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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum... we may have taken this "Anyone can grow up to be President" thing a bit too far.
From Facebook just now.
Credit: https://instagram.com/p/BK6tCIuh1V-/

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... we may have taken this "Anyone can grow up to be President" thing a bit too far. (Original Post)
Coyotl
Sep 2016
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Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)2. kick
ecstatic
(35,032 posts)3. I hope that sign is referring to Trump,
But "rich white man" has always been the default stereotype of who could be president. Women, minorities, and people who are not from wealthy families are the ones who have (in recent decades) heard the mantra that anyone can grow up to be president.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)5. Never occured to me to think otherwise.
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