Sat Oct 5, 2019, 10:08 AM
Star Member sharedvalues (6,765 posts)
The best way to break Trumpers' support
The best way to respond to Trumpers is to call them
suckers.
“You got suckered by this man. He sold you out. He sold the country out to Russia for money. And he sold you out to billionaires— giving them a $2 trillion tax cut that YOU will pay back.
SUCKER.
“
That is the way to reach Trumpers. They mostly have authoritarian personalities that depend on a strong leader who defends them. That’s mostly men, but also some women. When you first say it, they will get angry. But they know you’re right. They just want to try to intimidate you into taking it back. Don’t back down. Say: “tax cuts for billionaires. Selling out America to Putin. Judges who will help billionaires and screw workers. Polluting the air, poisoning our children to enrich billionaires. You are a sucker.” Sometimes they will yell back. That’s ok. Just get louder. This is the way Trumpers communicate with each other and it’s the only way to communicate with them. “Suckers.” “You got suckered.”
Their whole worldview is tied up in Trump doing things they like. Nothing cuts them more than hearing that Trump is screwing THEM.
Liberals hate to say stuff like this. It’s not in our DNA. But this is the way to reach Trump voters. Try it!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212548654The shitgibbon thinks that I'm going to fold in my support for the president because I get called a sucker by one of the biggest suckers of all time--a stupid leftist dipshit who was suckered in by Adam Schiff's lies.
Response to sharedvalues (Original post)Sat Oct 5, 2019, 10:18 AM
Star Member StarfishSaver (5,109 posts)
6. That's how I deal with them
I figured out a long time ago that it's pointless to argue with them because they are completely illogical.
So I just shake my head and tell them I feel sorry for them because they're being played for fools by a third-rate conman who's spent his life looking down on and taking advantage of people just like them and who's laughing his ass off at them now. And I tell them I know they'll feel really ridiculous when they figure it out, whether or not they'll ever be willing to admit it.
They want to get a rise out of us and expend our energy making us dance around in ridiculous arguments with them, so I refuse to to that.
They DON'T like being pitied, thought of as stupid, and dismissed as not even worth engaging with. So that's what I do.
The typical leftist dipshit who lives in squalor and eats cat food telling me that he takes pity on me--yeah, that's not going to sting me too much. I will get over that very quickly.
Response to StarfishSaver (Reply #6)Sat Oct 5, 2019, 10:22 AM
Star Member sharedvalues (6,765 posts)
8. You have put your finger on EXACTLY the secret
They DON'T like being pitied, thought of as stupid, and dismissed as not even worth engaging with. So that's what I do.
This is the KEY secret to engaging with Trumpers.
Liberals respond to persuasion and facts and data. But Trumpers are all about “winning” and losing. And if you say they’re stupid, you look like a winner and they look like a loser. Which works.
As for why saying “sucker” works— Trumpers have been told by Fox that Trump is helping them and hurting liberals. (They win, liberals lose.)
But the reality is that Trump and his billionaire friends are screwing THEM. (Ie Trump wins, but THEY lose.) They hate that. If you can introduce that idea, their support for Trump and Republicans will soften.
"And if you say they’re stupid, you look like a winner and they look like a loser. Which works".
Who knew it was that easy?
