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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums28% of Americans...why are we always talking about THE BASE?
they are piffle compared to our numbers, and idiots on top of that...THE BASE, THE BASE... madenning..
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28% of Americans...why are we always talking about THE BASE? (Original Post)
jodymarie aimee
Dec 2018
OP
''Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency''
Donkees
Dec 2018
#2
Not "the" base. They are base. It works! see, I am getting this new way of speaking!
NRaleighLiberal
Dec 2018
#6
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)1. Maybe since they are the ones he aims to please.
We can forecast how he will act if we think that pleasing them is his goal.
Donkees
(31,074 posts)2. ''Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency''
Base suggests a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency: "that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble" (Edmund Burke). Something low violates standards of morality, ethics, or propriety: low cunning; a low trick.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/base
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/base
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Thanks for the honest number.
Try to read the Polling methodology used when polls hit. The base points are so friggin bogus. And that is why Nate Silver dismisses most polls.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)4. They give him what he craves..adoration. so he gives them
What they want..racially charged rhetoric and action
Cirque du So-What
(25,808 posts)5. We could refer to them with my preferred term
Scum of the earth.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)6. Not "the" base. They are base. It works! see, I am getting this new way of speaking!
Must now go and let dog in.
Someone is calling me on telephone.
Things just get more loony every day!
Most now go and consult moose and squirrel!
Azathoth
(4,603 posts)7. The tyranny of a two-party primary system n/t