In a NY Times poll only Bekki, Nino, and Chris of out of 10 former Trumpers who could end up voting for Biden think saving American democracy is the most important issue, by Hal Brown, MSW

In ‘He Lost Me’: Why 10 Voters Who Backed Trump in 2016 and 2020 Have Moved On” the NY Times surveyed 10 voters who potentially could vote for Biden.

The article beings:

If we’ve seen an enduring trend from the Republican presidential primaries this winter, it’s that a sizable fraction of G.O.P. voters don’t want Donald Trump as their nominee again. Why is that? And what do these people — who made up 20 to 30 percent of primary voters in some states — think of the Republican Party and the issues facing the country?

For our latest Times Opinion focus group, we gathered 10 independents and Republicans who voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and 2020 but who aren’t supporting him this time around to explore when he lost them.

What’s clear is that Mr. Trump is no longer the outsider voice that resonated with these voters in 2016.

Below: In answer to the question what was most important to them in the election these are the responses:

I suppose I should be reassued that at least Bekki, Nino, and Chris answered American democracy

Andrew and James said it was the border and immigration. But Nate, Chrsti, Reggie, Jeff, and Jamie who said the economy might as well be stuck in the post Great Depression era living on potatoes, sending their children out to walk the railroad tracks to scronge for pieces of coal that fall off passing trains, and seeing lining up outside of soup kitchens to get their one meal of the day.

There is only one issue that will actually have an negative impact on the lives of any of these 10 people should Trump be reelected unless they decide to join the MAGA party and wear his armband.

The only important issue that should inform how former Trumpers vote is how he will turn the United States into a dictatorship. Are the seven people who don’t see this just dumb, brainwashed by Fox News, egregiously uniformed, or don’t they care, or some or all of these? There”s no way to tell except we might assume that if they follow the news at all they are probably getting Fox News propaganda and nothing else.

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One response to “In a NY Times poll only Bekki, Nino, and Chris of out of 10 former Trumpers who could end up voting for Biden think saving American democracy is the most important issue, by Hal Brown, MSW”

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    This is the core of the addicted brain.

    It requires a nidus of thought that takes it from its simple form of reticence to a reactive, distorted, pugilist capacity.

    Perhaps, the thought is about a person, or a place, or a thing. If that trigger moves the person to speak, to act, to respond to the outside world, rather than continue its self-contemplation, it is a hardship that the brain of the person must rail against and overcome.

    The reward and pleasure pathway is also the survival pathway. It convinces its overseer, the brain within the person, that survival depends on following its instruction at any given moment in time, at any given opportunity. It gets an overwhelming minority vote in the life decisions of an addict.

    Cults, cultism, scams, schemes and confidence manipulations are all capable of reaching that minority vote within the brain, moving it to believe in the innocence and necessity of listening to the minority vote and responding to it, and in a number of instances, the minority vote is fatal.

    Drugs find this pathway and give it louder voice and greater potency in controlling the rest of the brain. Drugs of abuse develop a kinship with this minority vote. Cultism relies on this kinship aspect.

    We offer, “Say no to drugs”, and this is a juvenile conceptualization, one that translates for all more simple minded and less concerned brains. We focus the argument on the developing brain, because its continuum of development is so easily disrupted by the introduction of addictive elements.

    Yet, upon the threshold of adulthood, we offer several addictive elements. We provide cellular tech, we provide connectivity to everything and all things. We disrupt the human brain, meaning, we provide the nidus that takes us from reticence to hostility, argument, combat and self-destructive pathways. These creatures are what I call ergonomic, because they stimulate unneeded energies within the human mind and imagination.

    The paradox is to discriminate among the intoxicants, all the various chemical and physical elements that arrive at the windowsill of the reward pathway and offer their availability as both reward and survival. Human brains do not wish for conflict. But once displaced by an ergonomic creature, we have few ways of emotionally dealing with the message delivered.

    What offers common respite from a brutally noisy, chaotic and fast-paced world is what every treatment facility attempts to provide – a place where threat, trigger, exacerbation and migration from reticence to pugilism are held at bay. A place of refuge is held out as the locus of control. It is external. It is a bit overly simplistic. It is childlike in its simplicity.

    But our brains are incredibly simple but intensely wired biomechanical organs. Simplicity allows the brain to find itself, and the rest of the body. Simplicity is essential, but often, unavailable.

    Democracy is yet another way of saying, “I am a simple creature, needing only simply things, and all the rest is unnecessary.” The economy is a survival problem if you either want to spend more than you have, feel drawn in to imagery that sparkles and shines, are caught up in the addictive pursuit of an insane life, or you are uncomfortable in your own skin. It is a survival problem when you have absolutely nothing, but it is exceptionally rare to see those who have nothing rise up and adopt pugilism.

    What Donald wants is not authoritarian or dictatorial power.

    What Donald wants is pugilism. He wants constant adversarial presence. He wants the fighting. He wants to harangue, the viciousness, the ill-mannered-ness, the constant turmoil and agitation.

    He represents only one thing – the knock on the windowpane of the reward system, offered by oh, so many different addictive moieties and modalities. He is the door-to-door salesman that only wants your money, your capacity, your wherewithall, because, well, that’s just who he is…

    He’s the consummate con man. There’s no delivery of the goods. There’s no fulfillment. There’s no customer satisfaction. There’s no warranty.

    At the core of it all, this is a person with nothing to offer, holding out a mirage, getting paid for it, and moving on to the next sucker-to-be. That’s addiction in a nutshell. Don’t respond to the knock on the window.

    And don’t open the door to him.

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