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The real reason Donald Trump appeals to working-class whites
Salon ^
| 11/10/2015
| Robert Reich
Posted on 11/10/2015 8:14:15 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: Farmer Dean
If the next election doesnât start to fix the problem,folks may seek other remedies.I don't believe that. If we haven't sought out 'other remedies' by now we never will. The American people are too comfortable to rock the boat. Even those who are unemployed...they're getting checks and foodstamps from the government they may not like but they won't do anything to risk those benefits.
We've been sold down the river.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:31:35 AM PST
by
pgkdan
(But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Isn’t the author by his own admission Robert Reichshhhhhhhh?
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Most of the people I met in America's heartland want big money out of politics, and think the Supreme Court's "Citizens United"Â decision was shameful. Clearly, the man is an idiot who doesn't know any live-brained people.
Citizens United puts corporations (collections of people banded together for a common goal) on the exact same footing as labor unions (collections of people banded together for a common goal).
"Shameful" is what one calls a government which claims first rights on one's property, including money, without offering representation at all. Hmmm... Wasn't that a major basis for the little 18th century disagreement we had with the British?
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:31:52 AM PST
by
MortMan
(The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Because like Putin, he’s not ashamed of being white.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:32:17 AM PST
by
DungeonMaster
(Democrats have covens, not conventions.)
To: basil
Better get used to him as he is all but certain to win the nomination and probably the White House. Cruz may be able to give him a fight if enough others are forced out.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:35:37 AM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: MNnice
He didn’t even get the name right. It is William Jennings Bryan, IIRC.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:35:38 AM PST
by
NEMDF
To: basil
You would prefer Jeb Bush, maybe?
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:36:48 AM PST
by
NEMDF
To: NEMDF
Actually, I’m for Hillary/sarc
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:39:43 AM PST
by
basil
( God bless the USA!)
To: MNnice
I made it through the excerpt but I can’t handle anymore. I’m on my way to the bathroom to wash my brain off. Liberals have no concept of reality whatsoever.
To: basil
I canât remember when a presidential candidate has left me so cold as the thrice married Trump. I can, McLame, McRomney and Sharpton. But none of them ever stood a chance. Trump on the other hand could win. Cruz maybe, but the rest don't stand a snowballs chance.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:49:04 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:51:05 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: oh8eleven
He can’t help the fact that he’s small, but he can help the fact that he’s small-minded.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:52:06 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
” A surprising number think the economic system is biased in favor of the rich “
It is not the rich that are the problem, the problem are the ones in power who write laws that favor the rich but on the outside make the laws look like they favor the poor.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:52:52 AM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: pgkdan
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:56:06 AM PST
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Jim from C-Town
I second it. Looks more and more likely.
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posted on
11/10/2015 8:57:42 AM PST
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Oh, please. Robert B. Reiiiiiich and his commie cronies always assume “populism” because they themselves have no values, and assume everyone else doesn’t, either. The head-shrinkers call that “projection.”
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:00:08 AM PST
by
backwoods-engineer
(AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
To: showme_the_Glory
I could vote for Senator Cruz with a big smile on my face.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:01:03 AM PST
by
basil
( God bless the USA!)
To: Biggirl
Thanks for the well reasoned substantive reply.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:02:33 AM PST
by
pgkdan
(But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
I don’t need little Bobby Reich to tell me that a lot of Trump supporters hate the rich just as much as the “Occupiers” do. See it here every day.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:02:44 AM PST
by
Eric Pode of Croydon
(I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means....)
To: basil
Well, I haven’t been this enthused about a candidate, since the twice married Reagan ;)
(There’s that marriage thingy, again :)
My trust in BOTH Reagan and Trump was NOT in how many times they’d been married, but how well they managed people, programs and processes that they were/are responsible for.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:03:47 AM PST
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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