Trump's popularity is slipping in rural America: poll
According to the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll, the Republican president’s popularity is eroding in small towns and rural communities where 15 percent of the country’s population lives. The poll of more than 15,000 adults in “non-metro” areas shows that they are now as likely to disapprove of Trump as they are to approve of him.

In September, 47 percent of people in non-metro areas approved of Trump while 47 percent disapproved. That is down from Trump’s first four weeks in office, when 55 percent said they approved of the president while 39 percent disapproved.

We will have a better understanding next year.

Thank you JaundicedEye for finally posting something that shows what I and my fellow moderators are trying to achieve.

Remember:

I may or may not agree with what you say but I will defend you right to say it.

As it happens I do agree with your summing up of the situation, delivered without calling fellow posters names.

Some don't like my use of Memes....... "|" "|" "|" ..........but I find a lot of meaning can be expressed very succinctly by them. For Example :

We cannot equate the Initial Hate Filled Personal attack. With the Victim of this Personal Attack, response.

Most mass shooters do not survive their own attacks; they either kill themselves or let police do the job. But those who have survived have shown some common features, such as narcissistic personality disorder being [a] most frequent diagnoses

That was the case with Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right terrorist who, in 2011, detonated a van bomb that killed eight people, before shooting dead 69 participants in a youth summer camp.
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A look at behavior prior to attacks reinforces this view. In The Wiley Handbook of the Psychology of Mass Shootings, Grant Duwe, the director of research and evaluation for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, examined 160 cases of mass shootings in the United States between 1915 and 2013.

Duwe found that 60 percent of the perpetrators had either been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder or exhibited signs of serious mental disturbance before the attack
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Yet, given that most people who suffer from these disorders are harmless to the public, these diagnoses do not tell the whole story. According to Duwe, the difference may lie partly in an acute sense of being persecuted－and an acute desire for revenge.

This view is corroborated by Paul Mullen, an Australian forensic psychiatrist. Based on a detailed investigation of five mass murderers whom he personally talked with, Mullen concluded that such killers struggle to reconcile their own grandiose ideas of themselves with an inability to succeed at work or in relationships. The only explanation, they decide, is that others are out to sabotage them.

In fact, Mullen's study revealed that the path to mass murder is rather stereotypical. All of Mullen's subjects had been bullied or socially excluded as children. They were all suspicious and rigid, qualities that helped to deepen their isolation. They constantly blamed their problems on others, believing that their community had rejected them; they failed to consider that they themselves might be the reason.

Mullen's subjects obsessively held grudges against anyone whom they viewed as part of the group or community that refused to accept them. They ruminated relentlessly over past humiliations, a habit that fueled resentment and, eventually, revenge fantasies, leading them to use mass murder to achieve infamy and to hurt those perceived to have hurt them－even if it meant a "welcome death" for themselves.
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Duwe argues that, contrary to popular belief, such gunmen do not "just snap". Although roughly two-thirds of mass public shooters experience a traumatic event immediately before carrying out the attack－usually the loss of a job or the end of a relationship－most spend weeks or even years deliberating and preparing to get their revenge. In Paddock's case, such quiet planning may explain the armory found in his home and hotel room, which he rented several days prior to the attack.

After the massacre, more than half of mass public shooters either commit suicide directly or provoke the police into killing them. This rate is nearly 10 times higher than for homicide offenders in general. Does this reveal, Duwe asks, just how mentally plagued these perpetrators are? Perhaps they believe they can no longer bear the agony of life; once they have "settled the score" for the perceived slights that have produced it, there is no reason left to live.

Mullen argues that the script for this particular type of suicide has become entrenched in modern culture, and continues to attract willing lead actors. If we are unable to use the knowledge we have gleaned from past experience to prevent them from taking the stage, they will continue to take aim at audiences.

Memes exist because of the attention span of the average person.............

Ozzfan, is your position that there is no need of discussion about statues of Confederate Generals having been removed and being removed due to their connection to racially charged issues while figures depicting Black Soldiers who engaged in an attempted genocide of Native Americans are not?

Because it's in the form of a meme it can be disregarded as a cheap appeal to emotion?

Memes exist because of the attention span of the average person.............

We cannot equate the Initial Hate Filled Personal attack. With the Victim of this Personal Attack, response.

As a former officer of the law you should know that lowering yourself to breaking the law makes you just as guilty, and therefore makes you just as bad. You know that taking the high road is the only way. And again, if you feel you can't, or if you feel people are getting under your skin, step away. Don't give in to the compulsive need to respond in kind.

As a person, who was employed in Academia for a longer period of time than Law Enforcement. My Academic and Law Enforcement experiences disagree with your belief that one should not respond to hate.

Not refuting lies and hate, as you propose. And allow the hate filled personal attacks to polluted any discussion.

Is just an enabling of the hate and more importantly. The hate filled personally attacking poster.

As in life. Silence is never the correct response to personal attacking hate in these forums.

Clyde when will you learn that personal attacks, insults and put downs are part and parcel of politics.