Posted on 05/11/2016 11:38:47 AM PDT by Innovative
Americans, collectively, are not as angry as watching cable TV would lead you to believe. But many poorer, less-educated folks who have been left behind in the 21st century—the ones who have seen their wages stagnate, their opportunities for upward mobility disappear and their life expectancies shorten—are looking to disrupt a status quo that has not worked for them.
That’s what Sanders and Trump are both promising to do.
And that’s the main reason why Bernie beat Hillary Clinton in yesterday’s West Virginia Democratic primary by 15.4 points. He carried every single county in the Mountaineer State, which by every metric has been left behind. (Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, won 77 percent of the vote in the uncontested GOP primary.)
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James Hohmann: THE PEOPLE are also fed up with lying elites in DC who feather their own nests AND the sycophants in the press who cover for them...
As it was said before: “Bring It On”
I have a Bachelors and a Masters in Chemical Engineering and an MBA in Finance. I’m voting for Trump.
I guess I’m stupid too.
So did McNasty in 2012...and in the 2012 RAT primary, Keith Judd, a convicted, and at the time imprisoned, felon got more than 42% of the vote against Zer0
S/B So did Romney against Zero in 2012
Actually way beyond merely "Progressive."
They are what I call Mipips.
Read the Mipips essay. Very good.
It could not be done without the media.
I agree. The dumbing down of American Journalism—both print & broadcast—has enabled the cultural & intellectual assault on our heritage to proceed with remarkably little formal opposition—that is outside of venues like Free Republic.
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