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7. I think it is a losing battle for several reasons -
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 01:48 PM
Jul 2016

1) So many Trump supporters are racist, misogynist, and sexist. If you give them proof positive, they will refuse to believe you. It is as simple as that.
2) Trump knew early on that a shit storm of major proportions would get out in the media about his past crap, so he started with the "media can't be trusted" campaign almost from the beginning.
3) If you have your supporters believe that the media simply can't be trusted, where else do they have to turn for information (the truth)?

Personally, in my experience here in red country, it just doesn't matter. These people will ONLY listen to what they want to hear. I'm a woman, a nice one, and I never ram my opinions down other people's throats, but the times when I've stood up for Hillary and Obama because the hatred was so incredible (and I felt relatively safe in a public environment), I've been physically threatened. It doesn't matter what you say or how you phrase it, their minds are closed shut.

I'm simply waiting for them to all die off. I really think the majority of this vitriol is coming from old, white men.

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