I saw this pic of hateful drivel on Facebook just a while ago. Sadly it's not the most extreme, but it's among the most ridiculous. I responded correctly, but probably ineffectively, along the lines that the poster was an irrational, self-delusional, egomaniac if he genuinely believed that he knew what "everyone knows", and what they care about and what they like. Well, I was a bit kinder than that, so I guess my real thoughts are coming out here :-)

But after a few minutes' reflection I've realized that the poster himself may very well not actually believe this. I see at least 2 likely explanations for why any thinking human being would make such a silly post and actually sign their name to it:

1. If he really believes that "everyone" holds the same ideas he does (aka "everyone knows that") then:
   • He's massively delusional, given that he obviously encounters every day a lot of people who dispute the claim he assumes is universally accepted, and he is clearly following a political race that is almost universally believed to be evenly split. 
   • He's become so hateful that he believes half of the population are despicable beyond mere moral reprehensiblity. He must believe them to be actually intrinsically evil to think they like the fact that there is an unethical, corrupt dirtbag leading their country. 
2. Much more likely though, he's just watched far too much of MSNBC, CNN et. al. commentators... or, interchangeably, their "news anchors". He's probably been told 10, 20 or 30 thousand times (literally) over the past months and years that Trump is evil incarnate and must be stopped. Apparently this has made him so emotional, so frustrated and so fearful, that all he knows to do is spout the most vile and hateful things he can think of about not only Trump, but anyone who doesn't hate him. 

I think (hope, really) that he either already knows, or would quickly recognize in a rational moment, that the statements in the pic are nonsense. Somehow he believes them to be justified for reasons that I cannot truly fathom. But clearly whatever justifies this in his mind is a serious emotional problem. Much worse, it's a serious social problem, because it's become so widespread.

The primary remaining option is that he is one of the few who are rationally and coldly spreading hate and fear in the hopes of gaining power through it. Clearly those people exist since the kind of hateful screeds we hear every day could not happen without someone stoking the fire. But the odds are he is a sad victim of those people rather than a collaborator.