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There’s no writing off Donald Trump in polarised white America
The South China Morning Post ^ | August 2, 2016 | Niall Ferguson

Posted on 08/02/2016 12:38:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey

The secret Trump vote is going to shock the world


41 posted on 08/02/2016 1:19:43 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: Toliph

Yep, agree.


42 posted on 08/02/2016 1:20:04 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Leep

in their trailers that is.


43 posted on 08/02/2016 1:20:38 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The assessment is basically correct, save for according the confused products of Leftist deranged Academies, the epithet of "elite." They have been misled; they have become confused; many of them are hopelessly neurotic--or how else can one describe those who have the mental capacity to understand reality, but understand it not, because of imaginary guilt & myopic focus on only what they have been conditioned to believe is "politically correct?" What they clearly are not is an intellectual "elite."

To better understand the wealthy but intellectually inadequate poseurs, referred to:

Compulsion Or Compassion?

The reason the confused neurotics--many too disoriented to even understand that meaningful human progress is always a multi-generational adventure--continue to control much of the media & academia is the bullying of dissent, under the heading of what is "politically correct." This is why Donald Trump--who has thus far thrashed the bullies--is so important to the American future, and the restoration of a loyal and functional leadership.

44 posted on 08/02/2016 1:23:52 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
On the other side of this social chasm is a new lower class: white Americans with nothing more than a high school diploma

Lots of folks with college degrees that have been downwardly mobile over the last couple of decades.

45 posted on 08/02/2016 1:29:19 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As if a college degree in basketmaking implies a higher level of intelligence than an plumber with only a high school diploma...


46 posted on 08/02/2016 1:33:01 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa

I’ve known plenty of millionaires who never graduated from college.


47 posted on 08/02/2016 1:34:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There is undeniably an element of race in this election but I don't think it's particularly fundamental and doubt if it would be there at all were it not put there by an insanely aggressive hate campaign on the part of racial activists on the other side that is BLM. That's not the way to set a narrative but that's what they've done. This does not touch the insulated elites, but it does touch everybody else.

It was actually a pretty effective scam run over the past decade plus, this notion that the Left could capture words and make them un-sayable, capture thoughts and make them unthinkable, capture the public discourse and make it strictly one-way, condescending, hectoring, and at last alienating. The upshot is a level of pushback that is no longer susceptible to being dismissed as racism, sexism, bigotry, etc, etc. It isn't going to be dismissed at all. Activists have pushed the social envelope into a minefield and they're pretending outrage when it blows up in their faces.

Nor is this the sort of thing that is likely to be able to be turned on a dime by a cleverly crafted media campaign, although Lord knows they're trying. Half of the Left is saying we must be united and the other half is saying only if you're relegated to the back of the bus. It just isn't going to work that way.

48 posted on 08/02/2016 1:44:20 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: KnutKase

Yep... keep calling the people, who keep this country moving, names. That’ll keep from voting... /sarc


They don’t want you to vote.


49 posted on 08/02/2016 1:54:17 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: KnutKase

Yep... keep calling the people, who keep this country moving, names. That’ll keep from voting... /sarc


They don’t want you to vote.


50 posted on 08/02/2016 1:54:17 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: NEWwoman

I can attest to that. Trump won me over a year ago. And I’m a woman with a BS and MS in physics.


You dummy. : )


51 posted on 08/02/2016 1:55:41 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Ohioan; ground_fog
Have only read through the first few paragraphs so far, but will be absorbing the rest of it tonight .. many thanks for the link !

Though not much of a religious fella, I wholeheartedly and prayerfully agree with Mr.Fog's comment a few posts before yours:

The secret Trump vote is going to shock the world

52 posted on 08/02/2016 1:58:09 PM PDT by tomkat (PC > we kill it, or it kills us)
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To: SaraJohnson

You are kind, SaraJohnson

Frankly, I’ve known many “educated” who are really clueless.


53 posted on 08/02/2016 1:59:01 PM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: Billthedrill

Extremely well said, sir !


54 posted on 08/02/2016 2:00:23 PM PDT by tomkat (PC > we kill it, or it kills us)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Same here. 28 years, that’s right YEARS, of education and several degrees.


55 posted on 08/02/2016 2:09:22 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

His problem is that no one that lives in Belmont will admit to him the are not a Rat.


56 posted on 08/02/2016 2:11:34 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Billthedrill

It was one of their heroes that said, “When you make non violent change impossible you make violent change inevitable.”


57 posted on 08/02/2016 2:13:16 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: NEWwoman

Frankly, I’ve known many “educated” who are really clueless.


Me, too. Met all sorts of people who are really clueless.


58 posted on 08/02/2016 2:18:34 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: tet68

“It’s true, I’m not collegiate but I have learned
a lot in 70 years...”

I did go to college, but I’d rather spend all of my Saturdays and Sundays in Fishtown ... I’ve always had contempt for condescending people that feel they know what’s best for me :-).


59 posted on 08/02/2016 2:36:04 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: NEWwoman

Yeh I have a masters, my best friend is a lawyer and my whole family are college grads. So much for only the blue collar vote. Not that I’m knocking that at all.


60 posted on 08/02/2016 7:47:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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