[quote]So, just so I am sure of what you're saying, if you believe your statement to be true of all persons in that category than that is wrong to say. [/quote]
Where did I say that I believed ANYTHING was true of EVERYBODY?
What I SAID is that I agree with Sec. Clinton's politically ill-advised comment.
That about half (about 25 % of the population) are authoritarians who found his catcalls to ethnic, racial, nativistic, and ideological animus to be appealing. Research shows that authoritarian followers make up about this percentage of the population and are MUCH more prone to kind of "authoritarian aggression" towards groups unlike themselves than other groups.
THE OTHER half being people who are genuinely tired of the political status quo.....are feeling that the system is FAILING them as they work harder and harder each year for less and less.
Like Sec Clinton....I EMPATHIZE with those Trump supporters...BECAUSE THEY'RE RIGHT. They are only guilty of being desperate for change..and making a bad choice.
Because Trump is a narcissist, a shameless bigot, and a con-man.
...and we Progressives are partially to blame because we failed to give them a BETTER CHOICE.
Sec. Clinton FAILED to give them a better choice. Because she was more concerned about adding another award to her trophy case, than she was in speaking to the needs of that struggling section of the working class voter.
They've turned their back on Democrats....because Democrats turned their backs on them.
English
-
Your opening sentence about hypocrisy. That’s where I’m taking my information from. I don’t think your opinion about where we’re at right now as a country is far off base at all. Democrats did not provide a candidate that would sway undecided republicans.
-
That is hypocrisy. But my point is that I've never run into any Progressives who actually believe that. Only Conservative caricatures of Progressives, claiming that we do. Usually with the goal of wrapping themselves in a false, "oppressed minority" status...and to promote group solidarity on the Right in their usual Us vs Them manner.