It’s aged and tenderized by now. You seem to be transitioning from savage to chef — it is a fine line between hot blooded and haute cuisine, you know.

I mean here I was, about to vote third party so that my elite liberal friends would still invite me to Georgetown cocktail parties.

Then Cato called me a “Cuck”.

Now I’m voting for DJT!

They were indeed intimidated by their “friend’s” credentials and so forth.

What a lot of people, who supported the Democrats against Iraq and Afghanistan, forget is that neo neocons and pro Iraq liberation people were already treated to the Left’s initial backlash and hate movement. There’s nothing they can gain from approval there, because the Left already burned their bridges.

They did so in Vietnam as well, spitting on and hating US soldiers and patriots.

For people that only became politically active or anti Leftist in the last 2-4 years, none of that matters. Because Iraq, to them, is a Hussein affair, not a Bush II affair. They weren’t part of the 2003-2007 fight in the nation (irregardless of which side they took in Iraq itself).

Right now people have no choice but to take up verbal arms against the Left, due to the instigation and invasion of the SJWs. But pro Iraq liberation people have been fighting SJWs online since 2003. Young Turks included.

There’s little benefit from someone who supported Bush II’s policies in the ME, to curry favor with Leftists. For the talking heads and NRO and other upper echelon people, it’s different, since their careers and social circles are stuck into DC. That’s not even mentioning the “Republicans” and “conservatives” who voted Hussein Obola…

What a bizarre theory that doesn’t even fit the bios of most people here.

Certainly doesn’t fit mine. I never cared in the slightest about whether someone went to the best schools or no school at all, nor do I care what the “best school” people think of me. Never did. My academic credentials also happen to be second to none, and that’s probably one of the reasons that elite schools don’t impress me in the least. I learned early on that there were stupid people at such schools and smart people with little education (and vice versa, of course).

If I had cared about such things, I wouldn’t have gone through my political change experience at all. I am already a political pariah with most of the people I know, and have been since around 2004. And if I had cared about such things, I also wouldn’t have written so many pro-Sarah Palin posts during the 2008 election season.

Plenty of other reasons to not support Donald Trump. Plenty. You don’t have to make up pop psychology theories to explain it.

Re Cato, a bit of turd polishing IMO.

After all the work it’s still a turd.

Lots of fluff and speculation. Are “we” the effete elites who don’t jump for Trump, or just chumps? Almost as “good” as DNW second guessing Neo regarding motivations of her still liberal aquaintances. I love psycho analysis over the interwebs.

By your thoughtful comments, I suspect that the vast majority of you are well-educated. However, though you possess undergraduate and graduate degrees from several highly esteemed schools, you still have a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to your peers or family members that have degrees from the truly elite schools that you couldn’t quite gain acceptance to. And those people whom you desperately seek approval and validation from are, to a person, no doubt dyed-in-the-wool liberals.

So here’s the dilemma and psychological dissonance most of you are suffering from that “Cato” outlined. The “neo-neocon” part of your brain realizes that any candidate other than Clinton would be preferable. However, the rational part of your brain believes there is no chance for any Republican to win a national election, especially Trump. Therefore, the pre-programmed liberal part of your brain resumes control, as you try to curry favor with your elite liberal betters by openly disparaging Trump and “considering” Hillary.

It’s not that the posters here look down upon the the “dirt people” that have been painted by the media as the average Trump supporters. This is where “Cato” erred. It’s that you know that if your elite liberal betters knew that you supported Trump, they would look at you and think of you the same way they think of the “dirt people”. It’s not that you think poorly of the “dirt people”, it’s that you don’t want be characterized as one.

To go further on this point, even if you have the elite educational pedigree and thus don’t have any elite liberal betters (just elite liberal peers), if you openly supported Trump, your elite liberal peers wouldn’t take that support seriously. They couldn’t fathom how someone with your pedigree could associate with such scum, and would likely write off your Trump support as some sort of ironic joke coming from a former Bernie supporter.

What you say is why I:
1) Don’t answer pollsters and I’ve weirdly gotten pollster calls this election season

2) Know the country is finished

3) Know that Trump is not the answer

4) Don’t know what the answer is to an electorate so dumbed down to the synergistic corruption which seeks to tear apart families and businesses because they are “morally right (or left)”.

The ends justifies the means is in extreme blob mode. I’m referring to the 1964 movie the blob.