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In reply to the discussion: This is a really, deeply ugly ticket [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)and experience from the small southern town i grew up in I can tell you this.
They are not stupid. They are well educated. They aren't wealthy for the most part though some have a lot of land. Plain and simple, they hate that a black man is President. They would have disliked any Democrat, sure. But they hate this black man with spittle flying out of their mouths when they speak of him. They are willing to be deliberately ignorant of any truth about him in order to believe every falsehood ever told about him.
They are willing to be deliberately ignorant about any deficits in any republican plan on any issue, as long as that plan is opposed to anything Obama is for. They are willing to close their eyes and ears to everything harmful that the GOP has proposed in order to oust Obama, including to American workers, their own parents and children.
That is the reality we are in. They are not stupid by a long shot. They are simply so filled with hate that nothing else matters anymore. I'm speaking of my own sisters and my oldest friends. I see them for what they are.