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Crumpets
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« on: January 24, 2017, 04:18:37 PM »

There's this guy whose house I drive by sometimes, not far from mine. For ages, he's been a very stereotypical Paul voter. I've never met him in person, but he always has loads of yard signs supporting various Libertarian views - end the fed, abolish the NSA, etc. Once Rand Paul dropped out, he switched over to being a Sanders supporter. Then a Trump supporter - all makes some kind of sense. Today I went by his house and saw a "Black Lives Matter" sign next to his Trump sign. What is the overall voting philosophy of someone who is enough of an SJW to put a black lives matter sign in their yard, but still supports Trump enough to keep up their sign for him?
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2017, 05:26:32 PM »

I think that a lot of Ron Paul's base either moved left or right in 2016 and supported Bernie or Trump and a smaller minority supporting Cruz. Though my thought is that this guy maybe didn't have any particular love for Trump but just hated Hillary.
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2017, 12:19:51 AM »

There's this guy whose house I drive by sometimes, not far from mine. For ages, he's been a very stereotypical Paul voter. I've never met him in person, but he always has loads of yard signs supporting various Libertarian views - end the fed, abolish the NSA, etc. Once Rand Paul dropped out, he switched over to being a Sanders supporter. Then a Trump supporter - all makes some kind of sense. Today I went by his house and saw a "Black Lives Matter" sign next to his Trump sign. What is the overall voting philosophy of someone who is enough of an SJW to put a black lives matter sign in their yard, but still supports Trump enough to keep up their sign for him?
Many libertarians support BLM as they often believe law enforcement infringes on too many personal liberties.

Also many libertarians supported trump due to isolationist foreign policy, tough talk concerning the federal reserve, and his soft stance concerning gay marriage
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2017, 04:54:32 PM »

Schizophrenia is it's own demographic.
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2017, 08:00:45 PM »

Probably has no ideology other than hating the authorities and the establishment (and sees Paul, Trump, Sanders, and BLM as vehicles to defeat the authorities and the establishment).

Edit: alternatively, maybe they're just saying "black lives matter" as a statement of fact, not an endorsement of all aspects of the movement.
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2017, 09:05:15 PM »

I know Sanders supporters, that inevitably supported Trump (or Johnson), that to some extent support BLM.
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