Aseahawkfan wrote:Like, you, I don't like the way Trump uses anti-immigrant rhetoric. It's crass and appeals to the LCD.
The bigger problem I have is his followers don't care. They seem to ignore all the problems his policies are causing and buy everything he's selling. They seem to think everything he says is the gospel truth even when it is provably wrong. Random tariffs based on trade deficits are stupid, yet not to hear MAGA talk about them. The H1B visa program is the high end of immigration, but his followers are buying the job crap when they don't even realize like you are seeing that taking away great doctors, engineers, and scientists from other nations, the exact type of immigrants Trump wants is going to hurt them.
I hear all these old MAGA followers supporting Trump. Then I ask them who takes care of them at hospitals and they say more often than not immigrant nurses, doctors, and other hospital workers. I ask them who is going to take care of you if all these people are gone? They think young Americans are going to step into these jobs when young Americans don't want those jobs because Americans have rasied their kids to be so fricking lazy. They don't want to take care of some old person pissing themselves and needing all kinds of medical care. They want to play video games, work at some computer company, and hope the old people somehow get taken care of by someone...guess whose been doing it.
The MAGA followers have no clue how their country runs. No clue how much they benefit from science and medical advancement. They keep acting like Trump is the smartest man in the room. It's ridiculous. Trump don't care about them. Trump only cares about people with money. He wants more rich people here as they are the only ones that can afford his hotels. That's why he has his 5 million visa and even the 100k H1B will be usable mainly by rich people.
That's why I view Trump as less of a racist and more of a guy who doesn't want more poor people in the country. He doesn't care about the poor at all. He barely cares about the working class. All his tax cuts mainly benefitted the wealthy. Look he hobnobs with: rich CEOs, rich Arab people from oil countries, and anyone that has a lot of money. Trump would love nothing more than to fill this country with rich people that can afford his hotels and golf courses.
I do think he's a racist in that he hates Hispanics and Asians. I can think of no other reason why he'd marry an immigrant from eastern Europe yet go on such a rampage against immigrants from Mexico, the vast majority of which are law abiding and hard working.
The other thing that his followers overlook is that he has no moral or fiscal compass. He just got through flip flopping on Ukraine, now saying that they should fight Russia and that Ukraine's borders should remain intact. He was an advocate of vaccines when the pandemic first broke out, even wanted them to name the Covid vaccine after him. Now he's appointed an anti vaxer to the top health position in the country. Devout Christians overlook his many personal flaws, don't care if he was pals with Jeffery Epstein and wouldn't care even if it was proven he was screwing 12 or 14-year-olds. They also don't care about the bold faced lies he tells. The same people that wanted to impeach Clinton because he was a lying SOS don't care one little bit when Trump says something that is obviously false.
I can understand why some people support Trump. My BIL, for example, is a very rational person who doesn't like Trump any more than I do. But he hates the Democrats. If you look at the way the Dems have managed the blue states and the big cities, it's no wonder why someone like Trump is able to get elected. The Dems have absolutely no viable alternative to Trump and his band of loonies.
It's a bad situation.