biochem wrote:I am getting seriously tired of these #NeverTrump Republican elites! They are making themselves look bad (and the Republican party with them). Trump is a jerk and the majority of the people voting for him don't like him. BUT what the clueless elites don't seem to be getting because "he's not our kind", is that the voters are mad. They have legitimate grievances with those in power and are willing to support a jerk whom they dislike because they feel it is their best option. The elites need to be looking in the mirror. They have made people so desperate that they will support and obnoxious jerk over them. By spending more time attacking their own party's candidate they look 1) like sore losers and 2) totally clueless about their own culpability.
While there are degrees of truth sprinkled throughout that, calling Trump a simple "obnoxious jerk" is sugar coating things to extraordinary degree.
We are talking about a guy who went on national television and said we should murder the
family members of terror suspects. Thus embracing state sponsored terrorism by the United States. That goes a little beyond "obnoxious jerk" to "dangerous lunatic".
To elites:
1. It's the economy stupid!!! Not your economy of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. But the main street economy. The working class and the middle class are still in a recession. You don't count it as one because the economic indicators you care about say it's not. But the economic indicators Main street cares about say that the every day economy is still bad.
2. The elites broke the economy, got rich, never paid for it and the normal people suffered.
You realize Trump is the poster boy for those exact "elites" you are talking about right? He's lived his entire life getting rich off of fleecing the middle class and robbing them blind and laying them off en masse. And he's not going to stop any time soon.
3. The lousy one-sided trade deals that the US keeps signing are outsourcing normal people's jobs while making the elites rich.
Again, you are describing Trump to a tee.
4. Immigration. When the economy is good, few care. But in this bad economy, people don't want the competition. It's like the lousy trade deals just insourced instead of outsourced. Good paying construction jobs have been replaced by Mexican workers. Those unemployed workers aren't happy. STEM jobs are being replaced by H1B workers from India and China.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-e ... RQ20150802"Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners.
A Reuters analysis of U.S. government data reveals that this is business as usual in the New York property magnate's empire."Again, the "elites" you are ranting at? Trump is a long time club member.
The difference is on top of being directly involved in doing EVERYTHING you are saying people are upset about here, he's also a dangerously narcissistic con man with no impulse control whatsoever who has spent his entire life surrounding himself with yes man who tell him he can do no wrong even while he screws up over and over and over and over and who now wants to be put in charge of the most powerful country on earth based on nothing but playing reality TV star appealing to the raw ID of a bunch of angry idiots. It's like that ridiculous movie Idiocracy has suddenly become prophetic documentary.
He'll quite possibly be the destruction of the GOP as a viable national party for a generation to come. Which I don't really give a crap about, good riddance until they grow up and become interested in actually doing the job of governing the nation again, but those other "elites" you are directing your rant at do care and that's why they're in a panic. Of course they *have* brought this all on themselves by deliberately stoking ignorance and zenophobia for the last couple of decades as tools to motivate the base so I don't feel all that bad for them now that someone has come along and used those same tools they've been weaponizing for so long and wrested control of the mob from them.
