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JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
9. agree ... get the votes no matter what ...
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 06:25 PM
Aug 2016

... my son has always been interested in politics, so he tries to follow it. He already knew that "everyone hates Hillary" long before the primaries. So she started behind. Bernie was unknown, sounded good, and had zero negatives from what my son knew.

But as we go forward ... he's seeing things he had not seen before. He's seeing the "new" attacks on Hillary. And he sees they are BS. Which caused him to have the "ah-ha" moment.

He'd never seen the actual attacks before ... he only knew the media's condensed bumper sticker versions of those attacks.

Now as he watches the latest nonsense attacks ... he is seeing the way those bumper stickers are "manufactured". Take a non-event, call it a "scandal" and then reduce the entire discussion such that the "BLANK scandal" becomes a totally new and separate thing from reality. A way to claim a bad thing happened without having to state what the bad thing actually was.

I also think he's pissed that he had been falling for it initially.

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