Machiavellian said:
TH3-D0S3R said:
Most of these rallies are to stay close to his base and not alienate himself in Washington, which is a smart move. FDR addressed the media through fireside chats over the radio, and while I dislike FDR, this was great and genius. Many people thought the same way you did about Trump in that he was wasting time and could be doing much more, when in reality it made him more relatable to the general public and showed he makes efforts to connect to the public. I honestly think presidents should do this in the future to show they are still tide and true to the people that got them there.
And as such, since he's around everyday joes, he uses exaggerated terminology. If you have ever used exaggerated terminology (which all of us have), I fail to see how one can pass judgement on it when they have performed the exact same actions they criticize. He's talking to the everyday folk, not the UN council.
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I do not know, that's a stretch to say that Trump speech and tweets is exaggerated for the everyday joe. That would mean that the everyday Joe cannot read or understand above a 3rd grade level. If that is the everyday Joe in America, then the country definitely has a huge problem on its hand. So the polls and stats that showed that Trump appealed to more uneducated people in America is spot on. Also, would this not be considered condescending. If you did think of yourself as the everyday Joe, would you really need someone to talk down to you like you barely passed 3rd grade. I would believe that anyone who was spoken to this way would believe the person speaking to them thought of them as idiots.
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As someone who lives in flyover country in your standards, most average joes graduated high school but don't give 2 shits about government in comparison to their daily lives. Why is that? Because Washington is in its own sort of area, and ever since probably the beginning of the Obama administration, we feel left out and ignored. Ironically you probably think flyover country is that shitty part of the country where everyone is dumb and cant do much, but in reality we have some of the best standards of living in the country with some of the wisest people you may ever meet. In fact, where I live we never experienced that Great Recession, or at least not to the scale that many others did. There were a few minor ramifications, but for the most part it was smooth sailing for an overwhelming majority of people.
What I'm getting at here is these people are brilliant, but only in certain areas. Most people would say doctors and lawyers are some of the smartest people in the world, but if you asked them to switch jobs with each other on the spot, they would have no clue what they were doing and would come off as 3rd graders experimenting. Don't get me wrong, a lot of them are smart about politics, I mean why do you think our standards of living are fantastic? But, Trump going to these areas and talking like a common man of the area really resonates with people. I mean who would you rather listen to, someone who reads of the prompter and clearly doesn't want to be there, or someone who may drop a crazy bomb or two, but enjoys talking to them like a close friend?
Do I defend everything that Trump says? Hell no. But do I understand how he presents himself the way he does? Yeah.
I cant fully explain the context similar to how I can't explain to someone what it is like to live life in the inner cities as a black man. You have to live here or in the general area to truly see what people also see in Trump and his appeal.