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ck4829

(38,093 posts)
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 01:10 PM Nov 2018

1 group of people with real problems being led by another group of people with fake problems

This is the core issue I think...

We've got one group of Americans who can't pay their bills, have to decide between medical care or groceries, are worried about what will happen in their future, etc.

And then we've got another group of people who think their problems are having to press 1 for English, that their neighbor is a Muslim, that there supposedly exists a sinister cabal of transgender people want to use the restroom to pee, that black people think their lives matter, or that someone had the nerve, THE NERVE, to say "happy holidays" to them.

Now these two groups have some slight overlap but they are not the same circle... We can appeal to that first group and oppose the second group. I think that is what we did in 2018 and we can, we must do it again. And we must call it out even more I think.

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1 group of people with real problems being led by another group of people with fake problems (Original Post) ck4829 Nov 2018 OP
This is the 'American' way...and you said it pretty good... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #1
Yup. qwlauren35 Nov 2018 #2

SWBTATTReg

(26,401 posts)
1. This is the 'American' way...and you said it pretty good...
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 01:53 PM
Nov 2018

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Now these two groups have some slight overlap but they are not the same circle... We can appeal to that first group and oppose the second group. I think that is what we did in 2018 and we can, we must do it again. And we must call it out even more I think.
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qwlauren35

(6,309 posts)
2. Yup.
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 09:03 PM
Nov 2018

I think you spelled it out clearly.

However, there is also the abortion issue that sometimes defines how women vote, above all else.

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