2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNot trying to be funny But what the hell is wrong with the majority of white Americans
(maybe should say majority of White Males)
Looking at the polls that have been posted with the large Latino and AA support for Hillary and according to the poll only up by 5%
(still believe Hillary will win easily)
Nixon's southern strategy lives on
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)RDANGELO
(3,441 posts)Unfortunately, most people don't really vote on the issues. They vote identity.
And it's not just the white males. It's lots of voters. Lots.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I think most of them are Republicans, though.
A psychoanalyst has one theory:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-prudence-l-gourguechon/could-it-be-a-mom-issue-w_b_9540738.html
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I think there is something deeply troubling, psychologically, to white men about a very powerful white woman. Almost all white men had one in their lives oncea mother who told them when they had to go to bed, when they had to stop playing, when they had to wash up. In psychoanalysis, the past never really goes away. We know people retain traces of early relationships and overlay these on current ones. A powerful white woman might just press too many buttons that link back to the fear and resentment towards the seemingly omnipotent mother of childhood. Sure men loved their mothers, but that love like all love is always tempered by ambivalence. And in the case of sons and mothers, a fight for autonomy from Moms control on the part of the sons.
Before I got too uncomfortable watching traumatic brain injury happening in live action, I used to blog annually about the Super Bowl adsmy idea was that they gave us a snapshot of the nations psyche. One yearit was 2010, and the great recession was still in morbid full swingthe ads reflected a strange view about the mindset of American men.
I think the phenomenon of white male voter dislike for Mrs. Clinton relates to a theme that appeared in several of those ads, and the psychic effects of the enduring state of crisis in which we live.
In one ad a non-descript man lists in a flat voice all the actions and concessions he is willing to make for the woman (his wife one assumes) who presumably is ruling his life: he will sort the recycling, put the toilet seat down, and comply with about a dozen other rules and practices obviously important to women and not to guys. But he will NOT give up his right to choose the car he wants. Here, his voice fills with drive and energy. He picks the Dodge Charger (crescendo/climax)!! He escapes the controlling, emasculating woman (just in time) with his virility intact, thank to the bullet-like, driven, phallic vehicle.
In 2010, I thought that the predominance of this thememen feeling powerless and controlled by a powerful woman has ripped away their autonomy and masculinitywas in part emotional fallout from the recent economic disaster.....
Hmmmm. Maybe there's an actual "pushback" reason--from a psycho-analytical perspective-- for all the "TINY HANDS" jokes and Senator Warren's whole roll out of thin-skinned, PETTY, SMALL comments!!! The underlying message: "If you're afraid of Clinton, and prefer TRump, you, too, have a little thingie!!"
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It goes back to mom.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)doc03
(35,459 posts)jobs. Was at the mall when this shooting took place, the first question they had was is the shooter black.
Many blamed the BLM people and of course Obama even though we still know very little facts of the case.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)with the people polled and those that believe polls!
glennward
(989 posts)long way. Friend is on FB but won't post anything political or anything praising Obama for anything because she has friends and relative who she says are rabid racists. She said they send her the most disgusting e-mails and post the most evil things on their FB pages about Obama and the First Family. She must keep the peace in her family and among her colleagues so she never goes there. She, herself is scared, of what might happen in this country. She has always been liberal, a critical thinker. She just cannot understand why so many of her friends and family love Trump so much. She never even knew how racist and homophobic some of her family were until Obama won in 2012. She says it seemed as though it was more than they could bear. He explanation was that the TeaParty had elected and wave of Congress critters who they thought would absolutely stop Obama in his tracks and wreak havoc on his last term. They didn't do a good enough job with ruining his Presidency and they are more angry about that than anything. I was amazed that by the rest of the stuff she told me. It is scary out there.
gabeana
(3,166 posts)what region of the country is her family located?