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In reply to the discussion: You Can't Get Conservative White Women To Change Their Minds [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)14. Wouldn't put it that way, but personality rules, and
personality is both genetically wired and environmentally developed.
This article reflects the "white man's burden" mentality of a certain type of leftists who assume that a natural superiority of liberals means we're responsible for the wellbeing, including the voting behavior, of lesser peoples.
Don't accuse those of profound bigotry against conservatives and vast contempt for not just them but also the Democratic Party for always failing in its duty, though. They won't believe it. They know they're right in their determinedly clueless foolishness as surely as recalcitrant trumpsters do.
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i don't expect them to convert them but i do think they should stop making excuses for them
JI7
Nov 2018
#1
I'll don't think the women who support trumpty will change, just like the men won't. They
iluvtennis
Nov 2018
#4
I believe these people are following the direction of their ministers. nt
No Vested Interest
Nov 2018
#5
Please, I have no pity for conservatives/racists. They've done too much damage...
brush
Nov 2018
#45
it is more like the 30% Party when you count in all eligible voters (including non voters)
Celerity
Nov 2018
#8
Interesting choice of terms. A 27-year-old grown man is not generally supposed to be a "kid."
Glorfindel
Nov 2018
#55
Agreed. Evangelicals will die rather than wake up to reality. The anti-medicine cults, the anti-educ
lindysalsagal
Nov 2018
#15
The thing of it is, it doesn't make sense for people who value care and fairness, like us
ProfessorPlum
Nov 2018
#24
I still maintain...OK,. hope...and they FEAR...that the White Patriarchy is
libdem4life
Nov 2018
#57
Yes. The emphasis needs to be on getting those who don't participate to vote.
58Sunliner
Nov 2018
#61