Never Argue with a Trump Supporter

One of the things I’ve learned in my old age is never argue with someone who doesn’t have the ability to consider whether their perspective might be wrong. It’s a waste of time. You can spend hours and days showing them the error of their thought process, illustrating ad nauseam the facts, not opinion, the facts showing the errors of their misguided views, and still they will say you are wrong. They’ll just disregard the facts. It’s reminds me of people who stay in their houses during a major flood:

“I’ll be fine.”

“But there’s a 16 foot wall of water coming this way.”

“I don’t see it.”

“Here’s a video of the water coming over the damn.”

“Yea…that’s bullshit.”

If you ever want to meet someone who functions like this, then go no farther than a Trump supporter.
Try as you might you can’t bust through the diamond hard bubble of a Trump supporter. They are barraged with anecdotes of Hillary deleting her emails, killing Vince Foster, participating in a corrupt land deal, or lying about Benghazi. Never mind that no agency, Local, State, or Federal has ever found Hillary to be guilty of a crime. After investigations into thousands of instances involving the Clintons, all we know is Bill lied to keep his wife from finding out he got a blowjob.

The problem I have is I never get an argument about policy. I’m more than happy t argue policy with someone who has a different political view. I enjoy those discussions. However, these people are in no way versed in economic, social, or any type of policy what so ever. With them it’s all about how someone makes them feel. With all their criticism of being politically correct because people have too thin skin they’re the first to base a critical life decision on a “feeling.”

I have no doubt Trumps minions believe I’m the one who is delusional. The difference is I came to the subject with the idea that they may be right. I might just not have all the facts. Then I took some time to actually look at the information. I asked myself “Why is she not in prison?” “What is really happening here?” “Who’s telling me all these things?” If you think that Hillary Clinton is the worst thing since Stalin, then I suggest you consider the source of your information.

In the decades since the Clintons first burst onto international political stage, I’ve seen thousands of right-wing politicians, political rivals, radio hosts, conservative columnists, and conspiracy theorists, all with an agenda, talking about how criminal they are. However, I’ve never seen someone without a political agenda, you know…like an actual law enforcement agency…call them criminal. I’ve never heard of them being charged with a crime. Hell, the only thing I’ve ever heard from any legitimate source is that they have spent their entire adult lives helping those who are less fortunate. And there is a MOUNTAIN of factual evidence to prove that.

The other day I listened to a co-worker talk about how his uncle knew a guy who knew a physician who said that he watched the video of Hillary during the 9-11 memorial and she is a lot sicker than just having pneumonia. Man! That’s like bullshit three times removed! Even if he has an uncle that knows a guy that knows a doctor, I HIGHTLY doubt the opinion. The first thing I’d want to know is where did Marcus Welby get his license to practice medicine? I’m pretty sure diagnosing a 68-year-old woman from an image of the back of her head as she’s ushered into an SUV is not considered fact-based medicine.

These people are so happy to dig through all the horse shit because after 35 years the pile’s so high they’re sure there has to be a pony under there. I worked with a guy once that told me Hillary married Bill because she wanted to be President. Really? She knew almost five decades ago that Bill would usher her into the Whitehouse? If that’s the case, then I need to get to know her personally. I need me some lottery numbers!

These are the type of people who show up to their lawyer’s office to tell her what their crazy uncle Billy said they should do about their legal troubles. “Because he was lookin’ on that google and found we could get a million dollars for our lawsuit.” Think I’m kidding? It happens. My wife is a lawyer. Her favorite saying is “what makes you think your google search stands up to my law degree?” Still, they’ll listen to the village idiot every time.

Still, the first thing any of them will tell you is that with all the information out there about Hillary you have to make the assumption that something is definitely going on there. Because as they say “Where’s there is smoke, there’s fire.”

Well…no…not always. Sometimes it’s just a steaming pile of horse shit.

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