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In reply to the discussion: I spend a lot of time in the company of Trumpers. I've learned something important. [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)96. Yes, indeed.
I'm glad I retired before Trump was elected.
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I spend a lot of time in the company of Trumpers. I've learned something important. [View all]
mn9driver
May 2019
OP
+1000 To reverse this trend we MUST improve our schools & teach critical thinking.
CaptainTruth
May 2019
#44
I maintain the best intervention includes passage of a rewritten Fairness Doctrine
lambchopp59
May 2019
#152
I alway have believed that it began with the Powell Manifesto to the US chamber in
PatrickforO
May 2019
#51
I maintain the best intervention includes passage of a rewritten Fairness Doctrine
lambchopp59
May 2019
#154
because he killed the fairness doctrine. the 20-1 talk radio monopoly of 1500 radio stations are
certainot
May 2019
#104
that only applies to little stations. and iheart is $20BIL in debt. it's irrelevant and doesn't
certainot
May 2019
#120
all self criticism of dems and the left is bullshit until they recognize talk radio's part, which is
certainot
May 2019
#140
It also very difficult to counter under the existing situation. Repub control the broadcasts.
olegramps
May 2019
#144
I agree. And fear mongering. I think there should be a concerted effort to label them as gullible.
TryLogic
May 2019
#108
I asked the wife of a retired union member who complained about all the dues he'd paid
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
May 2019
#138
I know people drawing city government pensions, rabid Republicans, Trump fans all.
Demit
May 2019
#13
I actually know a former Union Local President that has always been a Republican. Of course this
walkingman
May 2019
#131
Both my parents fed at the government "trough" their WHOLE working lives, yet would say the same
deurbano
May 2019
#50
it's brainwashing, classic symptom. Like suddenly singing a jingle for Oscar Meyer hotdogs
CharleyDog
May 2019
#84
Same thing people do to radicalized ISIS fighters; devalue thier stupidity with reality
uponit7771
May 2019
#132
Another one that really frosts my ass is the old "They're all the same." bs. You point out the
retread
May 2019
#12
Trey Gowdy said on Fox that they knew she could not have stopped the attacks. But they
Maraya1969
May 2019
#127
I have nothing to do with tRumpsters & luckily I don't have to work around them. nt
yaesu
May 2019
#46
It wouldn't even change if YOU were frogmarched to prision for your political
Ferrets are Cool
May 2019
#57
These Republicans are the same kind of people who would have followed Jim Jones
patphil
May 2019
#59
I'd be curious to know whether they're fundamentalists Xians, Opus Dei-type Catholics & their ages.
Texin
May 2019
#64
You are correct. They are completely brainwashed. Then I ask myself, am I the brainwashed
Pepsidog
May 2019
#72
if foxnews went off the air for just one week, what a difference it would make.
unblock
May 2019
#74
They're all brainwashed. "Without the 'Fox effect' neither Bush nor Trump could have won."
deurbano
May 2019
#80
I didn't see race or hate mentioned here. They are not talked about in mixed company.
empedocles
May 2019
#85
Sorry, you are quite wrong! No matter how many screenings, when they believe in obvious....
machoneman
May 2019
#97
I was thinking it was brainwashing but also had an in-law who was in a union and hated
demigoddess
May 2019
#101
I can outdo that. this guy disliked being 'held back' by medicare. Searched for a doc he
demigoddess
May 2019
#166
The ACA gave lots of new people insurance, but it indeed made many politicians filthy rich.
MadDAsHell
May 2019
#106
Why are we coddling misguided people? If they want to live in an illusion...Go Ahead
Chin music
May 2019
#134
I maintain the best intervention includes passage of a rewritten Fairness Doctrine
lambchopp59
May 2019
#153