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Smug progressive transplants help to explain Trump’s victory in rural Wisconsin
Hot Air ^ | January 22, 2017 | John Sexton

Posted on 01/22/2017 2:25:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is a microcosm of the entire "progressive" mentality. The extremist, twisted, perverted agenda they define as "moderate" is, in fact, so far out of the norm that regular people simply can't identify with it anymore. It appeals only to a lunatic fringe of gripe-holders, posers, pseudo-sophisticates, and elitists who would feel comfortable in Louis XVI's court.

They look in a mirror and think it's a window.

21 posted on 01/22/2017 3:18:05 PM PST by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“New York City! Get a rope” It’s the reason Pace’s commercial hit the spot.

In our sparsely populated county the Easterners have long tried to change our culture.


22 posted on 01/22/2017 3:32:55 PM PST by tiki
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To: bigbob

They all think they are so intelligent and everyone else is an idiot lost in ignorance until they appeared to enlighten the unwashed masses.


23 posted on 01/22/2017 3:34:23 PM PST by tiki
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I grew up in that area, graduated from Durand High School and then joined the Air Force. In the article was a statement that I've found true throughout the rural America that I've visited during my enlistment;

"But the only thing that surprised John Andrews, the disgusted Democrat-turned-Republican, was that other people were surprised.

“It’s so simple,” he told me. “The people here are good, honest, down-to-earth people, good citizens. The elitists, they don’t understand. … If they would get out and talk to the working class, they would understand.”

These people don't vote 'D' or 'R' because of genetics, they vote their conscience and they didn't like what the Democrats have done.

24 posted on 01/22/2017 4:01:46 PM PST by Traveler59 ( Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I worked in Pepin County over the last 30 years and can vouch for some of the stories of the “smug and superior progressives” that moved in from the Minneapolis area. The Sheriff is a good man and has them pegged accurately.

My best gotcha on one of them happened when he wondered how his personal data had been hacked. He almost cried when I asked him if he had signed up for obamacare because all that personal data was mishandled. Maybe hillary was using the same server.


25 posted on 01/22/2017 4:02:58 PM PST by fishnuts2 (Not rich enough to be a democrat)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
She makes a good point for conservatives. Many conservatives look at how liberals are, protesters, etc. and we wonder, do you really have hate in your heart this way? Do you really hate anyone who isn’t on board with global warming, homosexuality, transsexual bathroom access, Obamacare, and all the rest???

As someone who lives in a rural area that is slowly being infiltrated by Liberals ("Can't you keep the cows quiet in the morning?") you summed it up perfectly.

26 posted on 01/22/2017 4:09:38 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: tiki
For the good of the team I listened to KPFK in L.A this morning and they had on what seemed like the main grass roots organizers for Bernie and they've written a book on their experience and what they learned in creating their movement.

The book is called Rules for Revolutionaries or some such nonsense- I'm sure you'll all be rushing out to get a copy; however, they were very excited about how close a self-proclaimed socialist came to getting the nomination and that at the rally's and demonstrations since occupy L.A there are more young people than gray haired old lefties. I think that roughly corresponds to when Soros started expanding his operation.

These folks were fairly honest about what a crappy candidate HRC was I don't know if they discussed the whole primary being fixed.

The "normal" democratic lefties are still in denial and are despondent truly not understanding any of the many reasons Trump won.

The radical lefties are excited and seem to think they are poised to take over - its simply a demographic matter of time. The apparatus they created, they were promoting as effective - who knows they might just be looking for work.

I think on Saturday the womens march, those men and women who marched, are Hillary voters and I think they are so clueless we can just enjoy messing with them.

The radicals seem jazzed and very focused on targeting the young and consolidating some power based on the enroads they believe they have made due to the strong performance of Bernie.

I'm hearing some common verbage assisting the narrative that young people are almost categorically rejecting capitalism and free enterprise. What they have to say is really quite insightful, I wasn't that wise at their age or some such garbage one uses when flattering.

I bet we start seeing some young hip celebrities writing some very elegant adult socialist claptrap the pipeline is about to start providing them.

The radicals seem to under estimate President Trump and view him as a potential vehicle to advance the struggle of socialism. It is self evident to them that President Trump will be a disaster and their radical alliance of BS marxist groups will be there to pick up the pieces and implement radical change - this seems to imply a new constitution and an acknowledgement that the American experiment was inherently evil.

I don't think the Democrats get center left focused I think they go further to the left.

If we stay focused and organized ourselves Trump runs the plan what we see today is nothing compared to the meltdowns if they have further losses in 2 years and in if President Trump runs and wins again it could really destroy all the demographic infrastructure the progressive left has been breeding since the early 1900s.

27 posted on 01/22/2017 4:26:33 PM PST by datricker (Its America in America Again)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Pigs? You’re a total jackass and a pig yourself.


28 posted on 01/22/2017 4:56:37 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

I didn’t call anybody a pig, I used an analogy. I’ve been to plenty of cities myself, you couldn’t pay me a million dollars to live there. Maybe “living like prisoners” would’ve been a better way to put it. Just one schmoe’s opinion, people who live in 600 square feet and pay $3000/month for the privilege make no sense to me.


29 posted on 01/22/2017 5:01:21 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: datricker

Scary, I have 2 very solid conservative grandchildren and 2 who are more impressionable.


30 posted on 01/22/2017 5:02:14 PM PST by tiki
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Ok, poor analogy. You’re not a pig. Just a jackass.


31 posted on 01/22/2017 5:10:33 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

That’s fine. If I lived like you I’d be screeching at people, too.


32 posted on 01/22/2017 5:25:51 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: miss marmelstein

That’s Mr. Ass to you.


33 posted on 01/22/2017 6:15:09 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals leaving the Liberal Cities and States are like Cancer Cells breaking off from the main Tumor.

They infect the rest of the Body and form more Tumors.

As an example, look at the Californacation of once sane Colorado.

It’s just like the Muslims in Europe, but they don’t just move to those Countries, they simply out breed the locals and the idiotic Governments pay them to do so. Suicide.


34 posted on 01/22/2017 6:21:51 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

That’s Mr. Ass to you.

LOL, I love it! If you’re gonna criticize me.....do it properly!


35 posted on 01/22/2017 6:34:19 PM PST by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: Snickering Hound

Chris Plante is right - he does look like a gibbon.


36 posted on 01/22/2017 6:48:59 PM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...author Michael Kruse makes a convincing case that the smug cultural superiority of progressives has a lot to do with Trump’s unexpected win in rural Wisconsin.

I think it's why President Trump won anywhere! We're ALL sick and tired of the liberals looking down on 'Jesus people', and anyone who didn't attend an Ivy League school.

37 posted on 01/23/2017 4:33:09 PM PST by SuziQ
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