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Originally Posted by vienna
As far as "dismissal of people with a different political opinion.", well, you have to make up your mind: is arrogance a laudable asset or a damnable liability?
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That depends on who said it and what they said and more significantly why they said it.
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And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic — Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.
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It is what I said it is. That dismissal of people with a different political opinion. It's talking down to people to get other people to vote for you. I don't care who's doing it is a mistake and bad political strategy. It's certainlly nothing new but I think that it was a factor in Clintons' loss. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the goal is to get people to vote
for you. The arrogance comes from the fact that they think it's alright to say things like that because of a belief in a moral superiority. And that seems to be prevalent in US politics.
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..stands as a very apt description of Trump; so which is it? By your metric, giving arrogance as a major, disqualifying failing, Trump is not long for the Oval Office...
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that for Trump, ignorance is a bigger factor than arrogance.