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In reply to the discussion: My husband is a registered Republican [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,213 posts)of how wrong he was. I think he has shown that he realizes his errors and is unlikely to repeat them. Warren, too, shows all evidence of realizing that reaganomics was a joke and a scam.
Please stop misreading things. This was not about demonizing anyone. It is about actually changing instead of going with the cool trend or bending only to the most obvious offenses of the republicans. I'm an old guy. I watched "hippies" from the sixties who graduated and then became corporate stooges. They were only hippies because it was cool and got girls. We have all the questions about why did those white voters vote for Obama and then trump. They were just following the hot new thing. My question about these turnaround spouses is whether they truly realize the damage they have done and see that they were either being duped or hypocritical when they voted for republicans.
When John Stewart voted for bush, he helped prove that negative, racist advertising works. If someone voted for reagan, they helped destroy whole parts of the ecosystem as watts sold off our national heritage to the mine owners and foresters. If someone voted for bush2, they helped cheney kill hundreds of thousands and create a terrorist threat that will be with us for generations.
If you don't recognize that you've been duped, you can be easily duped again.