Oh my! Angry Kitty.
Yes, it would be easy to look at this roid-raging racist asshole like this: the Whiter, dumber, and more rurally zipcoded you are… The more Trump worshipping ignorance, xenophobia, and bigotry you will proudly display.
While true, that’s a simple throwaway however.
The deeper truth is this. When you are more educated, statistically not only are you going to make more money, you will have a stronger set of values, a clearer understanding of morality, and a deeper cultural compassion over someone who refuses to invest in themselves by continuing their education past high school.
I’ll tell you why in a minute.
Now of course there are exceptions. Plenty of people out there without degrees are highly intelligent, well informed, and make bank. But I’m not talking about the rock stars of Silicon Valley, professional athletes, famous actors, rappers, performance artists or inspired entrepreneurs — those born with an undeniable talent and inextinguishable passion. The ones who wake up each morning, inspired and hungry to take a huge bite out of all life has to offer.
I’m sure you can easily picture in your head the kind of person this article will disseminate — if you need a refresher? Go look at the YouTube video embedded below at the end of the piece. It is just one of the hundreds of examples showcasing the archetypal “angry White guy” so prevalent at Donald Trump’s hate rallies.
Now you’ve got the picture, right?
But have you ever wondered how this happened? How did those people become so ignorant, angry, cold-souled, and hateful? While there is no single answer, living in a microcosm of culturally regressive red-state rural communities surrounded by poverty is a big one. These people simply have never been exposed to the larger world around them.
It’s like this: Because those with higher educations are more affluent, they are more likely to travel — explore the planet. When you have a greater understanding of our big blue marble, you perceive things with newfound clarity, you become more open-minded, and an expansion of your heart takes place. The shackles of who you were before, are too tight for your soul to breathe freely. So you shed the darkness. You let go of your biases. You become cloaked in Light. This fabric of truth, a delicious mix of flexibility and strength demands that you stretch and reach beyond your previous convictions. You begin to grasp what’s actually real... an illuminated reality you can touch, taste, see and feel. Ignorance gets tossed out the window. What you once feared, now evokes inquiry. Your level of empathy lifts, your curiosity of another’s life awakens, and an acquisition of global wisdom becomes a cherished commodity. This richness has its own tribal currency. One you can trade heart-to-heart with all the other beautiful awakened beings living on Planet Earth. This bond, one not sold in a bank, is a contract, notarizing the Universal Law. That we are all in this together — not so dissimilar in our desires, needs, goals, fears, or in how and who we love.
So what happens to those who are not so fortunate?
A narrow nationalistic fear-driven life experience fueled by anger, jealousy, and greed. Sadly these “deplorables” are cut off from ever knowing what a blessed world we live in. Isolation and lack of access ignite the flames of depravity so common in uneducated White Right-wingers living in red States. Self-prescribed sequestration practically guarantees the ugliness of a closed mind and dark heart. How could it not? In truth, we should pity them. They are chained to an ideology which has enslaved them to their GOP masters — in voting Republican, this cage is likely to be their forever lot in life. (Deep down they know it too.) So instead of facing the truth, that being: deep-seeded feelings of inadequacy, self-loathing and fear of being racially diminished into extinction — A massive psychological defense mechanism takes over. These cancerous pits can never reach it to the surface of conscious acknowledgment, so they are swallowed and buried so deep, our “angry White guys” have convinced themselves they are not even there. So instead of attempting to root out their disease of intolerance, they dig in. They rebel in the only way they can… By hating everything they can’t comprehend, and then sealing their fate by voting against their own best interests.
You see when you’re broke and see no way out, you are afraid. Day to day life becomes terrifying. Fear breeds contempt. A contemptuous being quickly becomes caustic — and yields effortlessly into a state of hate.
Trump knows this. Matter of fact… he preys on it.
People who are financially strapped are stripped of confidence. Especially the Caucasians (because White people with their perceived entitlement, don’t believe they’re supposed to be impoverished) cannot cope with the idea that they are less than. So they lash out against the system they feel has done them wrong. They’re not able to comprehend the truth — that it’s themselves who have created their placement of stagnation. Thus as they are not able to create the life they want for themselves, they play the blame game.
Statistics don’t lie, it’s just a fact — when you cannot get an education, or you choose to not to be educated, you are most likely going to have less opportunity. So instead of recognizing what is so clear to all of us looking in — unlike Blacks, who get it and vote Blue — these people are stuck in their own personal inner-driven false narratives. Couple that with their pessimistic outlook on life, a fierce jealousy of others that they feel have taken something that is rightfully theirs, and you’re got some real mess-pots out there running around wild.
It drives these Trump supporters mad… literally.
So now, not only dealing with anger, envy, hated, and regret — we have a whole swath of our country, half a “basket of deplorables” if you will, who have gone fucking nuts! They have allowed their brains to be consumed by fear, loathe and lack. Heaven help them, these sad souls are stuck, huddling together in despair, and the only way for them to see the world — is through the eyes of Fox News.
Now check out this video of Trump supporters having an epic roid-raged meltdown:
