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Why do you think people are supporting Trump ?

• astronautjones 10y ago
  Xenophobia
  • malka 10y ago
    Yeah, let's dismiss the fact that the inegalities are at a level we have never seen before. Let's just say that the people that are left behind by the globalization are just xenophobic. So we could either just say "people voting for Brexit / Trump / whatever far right are stupid xenophobic people", or we could tackle the root of the problem. Globalization has been extremely poorly handled by developped countries, and they left they lower - mid class behind. we need to adress this before the countries that drive globalization (which is a good thing worldwide. People are on average richer than before) become unstable due to too much internal pressure.
    • astronautjones 10y ago
      I don't disagree, but I do think that the most correct answer to "why do you think people are supporting Trump?" is xenophobia
  • AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
    It's not merely xenophobia, though that is a factor.
• mst 10y ago
  The left behind generation / structural unemployment trap seems to me to drive both ethno-nationalist groups and muslim radicalisation - both are symptoms of the same underlying problem. We may be fucked.