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---In [email protected], <awoelflebater@...> wrote : London (CNN)As one of the world's most renowned scientists, Stephen Hawking is regularly called on to help explain the universe's more mysterious phenomena. But asked to account for Donald Trump's political rise Tuesday, the British theoretical physicist was stumped. "I can't," Hawking told CNN affiliate ITV's "Good Morning Britain" program. "He is a demagogue, who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator." Well-off people always like to think there's something wrong with the electorate when someone they don't like gets elected. The trouble for you is Trump is giving a voice to the people who have been forgotten and sidelined in the rush for greater profits for management, Outsourcing and immigration really do affect life for the poorest in society so they get justifiably angry. It has nothing to do with "well-off"; there are plenty of people who have no idea why anyone could not see through the charlatan, the narcissistic blowhard that is Trump including every single Canadian I have ever spoken to about it. I know dozens of people in the US who are not economically privileged who see him for the fraud that he is. Desperation doesn't necessarily make one blind or stupid. Trump is not giving "a voice to the people who have been forgotten and sidelined ..."; Trump is giving voice to his own megalomaniacal craziness and is out for himself only. I think he has incited a latent hatred in his followers - it is a cliche and a meme that, through enough repetition, has stuck with reference to those who find him appealing are doing so based on economic hardship. His followers, many of them, represent racially bigoted and often heavily patriotic white people who are just chomping at the bit for a chance to act out this hatred. Outsourcing is the result of market demand. Those same people who are so outraged when jobs move to Mexico or India or Vietnam are those same people who shop at Costco and Walmart because they can get the foreign-made products cheaper. You can't have it both ways - either buy local or shut up. The problem of course is that Trump is full of shit, he isn't a champion for the workers at all, as his campaign flags etc are made in China, the people who he employs as servants in his mansions aren't even allowed to talk to him. He's a fraud but that won't stop people fantasising that he's the man to save them. They do it because he appears to be an outsider like them, with no inconvenient contradictory record in government to spoil the illusion. Trump, the billionaire, privileged, spoiled, born-with-a-silver-spoon-in-his-mouth rich kid is "an outsider like them"? Huh? He has no idea how the other half lives nor does he care. It has nothing to do with "outsider", it has to do with an inability to see that he is one of the most politically, morally and ethically corrupt people who is trying to pass himself off as a spokesmen for those who 'want a change'. The fact that anyone, for one moment, thinks Trump is "like them" has lost their marbles but it is not about that anyway. It is about hearing what you want to hear, ignoring the warning signs that Trump shows the world in spades every time he opens his mouth and choosing exclusion of other races and other cultures as a means to give yourself an imaginary leg up in the world.
