"Yeah, what scares me is there are many very smart people I work with whom I respect who are on Team Trump. Do they REALLY hate Hillary or the Dem platform THAT MUCH?"
Yes, they do. In my circles, the Dems are as equally reviled as the GOP, at least among the men represented. Trump has arguably emboldened some of the nation's most virulently bigoted, xenophobic, and misognynist voters, many of them both well-heeled and highly educated. His followers are not just disaffected white men who lack a college degree. There's also helluva lot of misogyny at play in this election. Many of the men to whom I alluded will let loose privately with "hell, if all the women are going to go to work, the men might as well stay at home". And every so often, they forget that I'm a non-white and instantly discount the abilities of any non-white male or a woman of any background who's promoted in their ambit as "an affirmative action baby". It's as if everything in their world is a zero-sum game. I've always been relucant to bring up race and gender inequality in this forum because most of us are beyond that sort of thing.
Regarding Mrs Trump's photo shoot, it makes her 70 year old husband appear even more "da man" in the eyes of his bruh's. My working theory is that they're living through him vicarously. They've somehow deluded themselves into believing that a vote for Trump will automatically result in the restoration of their priestly birthright. One of the perks of said birthright is the means to trade in their frumpy wives for a "Barbie" like the current Mrs. Trump during her modeling heydey. But, if anyone should be worried about surviving his first term in office it should be Mrs Trump. She's about 10 extra pounds and a couple of sags away from finding herself moved out by Mrs. Donald J. Trump #4. Men like Trump have zero tolerance for "sag" on the distaff side. Time and gravity don't promise to be her BFF's.
A Trump administration will be the most "phallic" in the history of the Republic. That's a euphemism for calling him a "dickhead" who will appoint a bunch of "other dickheads" to his cabinet and to head up the more high profile federal agencies. Of course, the occasional female "dick ridder" will land a gig somewhere as his "mouthpiece" in exchange for fellating the Donald and his crew on the regular.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
Updated On: 8/6/16 at 06:24 PM