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Beartracks

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58. "They hate [liberals'] guts for no reason. "

Mon Dec 26, 2016, 04:40 AM

Dec 2016

Yep.

I've always maintained that for all the racism inherent in much of the Obama criticism over the last eight years, the Republicans would've been just as vile, demeaning, self-righteous, and obstructionist with ANY Democratic President regardless of race. We would've seen the race-tinged insults replaced with the usual commie-godless-milquetoast-socialist-tax-n-spend rhetoric, but that's all; the hatred would've been just as loud and obvious, but expressed with different language. They just had an excuse to fire up the base with a racist veneer on their usual anti-Democratic crap, but they would've gotten to the same place eventually anyway. Especially since there would still have been so many People Of Color to hate on during that time period -- some Americans, some foreign -- that the color of the President's skin wouldn't have changed a whole lot.

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