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In reply to the discussion: Have You Ever Tried to Think Like a Deplorable? [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)41. Me either. My instinct is to avoid touching it like hot coals.
Repugnant. I run, just like I would from a schizophrenic whose hearing voices with a gun. I think there is something to be said for knowing how they think, as we need to get a few of their votes.
It is pretty simple, and it's been well outlined here. Don't talk to them about what's right or humane. They either don't care or they like that they are hurting people. You have to talk bottom line, taxes, money. For example, if you don't educate people, they are more likely to be in jail. Instead of paying their fair share of taxes, so you won't have to pay as much, you will have to pay a LOT to support them in jail.
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I actually tried to suppress my own thoughts while working for an Evangelical church...
manicraven
Mar 2017
#6
I could fake it for a short span of time, which I did, but I couldn't stand it.
manicraven
Mar 2017
#11
Oh, and the Evangelical church members were big Obama haters and were sending me
manicraven
Mar 2017
#9
I've watched the transition, and I've made some extrapolations, looking at the demographics.
politicat
Mar 2017
#19
No. Because they don't think. Or can't think. It's the same thing. No higher brain function.
Aristus
Mar 2017
#34
They're ok with whites getting super rich off them. They're not ok with nonwhites getting
dalton99a
Mar 2017
#42