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The Genealogist

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9. They're all so brainwashed there is no getting through to them

Reply to OliverQ (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2018, 02:53 PM

Jul 2018

All they know is the radio and the teevee tells them how to think act speak and vote. Most of the ones in my family have been listening to Rush since he came on the radio. They think Trump will give them their dream world where there isn't anyone to challenge their beliefs or otherwise upset them. That's what they really want, a nation full of people exactly like them, where any challenge to conformity and homogeneity is met with swift reprisal.

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For those with Trump supporting/Republican family/friends [View all] OliverQ Jul 2018 OP

I have written them off as having died and never been recovered. Moostache Jul 2018 #1

They already are living in a country with massive poverty vlyons Jul 2018 #2

They tell me God led Trump to be president. Mad-in-Mo Jul 2018 #3

So by that logic, God also led Obama to be president. OliverQ Jul 2018 #4

Then I get, the line, Mad-in-Mo Jul 2018 #10

These are the same people who feared Russia and referred to Putin as KGB Freethinker65 Jul 2018 #5

Hell they have eyes and ears like i do BUT bluestarone Jul 2018 #6

I wonder how many of them know about the... 3catwoman3 Jul 2018 #7

We will ALWAYS have guns. Dave Starsky Jul 2018 #8

They're all so brainwashed there is no getting through to them The Genealogist Jul 2018 #9

They all think it won't happen in the U.S. blueinredohio Jul 2018 #11

You don't understand. If Trump tells them that would be wonderful, procon Jul 2018 #12