My local paper called THE CANTON OBSERVER ran an article on
Thursday October 6th titled: TRUMP FANFARE: Profiles of supporters
at rally in Novi by Susan Bromley.
The author went to the Trump rally in Novi and picked 7
people at the rally to ask a few questions. I found the answers to those
questions very telling.
There were 3 males and 4 females ranging in age from 19 to
71. Some had masters and bachelor degrees, one was a student and the rest had
some college.
What initially jumped out at me were the answers to the
question: What are your sources where you obtain most of your information about
the candidates. All the responders
said FOX NEWS was their primary source…because it was balanced? Also
included were Yahoo News, Trump Facebook Page, Bill O’Reilly, Internet,
YouTube, Google, Drudge Report.
As a point of reference, I read the Detroit News, Detroit
Free Press, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and have a ton of other
news sources on my IPad (Time, Politico, The Daily Beast, CNN, USA Today, etc.)
as well as many other sources on-line. Yes I admit I go a little overboard in
my news sources but I do want a balanced look at issues, a real balanced look.
Saying FOX NEWS is fair and balanced makes you into a real ignorant and
unbalanced person.
I have stated in the past that people that rely on Fox News
exclusively are people that like how Fox presents the news (not the facts) but
the news the way they like to hear it or, put another way, the news they can
believe in and want to believe in and damn the truth.
These are people that are extremely biased, cannot be
persuaded by a logical argument or by the presentation of actual facts; Fox and
Trump give them all the facts that they want
to hear.
As for the question of why are you voting for Trump, the
answers varied somewhat but basically stayed within the circle of
misinformation that Trump has been promoting. They think he is a good
businessman even though most of his companies tanked. Another answer is that we
are no longer number 1 as a nation and we need to be just that. He is pro-life
and a good Christian…total bullshit. Get the wall built and keep us safe. He is
no Hillary and my vote is against her. Etc.
So what did I get out of all this? Well these people are not
open to actually learning the facts about issues. Trump has not revealed any
details about any issues; he just spouts off populist slogans and phrases like
I will make things great, you just wait and see. So these people seem to have
formulated specifics about issues that he has never revealed.
They firmly believe that he will address THEIR main concerns
even though he has said nothing about THEIR main concerns.
I think this phenomenon of total delusion in such a great
many people will be studied for years by professionals of every scientific discipline.
Obviously history has many examples of this type of behavior including Hitler’s
Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, just some that pop into mind.
The danger here is that these so called deplorables are
extremely emotionally involved with Trump and the message they think he is sending to them, to the point of total blindness
to the reality on the ground and I have seen this up close and personal and it
is personally very disturbing.
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