# Trump voters explain themselves **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-explain-themselves/776307 "2017-01-04T13:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 199
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-explain-themselves/776307/199 "2017-01-10T17:29:34Z")
> [@What emotion best describes your feelings about Trump's victory/presidency?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/112): > > Obama never said he was going to take your guns away, outlaw Christianity, or replace the Constitution with shariah law. But you were smart enough to know what he _really_ meant: that he was gonna do all that plus institute mandatory gay porn viewing in elementary schools. > > Meryl Streep never mentioned the president-elect by name, but you figured out what she was _really_ saying: “The new administration will create a whites-only society unless you rise up and kill them _now!!!_” > > So if you can “read between the lines”, why can’t we? Not for nothing, but the above is a blatant strawman. Explain to me why I should entertain it? > [@](#): > > If I say the president-elect’s goal is to create a whites-only society, how can you fault me for “reading between the lines” of everything he’s said for the last… what, six years? Rather easily, considering Trump has never said nor insinuated anything of the sort. Are you trying to be a caricature of liberals? > [@](#): > > As a side note, speaking of his racism, here’s something I’m surprised doesn’t get brought up more often: to _this very day_, Donald Trump wants the state to kill [five black men](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/08/donald-trumps-doubling-down-on-the-central-park-five-reflects-a-bigger-problem/?utm_term=.77164850d713) who it’s been pretty conclusively established _didn’t do anything_. What do his supporters suggest is the reason he still wants these men dead? I can only think of one reason: to intimidate “the blacks” into submission. To say “You’d better watch yourself, because we can kill you for any reason, or for no reason at all.” (Note that this is not a direct quote, I’m “paraphrasing”). Are you looking for a serious response, or are you content to engage in histrionics? Because if it’s the latter, I’m more than content to let you do so for the next four, and hopefully eight, years. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > Oh, yes. Which is why he avoids making deliberately provocative moves like invading Ukraine or shooting civilian airliners flying over Ukraine airspace out of the sky. He’s real worried about war. :rolleyes: Considering that the US has hundreds of troops stationed in countries along Russia’s border, and missiles in Europe aimed directly as Russia, yes, I do think he’d be worried about potential conflict with the US should Hillary, a known war hawk, have won. I mean, explain to me why he wouldn’t prefer the person who would rather some semblance of diplomacy to the person who talked about doing things to antagonize Russia, and even talked openly about engaging in actions that would lead to outright conflict with Russia (like establishing a NFZ in Syria)? While I understand that it’s suddenly become all the rage among leftists to beat the war drum in regards to-- how did Obama put it?-- “a declining regional power”, that doesn’t make it any less asinine of a suggestion or a position to take. > [@](#): > > You attribute benevolence to Putin that he has demonstrated nowhere, and to no one. The talent Putin has demonstrated is that he knows a patsy when he sees one: [“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul.”](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1392791.stm) Where did I attribute benevolence to Putin? You’ve completely made that up. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-explain-themselves/776307)._