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puffy socks

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21. It's a simple one alright. I grew up with Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. We were just as screwed then
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 02:31 PM
Jun 2016

10.8% unemployment rate -the constant "you're lucky to have a job" intimidation so we'd work for pennies , etc. but I didn't go around blaming the Democrats for not getting things done when the country was lied to professionally, and at a time when we couldn't just look it up other expert opinions on the internet. That is true up until around yr 2000.

I'm so tired of these millennials who pretend previous generations haven't been fighting fro Progressive values.

Really? How did we get the civil rights act? How did women get the right to legally sign contracts?
How did women start getting jobs as executives? How did we discover that CEOs were taking so much of the wealth earned by the hands of others?
How in the world did they get all this info on the history of the GOP, the kinds of things they were up to?

From the people who fought from the previous generations, that's who.

Now they pretend they are the only ones who see what's going on and it's laughable ..we KNOW, we've known since before these people were rolling down their prospective Fallopian tubes.

They just haven't figured out you can't fight the system from outside the system unless you want violence and that doesn't jibe with wanting peace, as they claim. I was hoping the millennials would be smarter about unity, they are not.
Good people will be fighting this fight forever. It is an ongoing battle and always has been. The only way to get control without violence is to out number the fanatics from both sides in the established system.

What's really going to bake the noodles of the millennial BoBers is... after 25 years they when they still haven't managed to get past the latest tactics and lies from the right wing, and they still refuse to unify as a team and so don't have free college, universal health care, and the corporations still are still crapping on labor and making trade deals that don't favor them... their children will blame them for not fighting hard enough, for allowing things to remain "status quo" and they will be thrown to the wolves just as they are doing to older generations today.



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Just go to the EC map and look. It mirrors the wins for HRC. She wins in a landslide in November. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1
One simple one is younger people who feel betrayed by both parties. SpareribSP Jun 2016 #2
What isn't establishment about Trump? NCTraveler Jun 2016 #4
His last name isn't Bush SpareribSP Jun 2016 #7
That is my point. He is as establishment as they come, just with a different style. NCTraveler Jun 2016 #9
I think that it's more about revenge against the people SpareribSP Jun 2016 #14
+1 Agree. Thanks for the reply. nt. NCTraveler Jun 2016 #15
maybe younger white people, but younger people of color don't dig the short-fingered vulgarian nt geek tragedy Jun 2016 #12
Women also don't seem to get along well with Trump SpareribSP Jun 2016 #16
It's a simple one alright. I grew up with Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. We were just as screwed then puffy socks Jun 2016 #21
voters reddread Jun 2016 #3
People looking for an anti-establishment candidate. People against trade deals. thesquanderer Jun 2016 #5
those who want to throw a wrench in the machine because they feel poweless to do anything else corkhead Jun 2016 #6
no, we just won't vote at all. nice broad brush ya got there. Viva_La_Revolution Jun 2016 #8
If you gotta ask, then you'll never understand. hobbit709 Jun 2016 #10
What a ridiculous response. What are you doing in DU? Just here.. LAS14 Jun 2016 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author TM99 Jun 2016 #26
And have they been dissing people who ask questions... LAS14 Jun 2016 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author TM99 Jun 2016 #37
Let's see. You've been here less than 4 months. LibDemAlways Jun 2016 #28
12 years does nothing to make his/her response less ridiculous. LAS14 Jun 2016 #32
I don't believe Sanders supporters would vote to lower taxes on the rich, deport Muslims, deport Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #11
low information voters who are responding to the negative press geek tragedy Jun 2016 #13
Sanders has Democratic, lefties, and some libertarians behind him karynnj Jun 2016 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author TM99 Jun 2016 #29
no, you are right, my few libertarian friends love Bernie, but if it is Hill, they will go Trump larkrake Jun 2016 #30
It doesn't make sense on a policy scale, but there are a lot of people that vote on feelings cemaphonic Jun 2016 #19
Independents. nt bunnies Jun 2016 #20
"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are the people most certain of them." BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #22
I know several such people democrattotheend Jun 2016 #23
Millennials, in particular white millennials. MillennialDem Jun 2016 #24
To be objective TheFarseer Jun 2016 #25
no, you are not thinking straight. Bernie folk will not vote for trump larkrake Jun 2016 #27
False and tiresome meme. Bernie supporters are the opposite of Trump supporters. lagomorph777 Jun 2016 #33
It's a real question based on the fact that Bernie... LAS14 Jun 2016 #35
I N D E P E N D E N T S lumberjack_jeff Jun 2016 #34
White people who are sick of getting beat up by "free trade" deals, for example. Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #36
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