# Trump voters are most of the people upset about staying at home **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 19, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134 "2020-04-19T18:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/21 "2020-04-21T13:04:50Z")
Now they want women to control their bodies , bunch of signs here > **[33 Signs From "Reopen" Protests Across The U.S. That Are 100% Real](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/signs-from-covid-19-reopen-protests-across)** > > "We demand haircuts." ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/22 "2020-04-21T13:12:23Z")
Oh, but we can’t say things like that! That’s just wrong! I guess it’s only asahi who’s the “sociopath” eh? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/23 "2020-04-21T13:44:22Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Now they want women to control their bodies , bunch of signs here > > [33 Signs From "Reopen" Protests Across The U.S. That Are 100% Real](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/signs-from-covid-19-reopen-protests-across) I’m trying to decide what I think about the protestors wearing masks. Seems smart, but not on brand for a “open it all up” protest. And of course most of the people there weren’t in masks. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/24 "2020-04-21T13:47:05Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > You know what a good pandemic really needs? Lots of partisanship. That way, positions can be hardened, people can be even more stressed, and we’ll all be sure to behave as irrationally as possible. > > Go team. One party is pushing people to keep to social distancing measures, pretty universally. The other one (with some notable exceptions) is pushing measures that will literally kill tens of thousands of people unnecessarily. This shouldn’t be partisan, but Republicans are, as a whole, so delusional, and so beholden to Trump’s lies, that it is. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/25 "2020-04-21T15:34:42Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I saw a meme regarding Michigan and the protests that said " how ironic that men are getting upset about a woman telling them what they can do with their bodies." Overheard in a workplace on the other side of the Mitten: “All those zombie movies were missing something all this time and we didn’t realize it. All the protesters demonstrating for their right to become zombies.” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/26 "2020-04-21T17:01:57Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > To add to what Telemark said, if Republicans in rural areas go out and about, that’s one thing. If anyone with the virus (Republican or not) goes about in an urban area, they can potentially infect 100x more people than they could in a rural area. In other words, urban cities with 70-90% Democratic populaces have the most to fear. > . Which is why I’m particularly astounded that all those rural folks made a deliberate decision to travel to the urban centers of their states and spend the day mingling unprotected in a large crowd. Then they got in their cars and drove back to their rural hometowns where they intend to “defy the Dems“ by opening their businesses back up. They’re trying to prove something. And if nothing happens they will feel vindicated and they’ll ballyhoo this as evidence that the whole thing was a hoax. It’s a gamble - but I don’t think they’ve fully considered what’s going to happen if they lose. ---
**Author:** ![Reason10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@Reason10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reason10)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/27 "2020-04-21T18:20:15Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > So if they go out and get sick and die I won’t shed many tears. How about you? Trump voters need to get back to work and pay taxes so that Democrats can continue to get welfare checks and food stamps. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/28 "2020-04-21T18:30:37Z")
> [@Reason10](#): > > Trump voters need to get back to work and pay taxes so that Democrats can continue to get welfare checks and food stamps. Do you have any opinions about the possibility of the coronavirus resurging if people start congregating again? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/29 "2020-04-21T18:48:26Z")
> [@Reason10](#): > > Trump voters need to get back to work and pay taxes so that Democrats can continue to get welfare checks and food stamps. Really putting the “sick” into “sick burn,” reason. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/30 "2020-04-21T19:10:33Z")
Long time ago, some people would hold Chicken Pox parties, where they’d get all the kids together with a sick kid, so everyone would get the infection out of the way at the same time. I think we should start calling these protests Coronavirus Parties. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/31 "2020-04-21T19:44:48Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > This thread reminds me of people who were gleeful over Hurricane Harvey hitting Texas and Florida three years ago (“those are Trump states!”), not realizing that the hardest-hit places were Democratic urban centers like Houston and Miami. And yet, they’re still Trump states. I’ve often heard people complain that Trump won the election because Democrats in key states didn’t show up to vote. Perhaps if someone builds a fire under complacent people (or they’re hit by a hurricane or some other disaster), they’ll be more inclined to take an interest in deciding the course of government. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/32 "2020-04-21T19:54:28Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Cite that most of the people ignoring the stay at home orders are Republicans, or Trump supporters? The ones on TV demonstrating probably are, but those aren’t the bulk of the people out and about. Based entirely on my highly unscientific observational opinion as someone who runs a cash register in grocery store… If you make a Venn diagram of “Trump supporters” and “fail to observe current health and hygiene rules and recommendations” the overlap between the two would significantly exceed 50% ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/33 "2020-04-21T19:59:38Z")
> [@Reason10](#): > > Trump voters need to get back to work and pay taxes so that Democrats can continue to get welfare checks and food stamps. It’s true. The coal mining towns are booming and The Wall is well over 5000miles long and 6miles high by now. You must be exhausted from all the winning. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/34 "2020-04-21T20:00:21Z")
Well, one of them is my dad. I deplore his politics and we’re on tenuous speaking terms right now, but no, I don’t want him to _die_. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/35 "2020-04-21T20:02:26Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > If Republicans are currently more likely than Democrats to demand an end to the lockdown, the obvious reason is that more of them tend to live in less populated areas where the risk is lower and the visible damage from the virus is harder to see, but the economic damage from the lockdown is obvious and growing. Give it 2-3 weeks. Of those idjits that left the relative safety of true rural America to participate in these anti-lockdown rallies a few of them will pick up the virus and bring it back to where they live, where they themselves will redistribute it into their packed church congregations on the following couple of Sundays. After which rural America will have more hotspots than an Australian bushfire. I expect more than a few will try to tough it out at home, some will die there and some will die while being transported to the nearest hospital which won’t be really near at all. The majority will eventually recover after suffering a very nasty “flu”. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/36 "2020-04-21T20:06:21Z")
> [@Reason10](#): > > Trump voters need to get back to work and pay taxes so that Democrats can continue to get welfare checks and food stamps. Rural areas pay far less in state and federal taxes than urban areas. Blue states generally contribute more money to the federal government than they get back. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/37 "2020-04-21T20:29:35Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Obviously you have a cite for this and aren’t just making it up. In a bizarre coincidence, it was the very same people who cheered while the WTC buildings collapsed. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/38 "2020-04-21T20:30:39Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It’s true. The coal mining towns are booming and The Wall is well over 5000miles long and 6miles high by now. You must be exhausted from all the winning. It has to be that big to keep the white walkers out. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/39 "2020-04-21T20:32:17Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Rural areas pay far less in state and federal taxes than urban areas. Blue states generally contribute more money to the federal government than they get back. While that is true, it’s also true that most poor people vote blue (at the moment). That is shifting, though. People like [Trump](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1245000074167541761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1245000074167541761&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fthink%2Fopinion%2Ftrump-s-infrastructure-tweet-makes-democrats-look-bad-party-fdr-ncna1176091) and [Tucker Carlson](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-mitt-romney-supports-the-status-quo-but-for-everyone-else-its-infuriating) are trying to move the Republicans towards socialist policies. Granted, they don’t call it that, but Trump is a big believer in the idea that if you call a pig a “lion”, then it’s actually a lion. > [@Tucker Carlson](#): > > Thirty years ago, conservatives looked at Detroit or Newark and many other places and were horrified by what they saw. Conventional families had all but disappeared in poor neighborhoods. The majority of children were born out of wedlock. Single mothers were the rule. Crime and drugs and disorder became universal. > > […] > > There was truth in this. But it wasn’t the whole story. How do we know? Because virtually the same thing has happened decades later to an entirely different population. In many ways, rural America now looks a lot like Detroit. > > This is striking because rural Americans wouldn’t seem to have much in common with anyone from the inner city. These groups have different cultures, different traditions and political beliefs. Usually they have different skin colors. Rural people are white conservatives, mostly. > > Yet, the pathologies of modern rural America are familiar to anyone who visited downtown Baltimore in the 1980s: Stunning out of wedlock birthrates. High male unemployment. A terrifying drug epidemic. Two different worlds. Similar outcomes. How did this happen? You’d think our ruling class would be interested in knowing the answer. But mostly they’re not. They don’t have to be interested. It’s easier to import foreign labor to take the place of native-born Americans who are slipping behind. > > […] > > And yet, and here’s the bewildering and infuriating part, those very same affluent married people, the ones making virtually all the decisions in our society, are doing pretty much nothing to help the people below them get and stay married. Rich people are happy to fight malaria in Congo. **But working to raise men’s wages in Dayton or Detroit? That’s crazy.** ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134/40 "2020-04-21T20:49:24Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Long time ago, some people would hold Chicken Pox parties, where they’d get all the kids together with a sick kid, so everyone would get the infection out of the way at the same time. > > I think we should start calling these protests Coronavirus Parties. Never mind. I just saw a much better term for the protestors: the Flu Klux Klan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-are-most-of-the-people-upset-about-staying-at-home/852134.md?page=3)