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watoos

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1. I have been thinking about Trump voters,
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 07:38 AM
Oct 2018

actually, Republican voters. They don't understand that they are voting against their own best interests. They think they are voting for a type of South African apartheid where because they are white they will be valued over minorities. Actually, what will happen will be more like what happened in Chile with the Pinocet coup. Sure he killed or imprisoned everyone who was on the left, but those people on the left were fighting for the common man and woman. Chile ended up abolishing unions and pensions, taking over education so that only the rich became educated, basically privatizing everything under government control. It was all poor people who ended up suffering in Chile, of course those on the left suffered more because they were killed or imprisoned, their voices were silenced. I saw what Pinocet did to Chile, I worked there in 2002 and 2003.

Trump voters are being fooled into thinking that Trump is going to make life better for them when in fact they will find themselves in the same boat with the minorities they are hating on and voting against. We can see what has happened to the tax code. New revelations show that Jared Kushner hasn't paid taxes for 7 years. Our tax code makes it legal for rich people to avoid paying taxes, as Leona Helmsley said, taxes are for poor people. We will never stop spending money on the military so when our revenue dries up it will be poor working class people who are going to suffer. I saw it first hand in Chile, I watched entire families eating outside my restaurant, eating out of a dumpster. Honestly, their food may have been healthier than what we will be forced to eat.

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