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It was clear to me why people voted for trump the first time round. (Although, many experts believe it was more about voting against Clinton than for trump.) H
by jjeaff 6y ago
It was clear to me why people voted for trump the first time round. (Although, many experts believe it was more about voting against Clinton than for trump.)
He was an outsider/wildcard/Maverick and perceived smart businessman so his promises to clean up the corruption seemed more plausible than the entrenched status quo.
Now that his lack of business acumen, lack of general intelligence, non-existent diplomacy, zero empathy, and pure personal greed mixed with nepotism and corruption has been laid bare, I understand those who plan to vote for him next time round very little except through the lens of identity politics and hate/racism/xenophobia/epistemonophobia.
- mikelyons 6y agoThere's a really good lens for understanding this called Spiral Dynamics, a scientific model of the evolution/development of consciousness which is the work of Clare Graves. If you understand that Trump is at the red/orange level of consciousness, and so is a huge chunk of the American population, it's obvious why they will vote for him. The stage red / stage orange worldview is pretty clearly what conservative Americans operate on, (and many are very on stage blue also). The majority of liberal Americans are operating on stages orange and green. And these are still all tier 1 of 2 tiers in the model.