For me I don't take anything Trump says as a positive thing.
He acts unstable and that alone scares the Stock Market being
investors won't know how to invest. Where do I put my money,
is Trump going to put us in a war for 35 years, who will pay for that,
where is the losses going to be, where will be the growth, what is the
heading for the labor force will they have cars and all that relates!
This is stupid, to vote for a insecure setting for America.
To make America great again you don't turn it upside down.
I mean it's stupid like building that wall for Mexico... Why people fly over
in planes! Well I wouldn't want to walk in the desert I might die
I will just get tickets and visas and fly to Ohio for a vacation...
Taking a cab to NY to get a job! And that is the point really!
Why believe a wall is good! It's like these people never been able to afford
anything so they haven't been in a airplane their whole life, not been out of
town for 20 years, so they forgot about planes... "We always forget planes!!!!!!"
We are talking about a presidential candidate pushing something stupid not
even thinking himself about what he is saying, even with him flying in a plane
himself did he even think about it? "OH, crap... Planes fly over walls!" Nope!
So why vote for Trump that pushes fear in people. Fear is a way to control people!
So why be a slave to fear? Let it go and jump away from Trump and do better for the
labor force. Why make new jobs they can't get there with no cars!
~~~~~It’s science, stupid: Why do Trump supporters believe so many things
that are crazy and wrong?
Trump supporters suggested that Hillary Clinton had multiple
sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and even AIDS, and was using a body
double to conceal her ill health from the public. They also dug into
birther conspiracy theories about President Obama.
One man even
ranted that, “Barack Obama had big part of 9/11,” because he was “always
on vacation, never in the office.” (Pro tip: Barack Obama was not president when 9/11 occurred.)
To
liberal viewers, this whole display is boggling. These folks clearly
are competent enough to dress themselves, read the address of the rally
and show up on time, and somehow they continue to believe stuff that’s
so crazy and so false that it’s impossible to believe anyone that isn’t
barking mad could believe it. What’s going on?
“There
definitely are conspiracy theorists. There definitely are facts where
people have fundamentally misinformed beliefs. But there are also
propositions that they’ll affirm for a display purpose,” Dan Kahan, a Yale professor of law and psychology explained to me over the phone.
Kahan also works as a researcher and educator for the Cultural Cognition Projection,
where researchers look into “the tendency of individuals to conform
their beliefs about disputed matters of fact … to values that define
their cultural identities.” The project looks at issues, such as climate
change or vaccination safety, where huge swaths of people stubbornly
reject scientific facts, because those facts don’t conform to their
worldview.
There are a couple of reasons that people might embrace
flatly false beliefs like the ones on display at this Trump rally,
Kahan explained to me. One explanation is that they sincerely belief
these false things.
“People have a
stake in some position being true,” Kahan said, “because the status of
their group or their standing in it depends on that answer.”
“But
then there are other things that people will say because that’s kind of
like a declaration of who they are,” he added. “Part of the reason they
might be doing it is because they know it’s really going to get an
aversive response from people who have an alternative identity and who
know that’s the true answer.”
With birtherism, Kahan
continued, there are people who actually believe that Obama is hiding
the facts of his birth, but there also a lot of people who are saying
that more because it’s a “kind of a middle finger” and because it gives conservatives pleasure to drive liberals batty by saying these things.
As evidence, Kahan pointed to a paper by published in Public Opinion Quarterly in 2014 that found that minor changes in survey wording found very different rates of birtherism in the public.
With
some questions, researchers hypothesized, “respondents might have
viewed this question as constituting a quiz to assess whether they were
well informed about political facts,” leading Republicans to be more
inclined to admit that Obama was born in the United States.
Other
questions, however, might have been viewed “as offering them an
opportunity to express anti-Obama sentiment by challenging the
legitimacy of his presidency.” In these cases, aligning one’s self with
birtherism was less about actually believing the president was born in
Kenya, per se, and more about expressing one’s racism and hostility
towards liberals.
