Why Are There So Few Celebrity Supporters of Donald Trump?
It’s the 77th birthday of actor and ardent Trump supporter James Woods (pictured here). Woods’ status as a celebrity, coupled with his belief that Trump is right for America doesn’t make him unique, but it certainly makes him rare.
Sure, he’s joined by personalities like Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Jason Aldean, Kelsey Grammer, and Jon Voight. But, for each one of these, there are hundreds, maybe thousands, who find Trump and the con he’s inflicted on our nation to be utterly repulsive.
So let’s ask ourselves: Why are there so few celebrities at the “MAGA end” of the political spectrum? I would submit that the top entertainers:
• Got there by means of their sensitivity as people.
• Travel extensively, bringing them into contact with people from many different cultures.
• Need to get along well with others, which tends to weed out mean and hateful people.
Of course, there are demographics that are highly correlated to support for Trump, among them country music fans, gun dealers, evangelical Christians, tradespeople in rural parts of America, and the uber-rich.
We sometimes wonder why so few people are jumping from the Trump/MAGA ship.
The only thing that’s “unnatural” about eating meat has occurred very recently in human history, and that’s factory farming. When I drive past thousand-acre pastures dotted with happy cows, I don’t have a problem knowing that most of these animals are going to wind up under cellophane in grocery stores, or served up on plates in restaurants.
Let’s contrast the advice that Pythagoras gave us (at left) with the sensibilities of the MAGA/Trump people.
Does getting hit in the head disqualify Aaron Rodgers as a source of medial information, or is it simply the fact that he has no scientific/medical training?
I hope there are theologians with better ideas on free thinking, common sense, and rationality than this fellow at the Assembly of GOD and this particular Methodist Church.
Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini is best known for his first novel, The Kite Runner. At left, he’s pointing out that the region of the world from which he hails has had a longstanding opposition to educating women, and has paid a terrible price for it.
SDI, a SCHOOL OF FIREARMS TECHNOLOGY says:
In January of 1970, our 10th grade English teacher read the class 12 short pieces of advice that were part of a calendar, one for each month of the year. The advice pertained not how to be healthy or how to live a rich, honest, rewarding life, but how to be cool. The last line of each monthly suggestion was the same: “Eat plenty of burgers.”
We’ve all seen the comments of the QAnon-style conspiracy theorists like the fellow at the left. Are there powerful and rich people, perhaps Bill Gates among them, who are trying to enslave us?
