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CNN: Democrats Who Crossed-over to Vote Trunp. What They Think One Year Later.

Captain Adverse

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I just ran across this video which may be an eye-opener to those who think Trump has lost any support among Democratic crossover voters.



Each issue was raised; Immigration, Racism, Trump Tweets, Trump lies, Economics, Media bias.

"One year later these voters couldn't be happier, they see achievement. Most of all they see a President just like them."

Perhaps this will open the eyes of "resistors" to the reality of what maintains Trump's support among those who voted for him despite all the MSM propaganda efforts to paint his Administration in the worst picture possible.

Maybe not though, it is hard to overcome assumption bias. :coffeepap:
 
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I'm having trouble identifying the deplorable half of that group.
 
This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum. To suggest a Dem crossing over to vote for Trump, now that would be a conspiracy. Perhaps that is what Trumps sham Election Senate Committee was looking for, it took them a year to figure out no Dem was dumb enough to vote for Donald Trump. :doh
 
yankintx said:
This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum. To suggest a Dem crossing over to vote for Trump, now that would be a conspiracy. Perhaps that is what Trumps sham Election Senate Committee was looking for, it took them a year to figure out no Dem was dumb enough to vote for Donald Trump. :doh
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Heartland Democracts Eschew Trends.


You may very well be right that Dems won't cross over now. They'd probably just renounce their membership or join the GOP.
 
yankintx said:
This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum. To suggest a Dem crossing over to vote for Trump, now that would be a conspiracy. Perhaps that is what Trumps sham Election Senate Committee was looking for, it took them a year to figure out no Dem was dumb enough to vote for Donald Trump. :doh
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Like I said...

Captain Adverse said:
...t is hard to overcome assumption bias. :coffeepap:
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:shrug:
 
yankintx said:
This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum. To suggest a Dem crossing over to vote for Trump, now that would be a conspiracy. Perhaps that is what Trumps sham Election Senate Committee was looking for, it took them a year to figure out no Dem was dumb enough to vote for Donald Trump. :doh
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Nope. Lots of people I know were disgruntled Democrats who voted for Trump, or were at one point Democrats.
 
Captain Adverse said:
I just ran across this video which may be an eye-opener to those who think Trump has lost any support among Democratic crossover voters.

Each issue was raised; Immigration, Racism, Trump Tweets, Trump lies, Economics, Media bias.

"One year later these voters couldn't be happier, they see achievement. Most of all they see a President just like them."

Perhaps this will open the eyes of "resistors" to the reality of what maintains Trump's support among those who voted for him despite all the MSM propaganda efforts to paint his Administration in the worst picture possible.

Maybe not though, it is hard to overcome assumption bias. :coffeepap:
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Come now, CA - you know as well as I do that it's every bit as easy to find those who voted for Trump, who sorely regret doing so now, and who would never do so again. That's the nature of the internet - you can always find someone who thinks as you do, or who thinks the way you believe they should. It's a confirmation-bias tool of epic scale.

That being said, Trump took the word (and apparently continues to take the word) of an ex-KGB colonel in charge of the Kremlin over that of our NSA/FBI/CIA. That in and of itself should have disqualified Trump from ever having any support from any American who remembers what patriotism is.
 
Captain Adverse said:
I just ran across this video which may be an eye-opener to those who think Trump has lost any support among Democratic crossover voters.



Each issue was raised; Immigration, Racism, Trump Tweets, Trump lies, Economics, Media bias.

"One year later these voters couldn't be happier, they see achievement. Most of all they see a President just like them."

Perhaps this will open the eyes of "resistors" to the reality of what maintains Trump's support among those who voted for him despite all the MSM propaganda efforts to paint his Administration in the worst picture possible.

Maybe not though, it is hard to overcome assumption bias. :coffeepap:
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I think people like this is actually where most of Trump's support comes from. It's the far right who regardless of how complicit they are in all of this are remaining silent and these people are the people who are making the most noise.
 
yankintx said:
This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum. To suggest a Dem crossing over to vote for Trump, now that would be a conspiracy. Perhaps that is what Trumps sham Election Senate Committee was looking for, it took them a year to figure out no Dem was dumb enough to vote for Donald Trump. :doh
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Hmm... I think that your "undisclosed" lean just got disclosed.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
Nope. Lots of people I know were disgruntled Democrats who voted for Trump, or were at one point Democrats.
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How many of them enjoyed being called deplorable and being otherwise dehumanized because they didn't two the party line?
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm... I think that your "undisclosed" lean just got disclosed.
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There's a lot of people who are embarrassed to call themselves liberal/socialist/progressive while simultaneously being blatant leftwing partisans. That's why it's easy to see why libertarians/centrists/moderates would vote for Trump but the partisans can't imagine such a thing.
 
It's amazing.

Even with how highly dysfunctional and incompetent his first year has been, they are still deluded out of their minds that things are going well.

The only way for Democrats to win is to come out in massive numbers, because these kind of people will never wake-up.
 
reinoe said:
There's a lot of people who are embarrassed to call themselves liberal/socialist/progressive while simultaneously being blatant leftwing partisans. That's why it's easy to see why libertarians/centrists/moderates would vote for Trump but the partisans can't imagine such a thing.
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When I lived in a very blue state I registered as a demorat so that I could vote for the weakest candidate in the primary. It seldom seemed to work, incumbents often ran unopposed, but I thought it worth a try.
 
reinoe said:
There's a lot of people who are embarrassed to call themselves liberal/socialist/progressive while simultaneously being blatant leftwing partisans. That's why it's easy to see why libertarians/centrists/moderates would vote for Trump but the partisans can't imagine such a thing.
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No it's quite easy to brainwash Trump supporters. Just ask Russians. Or Trump!

In fact, I'd say that Trump supporters have been way more partisan than even libertarians!
 
reinoe said:
How many of them enjoyed being called deplorable and being otherwise dehumanized because they didn't two the party line?
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Well, we all didn't like Hillary Clinton for various reasons, yet only a few of us [moderates] have actually admitted that what Trump says on a daily basis is worse than that.

Yet the most crazy Trump supporters still maintained that we did like Hillary.
 
MovingPictures said:
It's amazing.

Even with how highly dysfunctional and incompetent his first year has been, they are still deluded out of their minds that things are going well.

The only way for Democrats to win is to come out in massive numbers, because these kind of people will never wake-up.
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Exactly. No human being who's worthy of living in America could possibly have vote for Trump and supported anything Trump has ever done while in office. Those people who don't agree with everything from the DNC should be removed from this country or executed in concentration camps.

/sarcasm

But tell me, how close did I nail the DNC Party agenda?
 
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reinoe said:
Exactly. No human being who's worthy of living in America could possibly have vote for Trump and supported anything Trump has ever done while in office. Those people who don't agree with everything from the DNC do should be removed from this country or executed in concentration camps.

/sarcasm

But tell me, how close did I nail the DNC Party agenda?
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I'm sorry, I forgot the memo, how dare I question conservatives voters and their thinking!

Only conservatives are allowed to express disapproval with the current state of affairs, or point out what they consider to be illogical thinking in others. And we must agree with with the grievances of conservative voters, never ever questioning whether they are based in any sort facts.

/sarcasm.

How close did I get to the conservative double standards in national dialogue?
 
Glen Contrarian said:
Come now, CA - you know as well as I do that it's every bit as easy to find those who voted for Trump, who sorely regret doing so now, and who would never do so again. That's the nature of the internet - you can always find someone who thinks as you do, or who thinks the way you believe they should. It's a confirmation-bias tool of epic scale.
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...And yet for some strange reason CNN in panel after panel seems unable to do so. :roll:

This was another CNN panel, and one would hope that they would have mentioned the parameters to the "random" selection of person's seeking to be on it (without trying to stack the panel by pre-screening specifically for Trump opponents) before selecting them. They always seem so surprised and confused by not being able to find any of those "Trump regretor's" you keep touting.

In fact, it is clear that the panel commentary was edited by CNN to limit the damage, selecting those answers they thought most reflective of all respondents while least problematic for use in the broadcast.

It was the CNN summation...

"One year later these voters couldn't be happier, they see achievement. Most of all they see a President just like them."
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...I used in the OP.

The rest of your "KGB word over..." is a red herring with nothing to do with the OP. So forgive me if I ignore it.
 
Captain Adverse said:
I just ran across this video which may be an eye-opener to those who think Trump has lost any support among Democratic crossover voters.



Each issue was raised; Immigration, Racism, Trump Tweets, Trump lies, Economics, Media bias.

"One year later these voters couldn't be happier, they see achievement. Most of all they see a President just like them."

Perhaps this will open the eyes of "resistors" to the reality of what maintains Trump's support among those who voted for him despite all the MSM propaganda efforts to paint his Administration in the worst picture possible.

Maybe not though, it is hard to overcome assumption bias. :coffeepap:
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Persuasion works to one degree or another on everybody, regardless of ideology.

And followers crave a leader.

Somebody to make them feel safe and guided.

And conmen know this. And exploit it.

Unfortunately they will also perform amazing mental gymnastics to avoid admitting they followed the wrong person.

Comments know this too.

So even when the other shoe drops, they'll never admit they were wrong in the first place.

Which explains why conmen often hit the same mark more than once.

Its easier to accept a pretty lie than an ugly truth.

This whole trump debacle has reduced my respect for my fellow man dramatically.

Which is sad.
 
MovingPictures said:
I'm sorry, I forgot the memo, how dare I question conservatives voters and their thinking!
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You're not questioning conservative voters. Your doubting registered Democrats and former Democrats despite multiple eye-witnesses and even people in this very thread confirming what's being said. The rest of your post is not even worthy of acknowledging.
 
MovingPictures said:
It's amazing.

Even with how highly dysfunctional and incompetent his first year has been, they are still deluded out of their minds that things are going well.

The only way for Democrats to win is to come out in massive numbers, because these kind of people will never wake-up.
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A LOT of money was spent conditioning them to their position.

Persuasion is a ten billion dollar a year industry not counting those in direct employ of businesses and every single political operation.

If it didn't work they wouldn't spend that kind of money, year in and year out.
 
reinoe said:
Exactly. No human being who's worthy of living in America could possibly have vote for Trump and supported anything Trump has ever done while in office. Those people who don't agree with everything from the DNC should be removed from this country or executed in concentration camps.

/sarcasm

But tell me, how close did I nail the DNC Party agenda?
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Nah. Just a little deprogramming.
 
What if...? said:
Persuasion works to one degree or another on everybody, regardless of ideology.

And followers crave a leader.

Somebody to make them feel safe and guided.

And conmen know this. And exploit it.

Unfortunately they will also perform amazing mental gymnastics to avoid admitting they followed the wrong person.

Comments know this too.

So even when the other shoe drops, they'll never admit they were wrong in the first place.

Which explains why conmen often hit the same mark more than once.

Its easier to accept a pretty lie than an ugly truth.

This whole trump debacle has reduced my respect for my fellow man dramatically.

Which is sad.
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Every one of your stated "sentiments" can as easily be attributed to many on your side of the argument.

In fact, it is just more of the "deluded, racist, sexist, etc., etc. Trumpsters gonna love that Trump" ad hominin responsive viewpoint that prevents any kind of rational discussion.
 
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