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Le Gaucher

(1,547 posts) Mon Jul 2, 2018, 10:18 AM Jul 2018

The only issue Republicans REALLY care about is

WHITE CHRISTIAN HEGEMONY

Every other stance , policy position,SCOTUS appointment, issue etc is either in service of the above or just lip service.

They are in a almighty struggle for restoring a Jim Crow era social order over and above anything else. The deplorables clearly understand this and hence every sin Trump has committed is forgiven. He can rape a woman on live television but they will still support him.

Assuming that 45% of this country is composed of RACIST garbage ... What should we be doing?

And what do we do if they are over 50% of LIKELY (after accounting for suppression) VOTERS?? I seriously think we are undercounting the racists in America. People assume that Democrats are going to win the house. But given computer optimized gerrymandering and latent racism - I think it's harder to get there than we think it to be.

A domesticated pig let loose in the wild returns to it's feral state in a just a few generations... I think the same could apply to us. Hard won fights on social and civil can be undermined very quickly.

Its time for Obama to step back in the political realm and become our voice. These are extraordinary times and need extraordinary measures.

Because If you think Trump is going to shut up and go away quietly after being voted out/term limited - Think again.

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The only issue Republicans REALLY care about is (Original Post) Le Gaucher Jul 2018 OP

Certainly worth thinking about as more and more BBQ Beckys... brush Jul 2018 #1

Nationalism, with and without Christianity, is big too. Hortensis Jul 2018 #2

brush

(54,076 posts)

1. Certainly worth thinking about as more and more BBQ Beckys...

Reply to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 10:28 AM

Jul 2018

shed their sheets for all the world to see who they are.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

2. Nationalism, with and without Christianity, is big too.

Reply to Le Gaucher (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 10:34 AM

Jul 2018

Most of them also care a great deal about their social programs. Really.

(They just don't want 9 out of 10 of all the people on them to be the kind of lazy bums who refuse to work, the way they are now because we Democrats love our shiftless no-goods as much as we do our Mexican rapists.)

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