Hey CP!
canpakes wrote:Ceeboo wrote:Let me see if I can pick one person out of the crowd and drill down a bit. Okay there is a tall Mexican fellow in a silk yellow shirt doing the hustle, do you see him?. He voted for Trump because he is a small business owner with three kids and (in his opinion - right or wrong) Trump would create a path for him to be able to afford health insurance for the three people he loves most on planet earth. Something he can't afford now.
So he exercises his constitution right to vote and he votes for Trump.
Our hypothetical voter above had a choice between a candidate who has been involved with the health care and insurance debate and has worked on proposals and possible solutions, flawed or otherwise. The other candidate stood with the folks who stomped their feet and loudly proclaimed how they were going to tear down the recent changes to the system
Obviously, given how you have laid out the choices that our dancer in the silk shirt had, you create a scenario that dismisses and ignores his opinion (right or wrong) He believes (for whatever reason) that a Hillary victory would have resulted in his inability to provide health care for his three children. It doesn't matter what your opinions on the subject are - or my opinions are on the subject - The ONLY thing that matters to our Mexican friend when he enters the voting booth is WHAT HIS OPINIONS ARE. And his opinions, just the a great may of us, are formed by his life, his personal experiences, his value system, his worldview, his beliefs, etc etc.
So how did our hypothetical voter above arrive at his decision? This is the question that makes other non-Trump voters (NTVs, for brevity here on out) scratch their heads with wonder.
Do all 30 million Trump voters make them scratch their heads with wonder? Do you think Hillary voters would cause other Americans to scratch their heads and wonder?
And this question comes up again and again. Vote for Hillary, when her immoral husband got a blow job from an intern?
That's a distracting proposal. Generally speaking (not the exceptions that can be trotted out on either side) I would place the number of Americans that didn't vote for Hillary because her husband got a blow job decades ago at around 83.
In other words, the reasons given for rejecting Clinton also rule out Trump,
In some aspects, I agree. In other aspects, I don't agree. As I have said, I personally could not support either candidate but I recognize that my personal opinions/views are only mine. Each and every one of my fellow Americans have every right and freedom to formulate theirs. They ought to be able to vote any way they choose without condemnation - It is their personal choice, just like it's yours or mine.
So what are the actual underlying reasons that are driving some voters to pick one over the other?
[/quote] I don't know, I can only share my reasons but I am quite confident that the list of possible reasons for American citizens collectively in quite long. The danger, in my opinion, is to apply reasons upon huge numbers of diverse people (either side) when we don't know the reasons/reason - We may never know the reason/reasons - And to be frank, we ought not be as arrogant as to demand knowing the reason/reasons why any particular individual voted the way they did - or didn't.
We have elections - we vote - we get results. In every election, about half of our citizens are pleased and about half of our citizens are not. That's how it works.
ETA - Sorry about how this confusing post came out - I obviously hit a wrong key somewhere.
