05-31-2016, 03:38 PM
Middle-class white people often have interactions with middle-class blacks, Asians, and Hispanics. Part of the interaction includes hearing what a horrible person Donald Trump is. People who think about how horrible Trump is will at the least vote for Johnson and Weld.
I see plenty of Trump bumper stickers and placards in the rural Midwest... so what. Republicans have a lock on rural white America outside the South as strong as the lock was in the 1920s. We know about the rural white South, too. Such may be Sarah Palin's "real America". So what! The "not-so-real" America does not belong to the GOP. The vast majority of voters are in the less-natural environments, the places with asphalt and concrete.
I see plenty of Trump bumper stickers and placards in the rural Midwest... so what. Republicans have a lock on rural white America outside the South as strong as the lock was in the 1920s. We know about the rural white South, too. Such may be Sarah Palin's "real America". So what! The "not-so-real" America does not belong to the GOP. The vast majority of voters are in the less-natural environments, the places with asphalt and concrete.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
