Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Yes, and ignorance and hate would be at the core of that list. That's the issue here, Trump laid it out bare, and he always looked horrible. There's no good excuse. None.
I'm not the one to give reasons, because I'm not a supporter/voter of Trump. I'm only offering my opinion about how I think that the world of politics is never so black and white. Understanding where people come from, instead of labeling them and sanctimoniously putting them all in a neat little deplorable category, is valuable to me. Maybe not to you, but that's pretty much what this thread is addressing.
Serious question: What would it take for you to come to the conclusion that some times, even when both sides are calling each other villainous, the correct position is NOT half way down that imaginary coin? Would it be racism? Denial of science? Denial of facts in favor of what "feels" right? Denial of the equality of every American under the law? Denial of the ability for a judge to be impartial because he's Latino?
With federal funding going to private and religious schools, there's going to be a whole lot of people that have no common ground to start from. It's bad now, but it will eventually get to the point where we can't even agree that the world is billions of years old. Because one side will continue to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the fact-checkers. And some people, because of their emotional attachment to their friends and family, will continue to believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle.
EDIT: I missed the sarcasm. Point still stands.
Like I said, I'm not a supporter. The reasons aren't for me to offer. But since it seems you need an example.. I'm saying that if I believed that abortion was "murdering babies", I'd have a strong opinion on it. As well as vote for a candidate that I believed would stop it. Because stopping a genocide of babies is more important than a lot of things.
I don't believe that, but I could see, for example, why people would vote for a certain candidate because of that.