Posted on 10/20/2024 4:34:13 AM PDT by shoff
I live in Putnam County which is referred to as “upstate” New York. We are just a stone’s throw from Westchester County. When traveling around Putnam I see some Trump signs but very few Harris signs. Sort of makes sense since the county is home to retired cops and mostly middle class families. Now when my travels take me into Westchester which is a pretty affluent area I see many more Harris signs than Trump. Some are rabid supporters with multiple lawn signs and even Trump signs with a circle and bar across it. Why is that? How can you in theory have “made it” but be so stupid as to endorse such a looser? Are they democrat party hacks, do that many people live off government grants, or are they involved in education and have been brainwashed. Help me out here with any ideas why so many supposedly smart people can be so blind.
It is a problem of info source. The msm is full of lies.
The poor are promised stuff, the rich get tax carve-outs, and we get to pay for it all.
[should be “for the”]
The Working Class more than the middle class.
They’ve been indoctrinated by leftist schools and women. Abortion is the religion of a lot of women and they overcome any common sense of their partners.
Dems have a mental psychosis which is a dissociation with reality around them.
They are no different than big-University sports fans.
Roll tide?
Back in the day, the drinking age in NY was 18. Living in Ct, we teens would drive over the border to Brewster in Putnam County to drink. It’s amazing that we got home alive.
To answer your question, Democrats are thoroughly brainwashed that Trump is a Gollum. Musk says that they are infected with a mind virus. Greed is always the bottom line though. Democrats are loyal communists who profit when Democrats are in power.
My guess is that it’s not whether or not Harris is a genius or an idiot. These people know Harris will be a puppet just like Biden. What they are voting for is democrat policy and principles that got them rich and affluent or whatever and will keep them that way. They live in bubbles where they all think alike. Then you have the legal matters, such as enforcing laws they are likely skirting.
We aren’t just talking about the elites of NY, we are talking about the elites of the whole damn country and the western culture.
It’s very self destructive as it will lead to civil wars and WWIII. The people are waking up to all this.
It’s just how history runs in circles. Conditions of the 30’s led to WWII. Our elites are blindly pushing us to the next one.
Did a little checking in my neck of the woods...
Not much of it to be seen, but most of the Heels Up signage around here is on properties owned by public employees. Usually teachers and bureaucrats, a few local pols.
IOW: Deep State.
I was driving to Home Depot and on my right, I saw a lone Harris/Walz sign. The only sign in that neighborhood. I shook my head and drove on.
The next day, I drove the same route to the grocery store. ALL the houses on the left side of the street had newly installed Trump/Vance signs. Funny stuff.
Some awesome homemade Trump Halloween decor going up in our neck of the woods.
Halloween is MAGA this year! 🎃
I like your answer. It’s kind of my thinking, between network news and like minded friends they just don’t see the damage they are causing until it’s too late.My fear is the parallels between our current state and the Weimar republic.
It goes back to the great depression and Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chat (a chicken in every pot). The democrat government mandates to protect unions, created social security, etc.
It is a legacy, a tradition handed down from parents to children to assume that Republicans are for the rich and democrats are for the poor. This brainwashing has been going on for generations.
But since Trump, a realignment is taking place. People now see what the Rat party has become. Here is a short list:
1) The Rats have brought in tens of millions of criminal illegal aliens (many of them murderers).
2) The Rats advocate for the killing of unborn babies at 9 months.
3) The Rats are pushing homosexuality and transgender depravity in kindergarten school.
4) The Rats are the war monger party, giving Ukraine hundreds of $billions (with much of the money stolen by oligarchs) while giving nothing to American’s devastated by hurricanes.
5) The Rats push for censorship, and force most citizens to take experimental “vaccines” (while exempting illegals) and closing churches while leaving brothels and casino’s open.
It will take some time, but the democrat party will eventually face extinction (just like the communist). People want freedom.
I haven’t cross checked by me but it would not surprise me.
Mostly indoctrination. These are godless people who are willing to believe anything but the truth. They trust the authority of celebrities.
Also, when government doubled spending over the past few years and it made no improvement in the lives of you and everyone you know, many of these people were on the receiving end.
Ha Ha! Guess who’s not invited to the next block party.
“on properties owned by public employees”
I’d also bet that those Harris signs are on the lawns of folks that have been there for a while. A modern Harris supporter, that would be so moche as to put a sign on the lawn, can’t afford a $1M house.
Bought the house back in the day for $250K, and now just Karens about at every turn.
Probably has 6 different color recycle bins.
It’s funny you should say the belief that the democrats are for the little people, and the republicans are for the rich. I was talking to a liberal and they said the same thing. don’t know any policies but will vote on a misconception.
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