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In reply to the discussion: Are Deplorables traitors too? [View all]nini
(16,700 posts)40. They're in denial if they think the worst can't happen here
We're ripe for a major mess and those voters were talking about allowed themselves to be duped by a party that has never done a damn thing for them.
Those voters simply do not pay attention and now they've put people in place who threaten the very foundation of everything that made this country great.
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They've heard from the get-go tRump's ties to Putin and his soft words for the dictator.
BlueCaliDem
Dec 2016
#2
Do the voters who gave Hitler pluralities in the 1932 and 1933 German federal elections get a pass?
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#5
Lots of illiberal people will vote for liberal politicians if there is something in it for them.
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#14
If they aren't convinced by what is about to happen, I don't think anything can convince them
world wide wally
Dec 2016
#17
I don't want them to suffer. To be candid I don't know what I want to happen to them.
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#8
"Do you have loved ones who voted for Trump who you KNOW are NOT racists/sexists/bigots? "
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#10
I have friends and loved ones who voted for HRC and would qualify as deplorble
loyalsister
Dec 2016
#46
Same here.. I didn't think they would do anything that would take 2 generations to undo
nini
Dec 2016
#37
I was sorely disappointed but I never felt our experiment in self governance, however flawed...
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#38
America is so large and diverse that any attempt to forcefully pacify it would end in its ruin.
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#42
The problem with the nose holding is the republicans were too and they will .....
Jim Beard
Dec 2016
#43
Some of them are.....no poll option for that. Of course it's the usual suspects.
TrekLuver
Dec 2016
#7
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
#31