Trump Supporters

[m8d]

Lol. So they're scared that they'll be treated the way they've been treating minorities all these years? That's hysterical.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...ivates-trump-support/558674/?utm_source=atlfb

 

[Indus]

Sounds like Trump is running a madrassa and manufacturing jihadis hellbent on jihad with anyone not white.

 

[nickqt]

Lol. So they're scared that they'll be treated the way they've been treating minorities all these years? That's hysterical.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...ivates-trump-support/558674/?utm_source=atlfb

Liberals are inclusive, and continue increasing different people into the liberal group. Liberals relish including all sorts of minorities into their group.

Conservatives are exclusive, and they continue excluding more and more people from their exclusive group. They delight being in an exclusive group.

As conservatives exclude more and more people, they notice that everyone else who isn't one of them, are potential competitors for limited resources. And that group of "others" keeps growing as time passes.

So of course they're anxious.

Add on top of that, their thought leaders, who scream at them on the radio and tv that they're the "real Americans", and that liberals who hate America and are traitors who live along the coasts, are coming to take their money and their guns and their (fill in the blank).

Nothing gets out conservative voters quite like fear and anxiety.

And their thought leaders know it. Which is why they never stop screaming at their followers to be afraid.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Makes sense. Same reason why people making a tad more than minimum wage are typically the most vocal group against raising minimum wage - it's because they're afraid they'll end up at the bottom of the social ladder all of a sudden, they need someone below them to feel better about themselves. There is a fancy name for this effect, but I forget what it's called.

 

[dainthomas]

Makes sense. Same reason why people making a tad more than minimum wage are typically the most vocal group against raising minimum wage - it's because they're afraid they'll end up at the bottom of the social ladder all of a sudden, they need someone below them to feel better about themselves. There is a fancy name for this effect, but I forget what it's called.

Sounds like a variation of schadenfreude. Not quite enjoying someone's misery, but enjoying the fact that someone is more miserable than you.

 

[Maxima1]

Makes sense. Same reason why people making a tad more than minimum wage are typically the most vocal group against raising minimum wage - it's because they're afraid they'll end up at the bottom of the social ladder all of a sudden, they need someone below them to feel better about themselves. There is a fancy name for this effect, but I forget what it's called.

Huh?

 

[pmv]

Huh?

Those figures don't _completely_ disprove the previous poster's claim, though. They don't isolate 'those earning just above minimum wage' as a distinct group, plus 'most vocal' doesn't necessarily mean 'most against, by numbers'.

But if there's any truth to the claim at all, though, I'd assume it just means some people in a very narrow band of income are slightly more likely to grumble about it than those below or above that band. The real opposition of course comes from those employing those on minimum wage.

 

[Maxima1]

Those figures don't _completely_ disprove the previous poster's claim, though. They don't isolate 'those earning just above minimum wage' as a distinct group, plus 'most vocal' doesn't necessarily mean 'most against, by numbers'.

But if there's any truth to the claim at all, though, I'd assume it just means some people in a very narrow band of income are slightly more likely to grumble about it than those below or above that band. The real opposition of course comes from those employing those on minimum wage.

If there was such a large jump, I think Gallup would have put it as a separate group. As is, the data suggests a rather linear relationship. I also believe most people would think if they're near the minimum wage, they would at least get some amount of compensating differential. The people I see most actively opposed claim higher income. I think there's a reason why FYGM is a thing.