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Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
15. I get the same treatment here!
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 05:27 PM
Jul 2016

Ohio has a few of those types as well.

Since I'm white and clean-cut, many of them automatically assume that I'm "one of them." Sometimes I don't reveal my liberal leanings right away, and thus I hear all kinds of racist comments that they'd normally keep to themselves.

As for my Tea Party co-workers, here's their general characteristics:
1. They don't like compromise at all. If a Republican compromises with Democrats, that person is a RINO. They despise you if you disagree with them about anything political.
2. FOX News and AM talk radio is like crack cocaine for them. They try to constantly have the break room TV on FOX. If it's not on FOX during their lunch break, and others refuse to acquiesce to their demands for once, they get antsy and spend the rest of their lunch breaks in their cars to hear AM talk radio.
3. They seem to think they're "real Americans" while others are not.
4. They are MUCH more vocal about their political beliefs compared to most people.

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