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get the red out

(13,461 posts)
6. I am a hillbilly
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:17 AM
Mar 2017

And in the years prior to this election, I've experienced other liberals getting mad at me for not seeing how they are just poor, misunderstood, hardworking people. They knew more than me because I was JUST A STUPID KENTUCKY HILLBILLY, LOL! Seriously, you can't fight brainwashing overnight, and you really can't easily fight people's religion (which has been hijacked by Rs the way Islam is hijacked by extremists like ISIS). They are being used because they have abandoned their critical thinking ability to Politicized Churches and RW media, but I won't let them off the hook for that group-think. Recall how President Obama was slammed for telling the absolute truth regarding "Gays, Guns, and God"?

But here's a big caveat, sometimes some liberals come off as more than a little "Ivory Tower" to even me. We do need to use plain speak, because there are people who are not as far gone as others. Hillbillys might be overwhelmingly R, but a lot of working class midwesterners are still capable of voting for democrats.

Sorry for rambling.

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