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ck4829

(34,971 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 04:25 PM Nov 2018

The Republican Senate majority was saved by white people with no college education...

Quite literally the bloc Republicans have done nothing for.

When conservatives pass around memes comparing people on food stamps to animals at the park you shouldn’t feed - They’re talking about them.

When Republicans were crowing about our transition from a manufacturing economy to a service economy and how it meant more profits and some job loss - It was their jobs being lost.

But hey, they get to say “Merry Christmas”, that has got to be a win, right?

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The Republican Senate majority was saved by white people with no college education... (Original Post) ck4829 Nov 2018 OP
The magabomber hated "happy holidays". dubyadiprecession Nov 2018 #1
A lot if them barely made it through high school. leftyladyfrommo Nov 2018 #2
I met dozens of them in Las Vegas in 1984 and was stunned Awsi Dooger Nov 2018 #3

dubyadiprecession

(5,615 posts)
1. The magabomber hated "happy holidays".
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 04:36 PM
Nov 2018

Say “Merry Christmas” or I will blow you up!
Ya know compassionate conservative Christian stuff!

leftyladyfrommo

(18,815 posts)
2. A lot if them barely made it through high school.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 04:51 PM
Nov 2018

I know a lot of tbose people. They have very little education.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
3. I met dozens of them in Las Vegas in 1984 and was stunned
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 05:21 PM
Nov 2018

I had no idea that type of person existed, in such numbers. They were young white uneducated males, mostly from the south, who had relocated to Las Vegas when they sensed no opportunity in their rural areas back home.

I'll never forget when I would make offhand political remarks and they would bark at me. They hated Democrats. The only one they liked was JFK, apparently from what their parents had said. Of course, JFK had been dead for two decades.

I still know some of those guys, the ones who were skilled at sports betting and we shared notes. Their politics have not changed other than I came to realize they despise Democratic women even more than Democrats in general. No mention of Hillary lacked dozens of curse words.

At least it was a lesson to me toward what America really was. Between meeting those guys in Las Vegas and frequently attending PGA golf tournaments with that white crowd I don't kid myself toward the political slant of white America. If you watch MSNBC all the time that reality is blurred or denied.

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