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I really don't know how someone could come to any other conclusion.

charlesu 6y ago
At least 40% of the voting population is going to come to another conclusion. Maybe more. This is actually what people want even if we don't understand why. Just two lifetimes ago hundreds of thousands of propertyless young men fought and died for the privilege to compete against slave labor in...an agricultural society. Not all believed in the cause. Most probably didn't. But many did. People do strange things for stranger reasons.
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Press2forEN 6y ago
Trump supporter here. I'll answer any questions you may have about that.
- kag2020 6y ago
  They can censor us but they can't stop us!
- charlesu 6y ago
  What are Trump's policy achievements and how have materially improved your life since 2016?
  - Press2forEN 6y ago
    The reaction to his election traumatized me. For the first time in my life I felt like a foreigner in my own country. I disagree with most of his policy positions. His tax cut was too small, his insistence on opening the public schools is baffling to me given how the public school system manufactures his opposition. He was never able to build the wall, although I expected that. Ultimately I can work with my disagreements with him and the right more broadly. There is room for compromise there. But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by their vast cultural and social power. And I'm going to vote for someone that unapologetically opposes them. I know that doesn't really answer your question as you asked it. But there it is anyway.
    - wmichelin 6y ago
      The police murdered an American citizen, without trial, on camera, and you're going to oppose the... opposition of that?
      - djaque 6y ago
        Not just murdered. He held his knee on a mans neck for eight minutes and forty six seconds! He held it on there for minutes after he became unconscious and other people yelled at him to stop! There is no excuse.
      - mythrwy 6y ago
        I think it's perfectly valid to be horrified at the Floyd murder _and_ the response.
    - charlesu 6y ago
      What I've noticed about your reply is that you didn't actually mention a policy achievement but a reaction to a perceived change in the country. It doesn't sound like your life is better. It sounds like you're worried about dramatic change even though the last four years has been tumultuous. If that's the case, why do you want to vote for four more years of that? More questions: Why are you afraid of the left? What outcomes are you afraid of in particular? The Trump administration has deployed federal forces to states that have not requested asked for any help. Do you believe this is necessary? And if so, why? Do you worry what precedents this sets for the left should Democrats take the Senate and White House? What do you think about DeJoy's decision to functionally slow the speed of the Post Office? How do you find Trump's handling of the coronavirus in comparison to leaders in Europe and Asia? How do you think four more years of Trump will improve your life?
      - RhysU 6y ago
        Re: Covid handling as opined at https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-bait-and-switch-11596734803 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-bait-and-switch-11596... "Media coverage of the nation’s standing would change dramatically after a Biden victory, even if the reality does not. Mr. Biden promises increased federal coronavirus spending, but as president he couldn’t override governors’ authority to restrict economic activity, and he doesn’t propose to alter Mr. Trump’s program to accelerate vaccine and treatment development. With Mr. Trump embracing masks and trillions in federal spending, and high case totals in blue California and red Florida alike, a Biden victory wouldn’t change the epidemic’s trajectory. Yet, as the media hailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo despite his disastrous policy of transferring coronavirus patients into nursing homes and New York’s record high deaths, Mr. Biden’s election would also miraculously transform the virus from an existential threat into a manageable hindrance."
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- djaque 6y ago
  Please don't take this as an attack because I really am curious: Did you watch the full Axios interview with Swan and what were your thoughts on it?
  - Press2forEN 6y ago
    I've disengaged from the news since shortly after COVID started so I had to DuckDuckGo what you meant. I see a 38 minute interview on YouTube that I could watch, but unless in it he announces his support for abolishing the police or canceling American history, I doubt it would change anything.
- failuser 6y ago
  I don’t think there are any questions left.

At least 40% of the voting population is going to come to another conclusion. Maybe more. This is actually what people want even if we don't understand why. Just two lifetimes ago hundreds of thousands of propertyless young men fought and died for the privilege to compete against slave labor in...an agricultural society. Not all believed in the cause. Most probably didn't. But many did. People do strange things for stranger reasons.

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Press2forEN 6y ago

Trump supporter here. I'll answer any questions you may have about that.

kag2020 6y ago
They can censor us but they can't stop us!
charlesu 6y ago
What are Trump's policy achievements and how have materially improved your life since 2016?
- Press2forEN 6y ago
  The reaction to his election traumatized me. For the first time in my life I felt like a foreigner in my own country. I disagree with most of his policy positions. His tax cut was too small, his insistence on opening the public schools is baffling to me given how the public school system manufactures his opposition. He was never able to build the wall, although I expected that. Ultimately I can work with my disagreements with him and the right more broadly. There is room for compromise there. But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by their vast cultural and social power. And I'm going to vote for someone that unapologetically opposes them. I know that doesn't really answer your question as you asked it. But there it is anyway.
  - wmichelin 6y ago
    The police murdered an American citizen, without trial, on camera, and you're going to oppose the... opposition of that?
    - djaque 6y ago
      Not just murdered. He held his knee on a mans neck for eight minutes and forty six seconds! He held it on there for minutes after he became unconscious and other people yelled at him to stop! There is no excuse.
    - mythrwy 6y ago
      I think it's perfectly valid to be horrified at the Floyd murder _and_ the response.
  - charlesu 6y ago
    What I've noticed about your reply is that you didn't actually mention a policy achievement but a reaction to a perceived change in the country. It doesn't sound like your life is better. It sounds like you're worried about dramatic change even though the last four years has been tumultuous. If that's the case, why do you want to vote for four more years of that? More questions: Why are you afraid of the left? What outcomes are you afraid of in particular? The Trump administration has deployed federal forces to states that have not requested asked for any help. Do you believe this is necessary? And if so, why? Do you worry what precedents this sets for the left should Democrats take the Senate and White House? What do you think about DeJoy's decision to functionally slow the speed of the Post Office? How do you find Trump's handling of the coronavirus in comparison to leaders in Europe and Asia? How do you think four more years of Trump will improve your life?
    - RhysU 6y ago
      Re: Covid handling as opined at https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-bait-and-switch-11596734803 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-bait-and-switch-11596... "Media coverage of the nation’s standing would change dramatically after a Biden victory, even if the reality does not. Mr. Biden promises increased federal coronavirus spending, but as president he couldn’t override governors’ authority to restrict economic activity, and he doesn’t propose to alter Mr. Trump’s program to accelerate vaccine and treatment development. With Mr. Trump embracing masks and trillions in federal spending, and high case totals in blue California and red Florida alike, a Biden victory wouldn’t change the epidemic’s trajectory. Yet, as the media hailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo despite his disastrous policy of transferring coronavirus patients into nursing homes and New York’s record high deaths, Mr. Biden’s election would also miraculously transform the virus from an existential threat into a manageable hindrance."
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djaque 6y ago
Please don't take this as an attack because I really am curious: Did you watch the full Axios interview with Swan and what were your thoughts on it?
- Press2forEN 6y ago
  I've disengaged from the news since shortly after COVID started so I had to DuckDuckGo what you meant. I see a 38 minute interview on YouTube that I could watch, but unless in it he announces his support for abolishing the police or canceling American history, I doubt it would change anything.
failuser 6y ago
I don’t think there are any questions left.