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the deplorables defined

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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

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Isaac Asimov

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“So I don’t want to paint with too broad a brush when I say that you were warned about this man—and you ignored our warnings.

We were right; you were wrong.

The masses, it turns out, sometimes are asses.

Sometimes the people who actually pay close attention to politics know more than the disgruntled populists and nationalists who are willing to gamble on the future of this great republic—and on the reputation of a conservative philosophy that goes from Aristotle to Burke to Buckley—in order to boost a reality show host.

You elected your guy, and look where it got us.”

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Matt Lewis <Republican Conservative>

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Ok.

I probably get in more heated debates over Trump voters than almost any other deplorable Trump voter topics discussed these days – with both Trump voters and non-Trump voters.

I even know why it happens … we generalize and we label.

And in generalizing we force a Trump voter to defend other Trump voters, who most likely voted for Trump for some other reason than the one they are defending, and the non Trump voter paints all Trump voters with the worst of the worst attributes <the truly deplorable aspects>.

This is crazy.

No.

This is stupid.

The majority of Americans don’t have a label attached to them other than “get up and go to work and get shit done” people.

People rarely self-identify as a CNN watcher or Fox watcher or MSNBC watcher … or a republican or democrat … or any fringe group when you meet them.

We apply the label on them … we generalize for them.

But most people are labeled by … well … community, family and what they do to earn a living every day.

Sure … elections force most of us to take some stand but most of us embrace that stand with some unease. We would rather be defined by what happens in our day and lives than by whom we elected to vote for.

Most of us have our own imperfections and flaws without having to explain, or be defined, by some imperfections and flaws of someone who we voted for.

Most of all the label stuff is crap.

And maybe what is worst about labels are they suggest most Americans have to be “x” or they are “y.” That is complete and utter bullshit. voters people america speak out

I can be tough on immigration and still be compassionate.

I can have government les involved in healthcare and still make sure a safety net is available for all people.

I can increase my military budget without being some “hawk” who wants to drop bombs on everyone.

I guess my real point is that most Americans want it all and chafe when it is suggested they have to choose one thing or another. While TV pundits went out of their way to suggest this last election was a ‘binary choice’ the truth of the matter was that the decision on who to vote for was more likely a complex more-than-binary choice.

Which leads me to the Trump voters.

Up until now I have leaned heavily on the fabulous CBS News Nation Tracker Poll <CFM Strategic Communications panel survey> which outlined that the nation’s view of Donald Trump as President breaks down into four categories – Believers (22%), Conditionals (22%), Curious (21%) and Resisters (35%).

The first category are true believers who think Trump is on the right track. Conditionals generally support Trump, but may not approve of everything he does or says. The Curious are opponents, but could be swayed depending on Trump actions. Resisters see no hope in Trump and oppose him across the board.

But now there is a new piece of research out which breaks Trump voters into 5 groups which I will use to make my point again.

To summarize it I offer these 5 numbers to keep in mind:

American Preservationists (20%): 12 million people

These are the core ‘always-Trumpers’ … this is also the group who think anti-white discrimination is a much more prevalent problem than is discrimination against any minority group <which is, realistically, false>

Staunch Conservatives (31%): 19 million people

These are the core Republicans who would most likely vote for any Republican even if it was an alien

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Anti-Elites (19%): 11 million people

These have relatively cooler feelings toward Donald Trump and nearly half had favorable opinions of Clinton in 2012. This group shifted most dramatically, however, against Clinton by November 2016.

Free Marketeers (25%): 15 million people

Small government fiscal conservatives, free traders, with moderate to liberal positions on immigration and race.

the Disengaged (5%): 3 million people

This group does not know much about politics, but what they do know is they feel detached from institutions and elites and are skeptical of immigration.

USA population: 326.5 million people

USA adult 18+ population: est. 250 million people

<note: I used 60 million Trump votes to simplify my math and come up with people numbers>

The other thing I always keep in mind is that nowhere along the way, primary & general elections, has Trump ever won the popular vote. In the primaries Republicans voted in significant numbers for anyone but Trump <almost 2/3^rd of primary votes did not vote for Trump>. My point in all these numbers is that Trump voters are not just an American minority/splinter of the whole but a relatively small <but loud> group.

Regardless.

Here is the topline good news … I would estimate we have less than 20 million, idiots Trump voters smart people stupid fucks breakdown of population my guess is maybe 15 million, truly deplorable people in the USA … say maybe 6% of adults. Here is the bad news … we tend to suggest those 6% are representative of all Trump voters <as well as all that is ignorant, deplorable and bad about USA>.

Anyway.

We screw up numbers in generalizations all the time.

Not all Trump voters voted for the same reason nor do they have similar issues.

It’s just like discussing “the 99%.”

The 99% are a mix of the wretched of the earth, the everyday schmucks who want to do the right thing and a fairly large group of upper middle class <doctors, university teachers, journalists, senior management, politicians>. It is the mixed bag of people who, without them, the 1% would cease to exist.

Lumping them all together in the 99% is almost suggesting that is America’s middle class which then suggests opportunity is equal to all <and the 1% should be everyone’s objective>.

Trump’s voters were a mixed bag of people with some good reasons to pull he lever for Trump and some bad reasons for pulling the lever for Trump.

Anyway.

I purposefully called this piece today “deplorables defined” to make a point. Of course not everyone who voted for Trump is deplorable … and Hillary never suggested such a thing. But … gosh … maybe we should have listened to her a little more closely … and maybe we should have listened to the entire speech … and maybe, just maybe, it is possible she was right:

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“I know there are only 60 days left to make our case — and don’t get complacent, don’t see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, well, he’s done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”

“But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

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sigh charlie

Sigh.

Of course, none of us really did pay attention to it all <even the mainstream media which was supposedly all in her camp> and paid the price of not doing so by missing her statement about empathizing and working for better lives for those Trump supporters who aren’t scum-of-the-earth deplorable dumpster fire pieces of shit.

Would I have used the word “deplorable?”

No. probably not.

She probably should have been more specific and named them out, as the Alt-right, misogynists, white supremacist, KKK, and Nazis. But you know what? We are dancing on the head of a pin. ‘Some’ deplorables voted for Trump, ‘some’ deplorables still support trump and ‘some’ deplorables are irredeemable.

Ok.

Let me spend a moment more on ‘deplorable’.

While I, personally, would have not used the term with regard to some Trump voters I believe the only true mistake Clinton made was apologizing. She should have tripled down with clarifying & defining … and suggesting <in some way> we all have a deplorable ‘voice’ inside us whispering fears and untruths and … well … the bad shit we think about people who do not look like us. And point out that Trump whispers, in a bombastic way, to our deplorable inside … and we shouldn’t permit him that victory <because Americans are better than that>.

By the way … I do believe that. And while there certainly are some truly deplorable people in the USA I would like to think 99% are redeemable not because they need to be redeemed but rather they need to understand they can ignore that voice inside and still get ahead and ‘win.’

In the end I offer two numbers.

15 and 30.

If you scour some of the more random assessment of the population and their views with regard to Trump you will find these two numbers <or close to them> constantly bubbling up.

15%.

This would be the % of people who would follow Trump like lemmings over the cliff. He could bomb Alabama and they would find a good reason he did it <note: these are not all deplorable people but deplorable people reside within this number>.

30%.

This would be the % of people who wouldn’t follow Trump if you told them you would win the lottery. He could apologize every day until the day he died and they would still find a reason to suggest he pissed on Mother Theresa’s grave.

Anyway.

I don’t know Trump nor do I wish to ever meet the man but if I could whisper these numbers into his head … I would. They reflect the precarious nature of his presidency <or his reelection>.

I am under no illusion that Trump truly has any desire to unite the country but the numbers reflect the fact America is not deplorable by nature and the bigger message opportunity, to inspire people, is to remind them of that.

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a good decision, stay focused and go do it, stay or go, stimulus, straight lines, straight lines are rare in life, strategy, strength of character to make change, stressful decisions, strip away the undoable and identify the doable, strong desire for democracy in Arab and other predominantly Muslim nations, struggle between energy and indolence, struggle between vitality and decay, struggle to find a real valid reason, struggle to think of anything more miserable than, struggled to adapt to the change, stuck someplace that isn’t moving toward where, Stuff I Like, substance versus style, substantial number in key Muslim countries want a large role for Islam, success of ROI, Success will be dictated by coordination & focus, suggest they can do a shitload better than this, surprised more people haven’t flocked to this asshole, swallowing nonsense, takes focus, talking, Tell me that God isn’t an advertising hack, Tell them about comfort, Tell them about Hope, telling me I should go back to church, telling the truth, telling the truth in marketing is hard, telling the truth is not impossible, Terrorist activity makes us angry, Terrorists do not speak for a billion Muslims who reject, testimonial, thankfully they are not America, that i will be tomorrow, that which is simple is valuable, the absence of truth, the answers are within you, the art of procrastinating, the best interest of the people, the calling of the trumpets, the deplorables defined, the economy is a top concern, the entire process was seen as either sequential or isolated, the everyday schmucks who want to do the right thing, the fate of each one of us is inextricably linked to the fate of all, the global generation, The Holy Spirit inspired me to write this script, the inner soul of the people, The loudmouth bully, The masses, the megalomaniac hotelier, the more powerful will be the smaller players, the most powerful weapon in life is not a mission, the numbers told me what to do, the odd moment of beauty where time is not the same, the office of president represents, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, the rocky road is the high road, the same process and same vocabulary, the stupid & ignorant, the Time versus Expectations continuum, the Trump show, the unimportant, the US operates under a zero civilian casualty standard that far exceed, The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world, the world is always changing, their voices and actions are significantly louder than their sheer numbers, there are a lot of insights, there are the things you SHOULD do, There are two bibles, there is a good Christian lurking within you Bruce, there is good advertising & communicating, there is no formula for good choices, they are butcher-entrepreneurs who, They do not want a separation of church & state, think anti-white discrimination is a much more prevalent problem, think that a multi-billionaire could care anything about you, thinking, thinking impossible things, thinking is good, thinking too much, this barbaric, this i am today, This is stupid logic, this sounds pretty common sense, this topic is not silly, Those are people we have to understand, thoughtful and committed passion, thoughtful and relevant, thoughts, thrive on dreams and possibilities, time, time is a disposable product, Time is the new Currency, time management, Time pressure enhances the odds someone will make a less ethical, time research, time wasters, to be sure of you, To Trump dissension is unacceptable, Toffler as a futurist, Toffler’s Powershift in 1991, Took God 6 days to create the universe, tough decisions are tough, tragic asymmetry, transactional branding, transformational people, trapped by fear, treat people fairly, tries to create dissatisfaction, trivial moments, trivial moments in bigger life, true believers who think Trump is on the right track, true friend, Trump has often been called a carnival act, trump is a carnival act, trump is a little brained big mouthed jerkwad, Trump is an unequivocal asshat, Trump is dangerous to the idea of America, Trump offered some hope in resolving, Trump voters, Trump voters deserve some dignity too, Trump’s voters were a mixed bag of people, trust, trust & integrity tied to its purpose, truth, truth and expectations, truth goggles, truth in marketing, truth is rarely simple, truth is what really happened, truth or lies, truth or nothing, truth should be simple, Trying to make them unhappy is difficult, uncertainty is a bitch, uncertainty takes on geometric proportions, under the guise of no political correctness, under the guise of strong leadership, underlying arrogance remains ugly, understand why I’m confident that God is watching over us, unenlightened leadership, unethical advertising, unexpected innovation, unimportant truths, unintended casualties of war, united states should never confuse a desire for democracy to be a desire to be friends, unleadership, unquestionable, unrealistic expectations, unreasonable, unshakeable, until we meet again, upon this simple, urging Catholics to come home, use your imagination, using truth to deceive, utilizing time efficiency models to squeeze every productive minute, values, vehemently state their concerns & thoughts, very effective form of promotion, vibrantly alive in repose, vision, voices and actions are significantly louder than their sheer numbers, voting views here are irrelevant, walk in our footsteps, walking beyond our own footsteps, want to be doing something purposeful for someone, wanting more can help us grow in many ways, wasted energy worrying, watch Trump supporters twist themselves into pretzels trying to defend, way he speaks of results is what dictators say, we actually waste a shitload of time, we all fear being marginalized, we all have the same amount of time, we are not at war with Islam, we expose ourselves and we face these risks, we invest so much time trying to manage time, We should be angry, wealth, what do you do when you get what you want, what I know opinions, What if life is made up primarily of the in between, What if that is all there is, what is right and what is wrong, what is the place of words, what of the wretched hollow, what we are seeking explanations, what would you sacrifice to win, what you elect to do with it, whatever it may be, When you do things right, Where are the Catholics, while sometimes it’s just fun to watch as he offends entire segments, White House will be adorned by a downright moron, who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace, WHO KILLED THE USFL, who most likely voted for Trump for some other reason, why do trump supporters say, will always be things you want to do, will only appeal to those who are already, willing to gamble on the future, willing to gamble on the future of this great republic, with anger of feeling marginalized, words, words reflecting experiences, words that become deeds, words worse than nothing unless they do something, worst of Trump & the administration, worst rationale of the stupid & ignorant, write something to discuss Donald Trump, yields the Islamic State the equivalent of an air defense capability, You can do this but you cannot do this, you can solve that kind of problem, you cannot dwell on every moment that slipped by, You cannot make this stuff up, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables, You gotta learn to see it for yourself, you were wrong, your best member of your team has the energy and focus

August 30, 2017 by Bruce

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