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How Some Voters In The South REALLY Think (Original Post) LuckyTheDog Sep 2012 OP
That is really scary. My brain just went into freeze mode. I blame their elected leaders for monmouth Sep 2012 #1
Do you tink' greiner3 Sep 2012 #31
It's like looking in a mirror. nt onehandle Sep 2012 #2
Doesn't it immediately break? AAO Sep 2012 #7
You can't argue with stupid. That this sort of LibDemAlways Sep 2012 #3
Yahbutt..... Plucketeer Sep 2012 #20
"But it could" kenfrequed Sep 2012 #34
Such ignorance Smilo Sep 2012 #4
I feel as if I just watcher the latest Coen Brother's movie trailer! Walk away Sep 2012 #5
Morons!? Your short bus is leaving for the dump so you can stock up on groceries! (dumb mfers) n/t AAO Sep 2012 #6
In all fairness, here is New York. joeglow3 Sep 2012 #8
Thanks, you beat me to it arcane1 Sep 2012 #10
Both were Bill Maher bits M_M Sep 2012 #18
Just as ignorant as a toothless hick RedstDem Sep 2012 #21
This really hurt to watch. qwlauren35 Sep 2012 #30
Yes, they are REALLY LIKE THAT! im1013 Sep 2012 #9
It's not hard to understand these people if you open your mind more Major Nikon Sep 2012 #11
Pretty much. Shadowflash Sep 2012 #23
This is not limited to the south nichomachus Sep 2012 #12
You know what's funny? Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #13
Easy pickins' of the low-hangin' fruit..... DeSwiss Sep 2012 #14
I wonder if any of those people EC Sep 2012 #15
Whoa! These are MsPithy Sep 2012 #16
Yes MysticLynx Sep 2012 #17
And they wonder why they are the poorest state in the Union?? Hulk Sep 2012 #19
c'mon, you heard the man in the (pelosi) video (deep south) RedstDem Sep 2012 #22
truth is stranger than fiction They_Live Sep 2012 #24
The ignorance is staggering, it would be funny, if not so horrifyingly sad. OverBurn Sep 2012 #25
This is a joke...right? ewagner Sep 2012 #26
This is America!! immoderate Sep 2012 #27
It is easy to laugh at these people- digonswine Sep 2012 #28
I don't know abelenkpe Sep 2012 #29
I would like to think that I would do better in the exact same circumstances- digonswine Sep 2012 #35
Yes, but any of them might suddenly get a mansion in Beverly Hills and their own TV show. Kablooie Sep 2012 #32
Dumbfuckery on display. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #33

monmouth

(21,078 posts)
1. That is really scary. My brain just went into freeze mode. I blame their elected leaders for
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:50 PM
Sep 2012

this outrageous lack of education, and mostly for a lack of dentists....LOL..

 

greiner3

(5,214 posts)
31. Do you tink'
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 06:57 AM
Sep 2012

Their unelected 'leaders,' those of the religious persuasion, have any say in their willful ignorance?

LibDemAlways

(15,139 posts)
3. You can't argue with stupid. That this sort of
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:52 PM
Sep 2012

ignorance and stupidity exists in the US ought to be a source of national shame. Instead, it's a source of regional pride. Makes me cringe.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
20. Yahbutt.....
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 04:14 PM
Sep 2012

When you know you don't know nuthin' - ain't that ah nugget ah knowin' in itself ??? Gawd Bless!

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
34. "But it could"
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:08 PM
Sep 2012

Dear gods at least the seemingly stupidest person on this video actually had some semblence of self awareness.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
4. Such ignorance
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:52 PM
Sep 2012

not only stupid and wrong, but thinking that God is the thing that is missing and if only.............

Can we persuade them to secede?

Added - In some ways it makes me want to cry that in 2012 we have a state that is so backwards that they would be happy going back to the 1800s and thinking they would be in God's glory.

The children don't stand a chance.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
5. I feel as if I just watcher the latest Coen Brother's movie trailer!
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:52 PM
Sep 2012

When I was younger I spent some time in Kentucky and Tennessee. The folks in the rural areas were a little odd but nothing like this. Has anyone weighed their brains to see if they are a few ounces short of three pounds?

 

AAO

(3,300 posts)
6. Morons!? Your short bus is leaving for the dump so you can stock up on groceries! (dumb mfers) n/t
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:57 PM
Sep 2012
 

M_M

(163 posts)
18. Both were Bill Maher bits
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 03:43 PM
Sep 2012

Nancy Pelosi's daughter (can't recall her first name at the moment) made the film clips either late last year or early this year.

qwlauren35

(6,148 posts)
30. This really hurt to watch.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:42 AM
Sep 2012

I don't like to admit that some of my people are like this. But the truth is right there...

SOME people don't want to work. SOME people are moochers. SOME people feel entitled to handouts, and haven't done a damned thing to earn them... except maybe reproduce. Some of these people are able-bodied and quite capable of holding a job.

It makes me want to puke.

I end up having more respect for the Bible-thumping racists, as long as they're holding down a job.

im1013

(633 posts)
9. Yes, they are REALLY LIKE THAT!
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:02 PM
Sep 2012

I, unfortunately, live in this god-forsaken state.
I had no idea that people were actually like this in real life!

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
12. This is not limited to the south
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:45 PM
Sep 2012

I hear the same things from my family in Massachusetts and from some of my neighbors in California. It may be more prevalent in the south, but they don't have a lock on it.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
13. You know what's funny?
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:47 PM
Sep 2012

Watching the reaction when you tell them they are the ones who voted for Jimmy Carter.

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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
14. Easy pickins' of the low-hangin' fruit.....
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:51 PM
Sep 2012
''Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.'' ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


- I s'pose this is legitimate ignorance.....

EC

(12,287 posts)
15. I wonder if any of those people
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 03:17 PM
Sep 2012

know it's a Pelosi asking them those questions? I'd bet at least half of those she interviewed go to rallies and rant and rave about Pelosi, Reid and Soros. The names they use to show how informed they are.

MysticLynx

(51 posts)
17. Yes
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 03:40 PM
Sep 2012

Yes they are- born and lived the bulk of my life in a 'red state' - and yes as a female you are 'suspect' and if you are not a fundy x-tian you get harrassed. I have known of peoples homes, vehicles etc being vandalized, in some cases even pets have been murdered in mutliated by these upstanding 'god fearing' christain types. They do not seem to realize three things
1) the civil war is over
2) they were manipulated by wealthy plantation owners and are still being manipulated
3) the religion they cling to is a religion soley based on hatred, and is a tool for the current plantation owners to use to manipulate them.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
19. And they wonder why they are the poorest state in the Union??
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 03:59 PM
Sep 2012

...and the most illiterate, and probably the closest to the Stone Age?...well, keep thumpin' them Bibles, and hating them people with darker skin color then yours, and the South will get their ass handed to them again, if you want to believe that nonsense.

Honest to God, THIS is why we are a nation of morons. Thank God there are some decent folks in the South, because they are sadly outnumbered by half-wits like these fools.

 

RedstDem

(1,239 posts)
22. c'mon, you heard the man in the (pelosi) video (deep south)
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 04:22 PM
Sep 2012

he don't hate hate BO because he's black. its cause he's a 1/2 breed!
l.o.l.!

the stupid's just drippin off them, look, they're standing in a puddle of it!!!

ewagner

(18,964 posts)
26. This is a joke...right?
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 06:49 PM
Sep 2012

I mean...

...if I TRIED I couldn't get any more ridiculous stereotypes than I just saw in these two minutes....

This thing HAD TO BE A PUT-UP JOB...

The old man on the front porch in the rocking chair? I swear to you that was a cast character out of Hee-Haw!

digonswine

(1,485 posts)
28. It is easy to laugh at these people-
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 07:48 PM
Sep 2012

they have not had the education and proper(ish) upbringing I have had.
This just makes me sad about the human condition. They really do not know. This is what they were exposed to their whole lives. I can't say I would be different if I grew up as they did.
AS sad as they make me, I hope they stay home in November.

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
29. I don't know
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:07 PM
Sep 2012

My mother and brother live in northern VA and while their command of the english language is a bit better they would agree with these folks being tea party fundies themselves. I grew up around them yet escaped. (Always thought they were mean and not so bright)

Does make me sad though...

digonswine

(1,485 posts)
35. I would like to think that I would do better in the exact same circumstances-
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:04 PM
Sep 2012

but I am thinking of ME as I am now. My mind recoils at much of what was said. I like to find fault with the major failings of those in our history in this country and would like to think I would do better. I know me now but, in that other reality, who knows? It does not really bear thinking about, but is a thorn under my saddle.
Nice job rising above your personal history! I would bet that some in the video could do it too, with the right nudge at the right time-developmentally.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
32. Yes, but any of them might suddenly get a mansion in Beverly Hills and their own TV show.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 12:11 PM
Sep 2012

Al Capp would be proud.
(Course he was a scumbag in his own way. Ask Goldie Hawn.)

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/al-capp-came-on-to-goldie-hawn-during-a-business-meeting_1284313

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