What to Make of the Age of Trump by Thomas Frank
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I think a lot of people voted for Trump simply because he wasn't Clinton. People need to realize not everyone who voted for him is on the extreme right.
Labeling double digit percentages of the population racists, sexists, xenophobes, is utterly useless. At that scale you are talking about systemic problems in the culture, not about individuals. Demonizing people with names like this will not help your cause. That is – if you truly care about the cause and are not just attempting to take the moral high ground.
We should be listening to people who voted for Trump and trying to understand their sentiment. We should brainstorm together ways to solve our problems. The end result would be much better for everyone.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. - Thomas Jefferson
Hilarious, yet unsurprising, that in /r/Lectures this post is dominated by pseudo-intellectuals more willing to circlejerk typecast Trump voters with "muh bigot, racist, sexist, etc." rather than actually sitting down and having a chat with them, leaving all preconceived notions at the door. Perhaps between the lot of you, you don't know a single one in real life. Even so, how can you expect to attain a genuine understanding of another's perspective when you are not genuinely seeking understanding, but rather an opportunity to "gotcha" and virtue signal? In regards to the mainstream media, as the adage goes - believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.
And those reasons are:
Racism
Religious support of political ideology
Sexism
All of which are things that deserve to be ridiculed. Ridicule of people is the most effective means of criticism, as evidenced by the success of satire over a course of centuries in political discourse. In short, people that do not care what people like Thomas Frank think voted for Trump (or didn't vote at all).