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shockey80

(4,379 posts)
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 12:31 PM Sep 2016

Republican voters are 35 years too late.

I am a democrat and a union member. For the past 35 years the democrats and unions warned everyone about our factories moving overseas. They had a name for it. The rush to the bottom.

Republican voters did not listen. For the past 35 years they have voted for trickle down economics which supported our factories and jobs moving overseas. They turned their backs on labor and unions.

Donald Trump comes along and tells them all of your jobs have moved to china and mexico and it has been a disaster. Now they are upset!! The ship has sailed. It's too late. Republican voters have issues and we need to call them out. Whenever i run into a trump voter i will call him out on this strange behavior. They have become fools.

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Republican voters are 35 years too late. (Original Post) shockey80 Sep 2016 OP
Right To Work modrepub Sep 2016 #1
Nostalgia never wins cleveramerican Sep 2016 #2
does anybody actually believe he can bring steel back to Pittsburg,like he promised? Hayduke Bomgarte Sep 2016 #3
taking the country back AlbertCat Sep 2016 #5
Don't insult them (tho they deserve it). Instead ask them Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2016 #4
Ask all those Peabody Coal Retirees,,,,,, Cryptoad Sep 2016 #6
reaganism was all a bait & switch to destroy the bottom's power. pansypoo53219 Sep 2016 #7

modrepub

(3,495 posts)
1. Right To Work
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 12:46 PM
Sep 2016

Forgetting the Repub push to get these laws passed. Lower wages suppress tax revenue. Funny how states that have culled their workforce and cut wages are constantly coming up with lower than projected tax revenues.

cleveramerican

(2,895 posts)
2. Nostalgia never wins
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 01:09 PM
Sep 2016

everytime i hear them blather on about taking the country back, I think
I WANT TO CONTINUE GOING FORWARD


does anybody actually believe he can bring steel back to Pittsburg,like he promised?

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
3. does anybody actually believe he can bring steel back to Pittsburg,like he promised?
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 01:26 PM
Sep 2016

I don't. Further I don't believe he would IF he could. And if drumpf is so damn concerned with bringing jobs back to Uhmerka, why doesn't he start with his own manufacturing companies which are scattered over 14 other countries?

As my dearly departed Dad used to say, "he's fulla shit."

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
5. taking the country back
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 02:32 PM
Sep 2016

Whether they mean taking it "back in time" or "back from someone who's stolen it" (what I think they usually mean) I want to know WHO has taken the country away from you.... and when exactly did YOU have it? Of course that all implies going "back to the way it used to be"....which usually never was.

I like the "I want the government out of my life" whine.

Exactly what is the government preventing you from doing? What do you want to do that the government has stopped you from doing? Not paying taxes? That illegal! Not paying your employees enough money to live off of? Not being able to shoot whomever you want? What is it you want to do? Smoke pot?

It seems to me you can do all these illegal and unethical things with little interference these days anyway. It it only a problem with these "get the government off me" people when someone gets caught? The Bundy Syndrome?

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
4. Don't insult them (tho they deserve it). Instead ask them
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 01:43 PM
Sep 2016

Ask them if they will be the last to leave Trump? Then if they say they won't vote for Trump, ask them if they will be the last to leave the Republican party.

Bandwagon effects are big, especially with wavering voters. Nobody likes to be left behind.

Leave the insults alone if you want to sway people, even when they deserve it. If they are definitely not swayable, feel free to insult those and laugh at them.

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)
6. Ask all those Peabody Coal Retirees,,,,,,
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 02:56 PM
Sep 2016

whose pension will stop being paid the first of year, if maybe the should have keep voting for the Democratic Party whose had always stood with them.

pansypoo53219

(20,974 posts)
7. reaganism was all a bait & switch to destroy the bottom's power.
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 05:00 PM
Sep 2016

and the racist reagan democrats bout it. attack the welfare QUEENS & IGNORE the welfare KINGS. the 2% welfare KINGS are demeaning their tax cuts + more wealth & squeezing the bottom to pay for THEIR cuts.

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