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In reply to the discussion: We should dispel one big myth about Trump's base. [View all]Dulcinea
(6,661 posts)39. That's part of it.
So many of them have tiny, depressing lives. They smoke, drink, & work their dead-end jobs. When there's no job, heroin & opiates enter the picture. They don't read, travel, or even go to the movies. They go grocery shopping, to Walmart, & to church.They're content not to know anything about the big, scary world.
I know this to be true; my father's family was full of people like this. He got an education & a profession & got away from all that. We saw them on holidays until my grandmother died, as did a lot of those relatives.
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Yep, he could shoot someone in Times Square and grab their sisters/daughters/moms by the whatever
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#1
How do the same women feel about their daughters being grabbed like that. Hope not the same.
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#13
Northam actually did as bad in rural VA as Clinton, Obama, and Kerry.
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2017
#5
The percentage of Americans living in rural areas has decreased since our founding.
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2017
#62
SHitler's Base just want him to hate & hurt the same people THEY hate & want to hurt
CousinIT
Nov 2017
#6
and despite the real knowledge that the election was dirty and Russia installed Trump ...
Botany
Nov 2017
#15