Nnanji -> RE: Thoughts about backwoods Mississippi? (4/12/2016 4:24:26 PM)
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If the rethugs had a chance in the election they wouldnt be clouding the waters with all these other disgusting bills That reminds me: I'm baffled by the sense of timing about all these bills. The presidential election is looming. I don't get it. A small percentage on the extreme right will be happy with these anti LGBT bills - but these would always be voting Republican anyway. Meanwhile, much larger numbers of waverers in the centre will be turned off. This seems like really pisspoor political strategy, to me. God, American politics has become so polarised. It's so strange to watch, here on the outside of it all. I've never seen it look so tribal - and so damned *angry*. In sum, the white lower and middle classes are angry, and they are tired of being blamed for the unhappiness of other tribes. In our world, in which uncouth tribal leaders can say almost anything, these whites wanted their own Sharpton or Ramos, and finally got him with Donald J. Trump. As is true of most revolutionary movements, the aggrieved are not as angry at their perceived opponents as they are contemptuous at the enablers of them. Given his cruelty, obnoxiousness, and buffoonery, Trump should have been a three-month flash in the pan, exactly as most of his critics had prophesied and dreamed. I hope he will still fade, as he should. But the fact that he has persisted this long may be because the hatred our elites so passionately claimed was aimed at the Other was actually directed at themselves. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433921/white-elites-versus-white-working-class
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