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hollowdweller

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49. What you said makes total sense.

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 05:19 PM

Dec 2014

Really, you look at it, talk radio got started in the 80's then Fox News.

For many, even democrats "Liberal" is a perjorative thanks to years and years of propaganda.

Conservative is not.

Remember Bush VS Dukakis "not in the mainstream" meaning different from us.

Clinton? Crook, must remove by impeachment.

Obama? Somehow illegitimate.

If you look at that New York Times recent poll where a LOT of people agree with our issues, yet they still feel gov't has too much regulation.

That is what they have been programmed VS what they are seeing clashing.

So while many people might agree with many of the democratic idea if you spell them out as individual bills, in a generic race between a democrat and a republican they will vote republican because of the visceral response brought about by years of repitition without the dems fighting back.

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The Prophet Carlin said it well: PeoViejo Dec 2014 #4

Thank you! This is EXACTLY what came to my mind when I read the title snappyturtle Dec 2014 #35

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I-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-L-E Baitball Blogger Dec 2014 #13

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As long as it's out of his personal pensions, okay. sinkingfeeling Dec 2014 #17

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