Discussion: NYT Article: Stop Shaming Trump Supporters

Ramos

This is a VERY interesting read. For all of you that are raging in anger with this Trump win (as I am), please read this & try to understand why this happened. Not all Trump supporters are these evil creatures y'all are trying making them to be.

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New York Times: Stop Shaming Trump Supporters

It turns out that shaming the supporters of Donald J. Trump is not a good political strategy.

Though job loss and economic stagnation played a role in his victory, so did shame. As the principal investigator on a study of the middle class for the National Institute of Mental Health, I found that working people’s stress is often intensified by shame at their failure to “make it” in what they are taught is a meritocratic American economy.

The right has been very successful at persuading working people that they are vulnerable not because they themselves have failed, but because of the selfishness of some other villain (African-Americans, feminists, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, liberals, progressives; the list keeps growing).

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The left needs to stop ignoring people’s inner pain and fear. The racism, sexism and xenophobia used by Mr. Trump to advance his candidacy does not reveal an inherent malice in the majority of Americans. If the left could abandon all this shaming, it could rebuild its political base by helping Americans see that much of people’s suffering is rooted in the hidden injuries of class and in the spiritual crisis that the global competitive marketplace generates.

Democrats need to become as conscious and articulate about the suffering caused by classism as we are about other forms of suffering. We need to reach out to Trump voters in a spirit of empathy and contrition. Only then can we help working people understand that they do not live in a meritocracy, that their intuition that the system is rigged is correct (but it is not by those whom they had been taught to blame) and that their pain and rage is legitimate.

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/p...ump-supporters

Thoughts?

HandsOn

Cherish

Put Article in the title or you're getting shut down real quick

Bitchcraft

Alchemist

No. They can drink bleach.

Ramos

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Originally posted by HandsOn

No.

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Originally posted by Bitchcraft

No.

Well, y'all (& other countries like mine that are affected by your lack of information) will keep losing EVERYTHING if you guys don't understand why this sweep happened. It's better to prepare with this type of information for future reference & use a different approach cause obviously the one used for this election didn't work (given that the Democrats lost EVERYTHING).

Cas

Told you.

konaa

Lmao. No, cretins.

JEWRJEWR

no

*giggles*

V3$$3L.

White people nonsense as written by some gentrifier/colonizer who lives in an ethnic neighborhood "ironically."

Scandal & Media

Elitism coming from urban liberals kinda did alienate many people.

cheap

NaughtyDog

no, **** them

Toya

Nope.

Scandal & Media

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Originally posted by V3$$3L.

White people nonsense as written by some gentrifier/colonizer who lives in an ethnic neighborhood "ironically."

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brIt-()nstar

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Originally posted by Ramos

Well, y'all will keep losing EVERYTHING if you guys don't understand why this sweep happened.

This. The insensitivity to the world outside of ATRL is going to hurt their candidates in a major way.

St. Charles

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Originally posted by Ramos

Well, y'all (& other countries like mine that are affected by your lack of information) will keep losing EVERYTHING if you guys don't understand why this sweep happened. It's better to prepare with this type of information for future reference & a different approach cause obviously the one used didn't work (given that the Democrats lost EVERYTHING).

Exactly. The way these people don't understand that this type of **** is what led to his victory in the first place.

****ing sickening. STOP shaming them. Instead, let them lie in the **** hole that they've created. They'll be running back when we elect our perfect 2020 candidate.

heartbeats

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Originally posted by NaughtyDog

no, **** them

amen

T.C

I agree

Jackson

No. I live in a red state where I know mostly Trump supporters. Not a single one had a good reason. They're trash.