US elections

Vanessa9

Where I live (Switzerland) we opened a debate in class. What motivates a person to vote for Trump in the USA. The idea is not to criticize but to have a constructive discussion. If anyone is interested, we can open a discussion here.

Vanessa9

Through our media in Europe, we get the impression that his strategy is to criticize and release enormity that activates the emotions of voters who no longer seek to be critical of the content.

Ashley

He’s a criminal, a rapist, a woeful businessman and serial cheater who can’t stop lying
He’s got no policies and just doesn’t want to go to jail so is happy to be the project 2025 peoples puppet

He’s dangerous

People only want to vote for him because he allows them to be their worst selves - you can be ignorant, racist, rude… if the national leader can why can’t you?

And they vote for him out of fear about his lies about immigrants and because they think because he’s rich he can save economies despite his business models often relying on milking things, taking the money and filing bankruptcy

(That’s what I learned in school, we did the same topic lol - but it checks out)

Vanessa9

I think it’s a pretty good analysis. A little rough but good. I think we can unanimously say that it is dangerous for democracy.

Tomioka

He is openly sexist, and uses social media and tv to throw accusations without any proof. Most of them are completely silly but people believe them. Trump alone is not a danger. The half of the americans who worship him are.

BJade

Because using social media and people’s internet history it’s easy to find out what people care about, and target advertisements to those topics

Trump doesn’t need to be good, he just needs to make his opponent sound worse. Basics of politics now it seems

Nate44hockey

Taking advantage of an hurting population desperate for change, someone who goes against the establishment living in a two party system. Add the history of racism of the US and that it is an highly religious country it’s not hard to see how he was able to scam a large enough portion of the electorate.

Sean2001

Some people seem to have such loyalty to their party that they will vote for anyone. There was a joke in the UK that certain people would vote for a chimpanzee if it wore the right coloured rosette. But I have also seen posts on-line from people who have said that Trump is so unsuitable as a president that they have reconsidered their allegiance.

But I also think Trump has been tapping into people’s prejudices and saying whatever they want to hear in the hope of being elected, unconstrained by either evidence or what he has said on a previous occasion.

Ashley

Exactly
Trump has no policies… probably not even “concepts of” policies
He’s just trying to stay out of jail and will lying and evangelize to his poorly educated sheep