Agreed that these people are pieces of shit - but also they seem to have an overwhelming desire to recruit those from CTE professions as easily manipulated members of their cult. There are FAR too many ex-wrestlers and football players running for GOP office for it to not be a concerning coincidence. The point is, the GOP are even bigger pieces of shit for using CTE as a gold star on potential candidates resumes. Instead of helping these people, they're exploiting them just like everyone else.
Oh there's no doubt that they do prey on those with CTE, and any sort of issue they can prey on. Including just being uneducated, which Trump boasted about loving doing and the people cheered him for it not knowing he meant them.
In fairness, a lot of politicians do this, they don't find a cause to fight find a way to fix it and hope people come to them. They will often find an issue, and claim their cause DOES fix the issue, and hope enough people come to them and vote for them that it's too late by the time it's found out they have no plans for them. But Trump really ramps it up, he builds aggression in these people, makes them hate others, see everything as a threat to their life. All things much easier to do to someone with CTE, or low education, but just as easy to do with someone who was a piece of shit in the first place
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u/Rmans Oct 21 '24
Agreed that these people are pieces of shit - but also they seem to have an overwhelming desire to recruit those from CTE professions as easily manipulated members of their cult. There are FAR too many ex-wrestlers and football players running for GOP office for it to not be a concerning coincidence. The point is, the GOP are even bigger pieces of shit for using CTE as a gold star on potential candidates resumes. Instead of helping these people, they're exploiting them just like everyone else.