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SoFlaJet

(7,767 posts)
Mon Aug 2, 2021, 07:40 PM Aug 2021

I've Been Thinking... [View all]

In 2016, we were still living in Florida and I have to say it, I was SHOCKED at how many African Americans in Palm Beach County voted for Trump because they hated Hillary. I would be talking to people and assuming they were Dem-voting progressives and at the early voting site I spoke to these two elderly Black women, telling them how much I appreciate them always standing for the right side, the good guys, the Democratic side. Now our fellow black "democrats" are on TV talking about how they gave us Biden and how they are OWED and how now the Democrats are weak and letting us all down by not getting rid of the filibuster! Well I'll tell you what, those who voted a protest vote against Hillary Clinton in 2016 are partly responsible for what has happened to this country, for what is now happening to us all! They helped bring Trumpism to the world. And if this voting shit isn't straightened out, there will never be another democratically elected Democrat and the whole country will be exactly like what Florida has become, a facist state where no Democrats have any say or any power.

I'm a poor white guy and I am a Democrat NO MATTER WHAT! There is no room anymore for "protest votes" Sometimes things just have to be said. I saw with my own eyes that of which I speak and I have lived in a state that purged my name off the rolls so that they could steal an election in 2000, it changed my life and I vowed to never let it happen again.

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