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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts) Mon Nov 30, 2020, 04:18 PM Nov 2020

I encountered a Trump voter who spoke about "communist-democrats" Saturday. [View all]

I was gathering signatures with a friend of mine for a local person who is running for office in my area. A person from one household was signing my petition as my friend was speaking with the neighbor next door.
This Trump voter came out of the house, followed my friend as she joined me, and spoke to both of us about "communist-democrats", and other Trump brand idiocy.

My friend attempted to reason with the Trump voter, but reason never works on the unreasonable.

And that is, and will remain, a huge problem for the near future as 70 million US voters believe that up is down and down is up.

What is critical, in my view, is to motivate the 33% who did not vote, or were prevented from voting.

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I encountered a Trump voter who spoke about "communist-democrats" Saturday. [View all] guillaumeb Nov 2020 OP

We Need To Begin Reffering To Them As Facsist Republicans nt sfstaxprep Nov 2020 #1

The problem is that many cannot be reached. guillaumeb Nov 2020 #2

If They're Going To Lump Us All Together As "Communist" Socialist Democrats sfstaxprep Nov 2020 #11

Fair, and in many cases, accurate. eom guillaumeb Nov 2020 #13

Wait a minute.... jmbar2 Nov 2020 #3

It is everywhere on right wing media. guillaumeb Nov 2020 #5

Yes. According to wingnuts we had a socialist economy during the Eisenhower years... JHB Nov 2020 #9

"communist-democrats"? 4Q2u2 Nov 2020 #4

People who say things like this are unreachable. guillaumeb Nov 2020 #6

It's not out of no where. BlueLucy Nov 2020 #7

I always screw with those nut jobs.. dubyadiprecession Nov 2020 #8

I had someone a few months ago use this little number: Initech Nov 2020 #12

You cannot. guillaumeb Nov 2020 #14

My response to the Nazi thing is Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2020 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Nov 2020 #10

And a large portion of them are truly unreachable. guillaumeb Dec 2020 #15

We do have some people proudly calling themselves socialist AmericanCanuck Dec 2020 #16

But the point for the tacticians who create these memes is to put people on the defensive, guillaumeb Dec 2020 #17

If we didn't have anyone in our party calling themselves socialist AmericanCanuck Dec 2020 #18

Try this: "Obama had 8 years in office, 2 with control of the House and Senate..." brooklynite Dec 2020 #20

Trump's delusional followers are immune to fact based argument. eom guillaumeb Dec 2020 #21