Closet Trump Supporter? You'll Be Needing These

[Dylan Lawrence Moore]

Next video up on Youtube. Stef finally gave me the proper kick in the ass last week to begin reaching out to my network. I made a fundamental realization that, because people do not change their minds on reason, they change their minds depending on what people with alpha status say--and alpha status is easy to acquire. Just act confidently and be ready to contend with whoever comes your way. You don't have to win every time, but the simple knowledge of knowing you bite back with confidence will keep haters at a distance and will bring others closer to you.

 

I realized that the simple fact of me openly and unapologetically coming out saying that I support Donald Trump, as well as being ready to engage anyone that challenges me on it (emotionally and rationally), will cause others to follow in my wake, particularly of the "I'm not so sure" variety. If this seed can be sown if those down the line, they in turn can do the same thing and find unsure people in their networks looking for someone strong to stand with.

 

My challenge for everyone, assuming they haven't done so already, is find a method of coming out strong in open support of Trump, back up your decision with reason and confidence, and be ready to entangle with the haters that emerge.

 

Here's the video:

 

 

And the text:

 

Closet Trump Supporter?

 

You'll Be Needing These

 

 

Hi everyone, this is Dylan Moore here.

 

This is a message for everyone out there who is just isn't quite sure about Trump, yet. You just don't know. You're on the fence. You like him, but you're worried about that one thing you just can't describe.

 

Or you're already convinced. You know that Trump is the way to go, but you don't want to voice it to your friends, your family, your neighbors, and your Facebook entourage. “Friends”, I think they're referred to, there.

 

That's okay. I'm here to describe that one thing for you.

 

That inner tension you feel is probably coming from the fact that you're finding out more and more that everything that the media has been telling you about Donald Trump is an absolute lie. When you actually went back to look up the things he said, the things he wrote on Facebook, and the things he tweeted, you found out that he wasn't very racist at all. Or misogynist. Or xenophobic. Heck, he actually is a pretty damn good businessman and he doesn't actually want to blow anyone up.

 

Even all the sexual assault charges turned out to be completely made up. There is not one shred of evidence supporting anything any of these women have said who have come out with claims against him.

 

And deep down, you know, that his arguments about illegal immigration, border controls, and welfare really, really make sense.

 

So despite the fact that you know all this stuff that the mainstream media is squawking about is a bunch of made up nonsense, and that as a rational, moral man who wants to see the dignity brought up from humankind, you're really getting that feeling in your gut telling you that this is the man to support for the presidency.

 

But there's that tension inside. What's holding you back?

 

You see, right now it's really cool to hate Donald Trump. Nothing will get you a round of applause and a pat on the back for calling him a racist or an idiot. It's just the hip thing to do.

 

However, the uncool thing to do is to like him, isn't it? While you know you're not a racist or a misogynist or a xenophobe or a warmonger, it just doesn't feel that great to have everyone call you that for suggesting you like Trump, does it? Actually, now that you think about it, what you're really worried about in announcing that you support Trump is that cute girl you've trying to get to know better. If she finds out you like Trump, you're totally not getting laid.

 

And your friends? You would be a laughing stock! Oh man, they'll be making fun of you for the rest of eternity for even thinking about liking such a buffoon.

 

Your family will just be shocked. Well, I mean, there's that crotchety uncle and that redneck cousin that you have who will give you high-fives and buy you a six pack of beer if you show you're support. But they're the crazies that everyone else is giving the smug shoulder to. Just imagine your next family dinner when all your level-headed kin realize you're in with the wrong crowd.

 

But all your friends and your family aren't really what's grinding at you. Even if you can't get in that cute girl's pants—it would be a swift kick to your ego's ass, but you would get over it. There's that one person in your life who is going to judge you hard. You know who I'm talking about. That one who is looking down over the fence into the inner machinations of your mind right now as you're thinking about this. They're going to be shocked and disappointed, to say the least. They've have all the reasons why you've gone off the deep end, and they have perfected the skill of interrupting your well-thought out arguments and reasons to let you know.

 

That person is one thing you can't describe, and he's backed up by your friends, family, your dating pool, half of your Facebook “friends”, and your co-workers. But it's okay, your one vote won't change anything. You'll just keep quiet and nod silently in appreciation for those voting, or unobtrusively make your way to the ballot box yourself.

 

Man, I'm letting you know, you're wrong. And it's time for you to get some balls.

 

It's time for you, after having realized what is right and what the proper course of action is, to take that course of action, and screw everyone in your life that you might offend. You know that Donald Trump is standing in the way of Hillary Clinton, who represents the death-nail of the United States, which will take Western Civilization down the drain with it.

 

Let me give you some insight on how people work, and why you need to stop thinking about your single vote.

 

There is at least one person in your life who is thinking the same as you are. In fact, a good chunk of your friends on your social media networks are thinking exactly what you are. They too are afraid of their friends, their families, and their sex lives. They've got cute girls they're working on, too. They're afraid that they're going to be the first nail that gets smacked with a hammer for putting it's head up. They're afraid they won't get any support.

 

And they're watching you.

 

They're watching to see if you're going to be the one they can feel safe next to. In this ribald intoxication of hypocrisy the mainstream media has proliferated, many of us have come to worry that no one else is thinking like us. It's not true.

 

You see, human beings are not primarily driven by reason. They're primarily driven by tribal influences. Out of these tribal influences, the one thing that everyone looks out for, the one thing that everyone likes is confidence.

 

You don't convince people with reason. Oh sure, sometimes people can be smart and they'll like the words you're saying. But what people judge about you by is your attitude and your actions. If you can find your spine, stand up tall, and not be deterred when you move forward, then you will generate a momentum that will fill people in your wake.

 

Thinking about your individual vote isn't enough. It's time to think about how your attitude and choices will affect the votes of others. There are literally millions of people in this country right now unsure of Trump. Liberals, conservatives, democrats, republicans, anarchists, libertarians, democratic socialists—they're all seeing the unfiltered evil of Hillary Clinton and they're turning to see Donald Trump making more and more sense. They're realizing that they may not have a country to vote in if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. They're looking for that one person in their social circle to stand up with. It's time for that person to be you.

 

There is still time before this election is over to make a difference larger than your own decision. You need to stand up and let people know that you are no longer phased by stupid bullshit. Let them know you openly and unapologetically support Trump. Make sure you let them know why. Reason is very convincing when it arrives on a platter of confidence.

 

How you do it is up to you. Write a note or a post on Facebook, write in a blog, make a Youtube video, send a text message announcement; WHATEVER.

 

Be prepared to get flack. Haters gonna hate and you're going to get all sorts of emotional attacks disguised as rational arguments. Be strong, don't back down. Know your facts and be work to deliver them. And don't be afraid to strike out when someone refuses to engage you rationally and can do nothing but call you names and twist what you say. Everyone is watching you. If you fold under the pressure, then your cause must not have been worth it. If you shake everyone off and move forward with confidence— you must be possessed with strong ideas.

 

Be prepared to lose friends, lose dates, and anger family. In the end you will have better friends and better dates (trust me, confidence will multiply your hotness level).

 

And most importantly: challenge others to do the same thing! Every person watching you has other people watching them. I don't think I need to explain the concept of exponential growth.

 

I've included a link in the show notes below to my original Facebook Note of doing the same thing. Feel free to use it as inspiration, copy parts of it, or even the whole thing. Send it to me after you do it, and especially send me the interplays you have with others who respond to it.

 

The country and the entire history of freedom emboldened in the traditions of Western Civilization hangs on the thread of this election, and there is still time to do your part to help save it.

 

Remember, posture is everything. Find your balls and act with precision and confidence.

[Satori253]

I've deleted my Facebook account, one reason being that I am tired of worrying whether I'm offending people or if people are judging me for wanting to give Trump a chance as president. Trump already won the election, so if people don't want to accept that reality, then it feels like a fruitless effort trying to convince them otherwise.

 

I was even accused of promoting "fake news" for sharing links from the Washington Times and New York Post regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center covering up 2,000 cases of anti-white hate crimes since the election. Since when is any news source you don't like "fake news"? 

 

As a Buddhist, I am unhappy with how polarized our country is generally, and how Buddhists in the United States seem to be onesidedly against Trump and his supporters, or at least that's the impression I've gotten from Facebook along with most American Buddhist blogs and magazines. 

I think I am being given a bad impression of what Buddhism actually is, a false image of Buddhism based on what American leftists who grew up in the 1960s counter-culture want it to be. I didn't vote for Trump, but Buddhism teaches things like compassion, tolerance, and non-attachment to views, which doesn't square well with the idea that left-wing politics is the only way. 

 

I've now come to realize that Buddhists are people of all political philosophies and parties, despite the negative response I've seen from white convert Buddhists to Trump: 
 

Historically speaking, Buddhism has tended to support conservative status quo regimes in Asia, going all the way back to India.  In the contemporary world, virtually all of the democratic countries with a significant Buddhist population are currently ruled by right-wing political groups.

Here in North America, there are large numbers of registered Republican Buddhists.  Many of them are Asian-Americans, immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who fled left-wing violence in their native countries.  One can only believe that Buddhists are naturally aligned with liberalism if no time has been spent among Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, Chinese, or other Asian-Americans.  Anti-Communism drives many such Buddhists into the Republican Party, as does similar views on traditional values, economic policy, patriotism, and other issues...

 

Most convert Buddhists already supported a liberal political orientation before they became involved with Buddhism, and convert Buddhism draws heavily from a section of the educated, white, middle-to-upper class demographic that supports liberal candidates regardless of whether the individual believers are Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or agnostic...

Even within this demographic of convert Buddhism, there is reason to think that there are significant numbers of right-wing Buddhists who largely remain quiet about their views, perhaps from a feeling that they are actively silenced by the strident voices of their left-wing fellow practitioners.  We can see evidence of this in the Pew Forum’s recent U.S. Religious Landscape survey.  The survey is flawed, but one area it does manage to capture fairly well are precisely these convert Buddhists, who if anything are over-represented in the survey sample.  Even in this survey that skews in some ways toward the more liberal end of American Buddhism, we find that 18% of Buddhists are Republican in orientation and 44% consider themselves moderates or conservatives, not liberals.  18% is about one out of five, yet the proportion of English-language Buddhist blogs, magazines, and newsletters that express support for Republican candidates is clearly far lower than this.  This should suggest that Republican convert Buddhists, a sizable minority, either do not have equal access to media to express their views, or feel intimidated into not making such expressions.  The lack of a reasonable argument for Republican Buddhism, therefore, may not be because there is no such argument, but because liberal Buddhists create an environment wherein such sentiments are difficult to express.
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/voting-buddhist/

 

 

 

Another thing I've noticed on Facebook is that Buddhists in Asian countries tend to respond positively to Ashin Wirathu, the anti-Muslim Burmese monk, because they've seen Muslim aggression against Buddhists firsthand. White American converts to Buddhism, on the other hand, seem to see Ashin Wirathu in a negative light, and will even take the side of the "oppressed" Muslims. These white converts refuse to see the simple fact that there is no majority-Muslim Asian country in which Buddhists weren't converted by the sword or killed. 

 

There are some white American Buddhists who are pro-Trump, but because of the common association between Buddhism and left-wing politics in the United States, they might be closeted Trump supporters. Ashin Wirathu, on the other hand, has been vocal about his affinity with Trump:

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2047276/anti-muslim-buddhist-monk-ashin-wirathu-myanmar-says-trump

 

I don't really know what Asian-American Buddhists tend to think of Trump, in terms of how many are for him or against him, but there is a sizable number of first-generation Chinese immigrants who voted for Trump:
http://supchina.com/2016/11/03/many-first-generation-chinese-immigrants-supporting-donald-trump/