10-17-2016, 03:37 AM
Weren't people surprised by Brexit passing, though the polls said otherwise?
I don't believe polls anyway. I've never been called for a poll that didn't turn out to be trying to sell me something (either a candidate or product) dishonestly. Who are these pollsters calling? I bet they call very specific neighborhoods (which skews the results), and that many who plan to vote for Trump are too paranoid to answer polls even if they were asked to participate.
Trump has many things going for him. Some like the bigotry he riles up (a side many people have but don't dare show, at least offline, and he becomes their man). Still others believe wild, over the top conspiracy theories that they believe Trump can stop, or at least is not part of (so a vote from Trump is a vote against the New World Order pouring fluoride in our public water, for example). Others want to vote for him as a big "fuck you" to the establishment, and even to society, or even just at Hillary Clinton (for many reasons). Some are so shallow that they'll vote for any entertaining celebrity.
But the biggest thing he has going for him is that he's a Republican, and political bias affects the brain. What this means is that the Democrats and Republicans could have Beavis and Butt-head running on the Presidential ticket, and the hardcore supporters would be compelled by their own brains to overlook most of the negatives of their horse in the race while believing every wild BS urban legend invented about the rival candidate so that when Trump got the nod then he just got a "get out of fail free card" from the hardcore Republicans (many of whom would revile the man otherwise).
Speaking of which...
I don't believe polls anyway. I've never been called for a poll that didn't turn out to be trying to sell me something (either a candidate or product) dishonestly. Who are these pollsters calling? I bet they call very specific neighborhoods (which skews the results), and that many who plan to vote for Trump are too paranoid to answer polls even if they were asked to participate.
Trump has many things going for him. Some like the bigotry he riles up (a side many people have but don't dare show, at least offline, and he becomes their man). Still others believe wild, over the top conspiracy theories that they believe Trump can stop, or at least is not part of (so a vote from Trump is a vote against the New World Order pouring fluoride in our public water, for example). Others want to vote for him as a big "fuck you" to the establishment, and even to society, or even just at Hillary Clinton (for many reasons). Some are so shallow that they'll vote for any entertaining celebrity.
But the biggest thing he has going for him is that he's a Republican, and political bias affects the brain. What this means is that the Democrats and Republicans could have Beavis and Butt-head running on the Presidential ticket, and the hardcore supporters would be compelled by their own brains to overlook most of the negatives of their horse in the race while believing every wild BS urban legend invented about the rival candidate so that when Trump got the nod then he just got a "get out of fail free card" from the hardcore Republicans (many of whom would revile the man otherwise).
Speaking of which...
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