Blue_Tires]

1. "Trump pisses off the libs" is all they have been clinging to

Well done... We put a reddit troll into the highest office and told him to go crazy.

[Alpeduez21]

2. To get judges that make abortion illegal

sanction racism
and because there is an R after the name.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. They all lie

We just have to as voters vote our conscience.

[IADEMO2004]

4. 60% of my county

[Sophia4]

9. Actually, Hillary won the popular vote.

Trump was not elected by the majority of voters.

He was elected by the majority in the electoral college, an anachronism we need to end with a constitutional amendment.

[IADEMO2004]

18. 60% of my county voted for trump

[Sophia4]

33. But Hillary won nationwide. That's the reality.

The electoral college is an anachronism.

[IADEMO2004]

39. I'm answering OP's question Who would vote for such a person?

[ehrnst]

41. But that's not 60% of voters.(nt)

[IADEMO2004]

42. 60% of voters in my county (one of 99 in Iowa) voted for trump.

[ehrnst]

46. That's not 60% of voters *in the nation*

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as we well know.

The majority of voters who voted DT voted due to anxiety about those that are not straight white people.

The majority of voters - as well as the majority of voters who voted on economic issues went with our candidate.

[IADEMO2004]

49. A county and a country are different things. Hillary won Hillary won

I have made no comment about the national popular vote only my local county.

[ehrnst]

50. I think you may be responding to someone else?

Sophia4 maybe?

[sheshe2]

21. Good catch, mariesa.

Welcome to DU.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. This catch is not just great as sheseh2 says, it is reminiscent of either of these

or

[Sophia4]

34. I was responding to a comment that said that 60% of a county voted for Trump.

I was not referring to Hillary other than to say she really won the election.

Only our antiquated, outdated system with an electoral college put Trump in the White House. Trump is an imposter in my opinion. He did not win the election -- not if you measure winning by a democratic standards -- the only fair standard in my view.

[ehrnst]

48. Yes, getting the most votes is the usual measure of who got elected.

However, that seems to be irrelevant to many who think that louder = more numerous.

Amirite?

[ehrnst]

43. Yep

A quick search of "Journal entries" sheds some light on the answer to that.

[mcar]

22. Interesting response

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Why is this shit allowed here? amazing

[Sophia4]

35. Please see my post # 34.

I was responding to a post, not to the original post in this thread.

Hillary won the popular vote and should be president in my view.

[George II]

31. Are you implying that Hillary Clinton is "dishonest, lied all the time, could never be trusted"?

[Sophia4]

36. Absolutely not. I was responding to the post above mine which claimed that

60% of the poster's county voted for Trump.

Hillary won the popular vote, and in my view (I'm from California) should be president right now. I have not patience with the electoral college which put Trump, an imposter, in the White House in my view.

I was responding to the post right above mine, not to the original post.

[CanonRay]

5. Only if I were an Evangelical

and also knew he had slept with a porno star.

[lark]

6. We can assume one or more of a few things:

- Person pays no attention to what's happening and sees faux snooze when they are at dentist or doctors so believes it
- Person is a neo-Nazi, KKK, etc. type
- Person is a racist and that's the main driver of their life
- Person is rich or thinks they will be rich someday
- Person doesn't think (duh) and just reflexively votes repug even if the nominee is a criminal, traitor, and total liar.

[ehrnst]

45. Or voted third party or write in, to "send a message." (nt)

[lapucelle]

56. And there are those who never showed up to vote

because they need to be "inspired" to perform the most crucial and fundamental responsibility of citizenship.

[bluestarone]

7. the only person i can think of would be blind in both eyes and cannot hear

or a tRUMP fan would be my second guess

[Sophia4]

8. Someone who was desperately angry about his/her choices in life.

[kentuck]

10. But there was a poll or a study that showed Trump voters were above average in income.

So it was something besides their economic condition. But, they were angry.

[Sophia4]

11. Income does not predict happiness.

Watching Fox News could make a person who has a lot of money pretty miserable.

I bet there is a correlation between watching Fox News and voting for Trump.

But always remember, Trump did not win a majority of the popular votes. He lost California big-time. He lost by 3 million votes, I believe. We often forget that.

[kentuck]

12. Yep.

[ehrnst]

16. Angry about "others" who they feared and hated and projected all manner of blame on.

And who they could not make legal choices to keep out of their workplaces and off their teevees, and out of SCOTUS, and out of the whitest, most exclusive gated residence in the world...

Those who were angry about their lack of economic choices voted for Hillary. Those who were angry about black and brown public figures, older women in authority, and LGBTQ "perverts" voted for Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/white-working-class-trump-cultural-anxiety/525771/

[msongs]

13. bible thumpers would and do vote for such people. those sins are features nt

[Dave Starsky]

14. How do Trumpers trust each other?

How do they conduct business with each other (buy used cars, life insurance, etc.) knowing that both parties involved worship the God King of liars, back-stabbers, and cheats? And how could they leave their spouses alone in a room with their friends?

[ehrnst]

15. Especially when there was Hillary Clinton to vote for, choice of the Democratic voters for President

What sort of ignorant, immoral, petty, untrustworthy "progressive" would spread the false propaganda that we saw smeared all over social media about her - even from the left? And some right here on DU.

Who could trust such a person who would do that?

What could motivate them other than ignorance?

What can we surmise from that sort of self-defeating undermining that was a huge plus for DOTUS?

[brer cat]

32. +1000

[betsuni]

51. +1

[flotsam]

17. No

Though I occasionally married them...

[meow2u3]

20. Authoritarian followers of criminal leaders would vote for such a diabolical creature

Unfortunately, those were the voters who foisted off an immoral, untrustworthy, petty asshole completely devoid of empathy and redeeming qualities on the American people, and according to this demon, they're the only ones who matter to him because they all fawn all over him.

[Vinca]

23. He's got a hold on them like it's a cult.

[mreilly]

24. They truly don't care that he lies...

.... but they're deluded enough to believe he would never lie to THEM.

[Kirk Lover]

25. I tell the deplorables that they like being lied to their face and that they must like it in their

own lives. They must accept friends/family/lovers lying right to their face and they don't question them. That is the only way I can explain how they enjoy being lied to. So far I have not received a response to my statement.

[Beartracks]

26. But Repubs only "heard" such things about Trump, and...

... assured themselves such tales were from jealous, partisan Liberals. Or, more likely, they heard nothing at all, being inside a media bubble as so many of them are.


Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It's a major political party in America.

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[Aristus]

28. No.

But then, I'm not a Republican.

[Turbineguy]

37. It's a bit like asking

"If you were being brainwashed by Fox News and you could stop it by changing the channel, would you do it?"

[Caliman73]

40. Unfortunately, you are correct.

I have a family member who says that they do not support Trump, but every other rightwing meme they post is attacking the so called "liberal media" for criticizing Trump.

The first thing they do with brainwashing is to convince you that you are not being brainwashed but learning some exclusive truth. Anything that does not conform to your ideology then it is enemy. I always ask this family member first to define "liberal media" then to list what the "liberal media" consists of. I never get an answer just continuing right wing memes.

I would imagine that people who voted for Trump, unless they were extremely honest and said that they were completely taken in by a con man with populist rhetoric, or they voted to maintain a White, Male, Christian hegemony, that they could not give a decent answer.

[catrose]

38. I'd assume they were dishonest, lied all the time, could never be trusted

Since they were okay with such a candidate

[Bettie]

52. Who would vote for that kind of person?

The answer is really simple: someone who is also dishonest and untrustworthy.

The saddest thing about this election is that masks were ripped off and people who I once thought were decent people have turned out to be amoral and dishonest people hiding that fact until it became socially acceptable not to.

It has become socially acceptable now to be the worst versions of themselves and a lot of people have moved quickly to do so. They revel in their allegiance to their orange clown leader and in their hatred of anyone who isn't them.

[betsuni]

53. That's what a lot of people said about Hillary Clinton.

What can we surmise about people who would swallow such bullshit, other than ignorance?

Everyone who did that is immoral, untrustworthy, petty, no empathy, no redeeming qualities and fucking stupid. Who would listen to such a person?

[ehrnst]

54. Indeed. (nt)

[lunamagica]

55. There is this guy in Miami who sued trump after he refused to pay for a paint job

in Mar-a-Lago. He won.

Guess who he voted for? yup, he voted for trump.

When I heard him say that, I just...I don't understand this world.