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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Most of these voters we're talking about make their vote choice generally on a few emotional issues. Take illegals for example, they want them out because "they're taking our jobs" and "costing us millions". Except as we know the evidence says they're generally taking jobs Americans don't want to do (and keeping costs of essentials like produce artificially low), and they actually pay lot more in taxes than these voters think (many think they are actually leeches of the government). So how exactly do you convince them their incorrect beliefs are exactly that, incorrect? You can't, and frankly you shouldn't even try. Best to simply view these voters as lost and ignore them. I agree you only harden their support by mocking them, but believing you can actually convince them to stop focusing on emotional issues so much is pointless. This is what's so great about Canada, the most emotional issues in this country are basically 100% settled. In Murica, not so much.
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Good points...I think you have to acknowledge that they are upset for a valid reason (terrible economic prospects) and at least inform them that the real threat to their future doesn't really come from immigration as much as it comes from automation.
I agree that the best you might be able to do is emphasize, attempt to educate and/or ignore. Mocking is counter-productive.
Trumps policies will eventually reveal themselves to many of his supporters as asinine, give these people an 'out'...don't remove the potential for them to leave by treating them poorly.