Interesting stat, but not surprising light of r/K:
Supporters of… Trump are far more likely to have bad credit scores than the supporters of his Republican rivals, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
More than 20% of the people nationwide supporting Trump have a bad credit rating, compared to just 10% for Kasich, a new survey reveals.
Trump is the candidate on the right of those whose amygdalae are most active. Those with the most active amygdalae do not just see the liberal threat. They also see the GOPe threat. Trying to deal with liberalism alone has brought us no end of Fabian leftist incrementalism courtesy of the liberals in the GOPe. The truth is we have one enemy even more dangerous than liberals.
Bad credit comes from two sources – either excessive spending due to no concept of the limited nature of resources, or sudden undue resource restriction which cannot be adapted to. I would bet that on the right, bad credit comes more from layoffs, governmental taxation and regulation eliminating small businesses, and unavoidable consequences of the economic slowdown. I would also bet that unlike the credit-damaged on the left, you will find little use of welfare among those so affected on the right.
This resource restriction on the right is consistent with polling:
Voters in Tuesday’s contests expressed worries about the economy and a broad sense among Republicans that their party has betrayed them, according to early exit poll results.
As voters continued heading to the polls in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, early polling showed bipartisan concern about both the economy and access to jobs. Republicans continued the trend of saying they felt betrayed by their party, but only about a third or more Republican voters in the five states said they were angry with the federal government.
Notice how as Republican amygdalae light up with shortage, they begin to see the real threats clearer, and feel driven to deal with them by eliminating the traitors among them before taking on the overt enemies in the left and big government. That is very bad for the establishment, the illegal immigrants they want to use against us, as well as liberalism, and every other enemy of America.
The in-grouping of patriotism is back, and as the Apocalypse unfolds, it will only get better.
Trump is the right man at the right time, and he is fueling all the right emotions. Hopefully once he is in he will decide it is better for him to purge the losers of the GOPe and replace them with trustworthy conservatives, rather than deal with them and wait for the inevitable backstab.
[…] By Anonymous Conservative […]
Bullshit. I’m sick and tired of the endless claims that Trump supporters are stupid, poor, uneducated and (now) have low credit scores. I know a Trump supporter who:
1. has a 143 IQ
2. qualifies as a high net worth investor.
3. has a B.A. and an M.S. in the biological sciences.
4. has a credit score north of 800.
Trump’s popularity is a signal that the status quo (a hard Leftist democrat party with the republican party behaving as its wingman) is pissing off tens of millions of people who for decades have been increasingly disenfranchised, marginalized and on whom mountains of scorn are heaped each day.
45-50 years of false prosperity generated by credit-bubble currency debasement is not a foundation for a happy, peaceful society. For fifty years the USA has doubled-down on public policies that squandered untold wealth to battle Nature and Reality, from inviting the world’s have-not’s to attempting to make all racial groups equal in (some) outcomes and tilting the scales of justice in favor of the covetous weak.
White males built the world as we know it. The Progressivist cult believes that the cornucopia white males produced is a bottomless well of resources, and cultists piled parasitic people and ideas on the backs of white males with abandon for time out of mind (like 600 years.) The fact that this compound burden of parasitism didn’t collapse civilization was taken as evidence that it wasn’t harmful; in fact, it was deemed the ENGINE of prosperity rather than the crippling folly it actually represents.
We’ve reached the point of reversal. The last 50 years of rising living standards was based on the perversity of putting it all on a credit card. The “fundamentals” of our civilization and our society have eroded to the point of looking and smelling like a gangrenous leg wound. Like an athlete whose leg is in that condition, central bank injections of monetary morphine, epinephrine and methamphetamine have kept up the appearance of superior athleticism even as the body on which it all depends is utterly, irreparably ruined.
I suggest that those who think this is all sustainable are the ones who are stupid. It is they whose belief in unnatural conditions like equality (blank slate and magic dirt) are so potent that no matter how high their IQ they cannot face reality. They produce elaborate constructs, much like antiquity’s geocentric astronomers, to allow themselves to believe the palpably unreal and pursue policies that lead to utter ruin.
Bullshit. I’m sick and tired of the endless claims that Trump supporters are stupid, poor, uneducated and (now) have low credit scores. I know a Trump supporter who:
1. has a 143 IQ
2. qualifies as a high net worth investor.
3. has a B.A. and an M.S. in the biological sciences.
4. has a credit score north of 800.
Trump’s popularity is a signal that the status quo (a hard Leftist democrat party with the republican party behaving as its wingman) is pissing off tens of millions of people who for decades have been increasingly disenfranchised, marginalized and on whom mountains of scorn are heaped each day.
45-50 years of false prosperity generated by credit-bubble currency debasement is not a foundation for a happy, peaceful society. For fifty years the USA has doubled-down on public policies that squandered untold wealth to battle Nature and Reality, from inviting the world’s have-not’s to attempting to make all racial groups equal in (some) outcomes and tilting the scales of justice in favor of the covetous weak.
White males built the world as we know it. The Progressivist cult believes that the cornucopia white males produced is a bottomless well of resources, and cultists piled parasitic people and ideas on the backs of white males with abandon for time out of mind (like 600 years.) The fact that this compound burden of parasitism didn’t collapse civilization was taken as evidence that it wasn’t harmful; in fact, it was deemed the ENGINE of prosperity rather than the crippling folly it actually represents.
We’ve reached the point of reversal. The last 50 years of rising living standards was based on the perversity of putting it all on a credit card. The “fundamentals” of our civilization and our society have eroded to the point of looking and smelling like a gangrenous leg wound. Like an athlete whose leg is in that condition, central bank injections of monetary morphine, epinephrine and methamphetamine have kept up the appearance of superior athleticism even as the body on which it all depends is utterly, irreparably ruined.
I suggest that those who think this is all sustainable are the ones who are stupid. It is they whose belief in unnatural conditions like equality (blank slate and magic dirt) are so potent that no matter how high their IQ they cannot face reality. They produce elaborate constructs, much like antiquity’s geocentric astronomers, to allow themselves to believe the palpably unreal and pursue policies that lead to utter ruin.
I got nuttin………..to add to that, Sir, well said.
Is it your assertion that those of us “angry conservatives”–that are capable of identifying a narcissist when we see one on full display–aren’t conservative enough because we have identified a more stable (and frankly conservative) candidate than Trump?
Sadly, I think it’s true that as the amygdala of 35% of republicans light up, and they reach a panicked frenzy, their ability to reason (as it does during times of dysregulation) completely vanishes.
Stay calm. Trump has given no indications that he will rule as he promises, only that he will rule, along with a track record of broken promises (he even slips up and tells the truth occasionally, with frightening implications). No one ever looks back on decisions made in anger and says “that was a good idea. I’m so glad I didn’t think that through.”
I have no problem voting for Cruz, nor do I have anything but respect for his supporters, (of whom I was one). But I recognize one thing. The “reliable” conservatives who made their bones in the establishment have screwed us over totally in the past. Bush stayed on message well, and played the part. And he so totally destroyed the movement he left us with Obama, and worse, a population that was so morally decayed it might as well have been socialist.
I can’t say how conservative Trump will be. But he will savage the left psychologically, because he fights back with anyone who challenges him, and I expect the left will try to do a lot of challenging in the coming years – and get their ass kicked and be ridiculed to death each time. So I think Trump will be the anti-Bush. Where Bush would give us superficial conservatism, as he demotivated us and fired up the left, Trump will give us at worst, the exact opposite – an unknown governance, but a total demoralization of the left, and an invigoration of the right.
At this point, I think that is the best we will get, and the fact it is a slap in the face to the establishment is just icing on the cake.
I hear you. That seems really satisfying to my angry side. I also submit that Bush was really a progressive in conservative’s clothing.
But then my desire for self preservation (achieved via reason) kicks in.
As a narcissist, Trump is simultaneously sly and stupid to the point of self destruction for the sake of his ego. His timing and his ability to play the media while they play the multitudes knows no bounds. Trump cares for no one but himself. He is blinded by his own ambition over all else. He tries to sweet talk the people he needs (to reach his ends), and buy them with favors and flattery. If that doesn’t work he goes to work distorting the perception others have of the person he cannot control. You can know the things that hurt him most are to be perceived as irrelevant, seen as a failure (actually being one if he can hide it doesn’t seem to bother him), or unpopular because it’s always the first attack that comes out of his mouth anytime someone doesn’t tow his line.
It actually may be his undoing when he is torn apart in the general election loosing to Hillary. Then the Republican Party is destroyed, there are the inevitable losses in the senate and house, Supreme Court appointments that are sure to be liberal affecting generations of court decisions, and a criminal in the White House sure to move us closer to that socialist utopia. Then what? Too late for I told you so. Too late to take it back. Probably too late to restore the republic. All we will be able to do is watch it drown as we behold the impending apocalypse.
Trump is very brilliant. The general will be a good test of two things – his brilliance, and the effectiveness of going on the attack against the left, constantly. I suspect we will find that due to both he will massively demotivate the left, and will be much more successful than any regular GOP candidate.
if you think Cruz is not one of the establishment GOPe than I think you need to read your blog articles.
………as well as these links
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/
http://newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh280.htm
http://newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleighA.htm
I would even go as far as to say Cruz will execute the same policies as obuma.