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Care enough to suss out what I said?
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My visible version of your post says "I for one will not blame any specific demographic,"
Those words must mean something different in US English compared to the King's English.
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Ingratitude is shocking. Still no reason to try to stop being better. If you descend to their level they will beat you with experience.
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Okay, the white evangelicals in this country have been demonizing liberals for decades (arguably over a century). They had their Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells, fat cat wealthy 'men of god' blaming 9/11, natural disasters, HIV, etc... on homosexuals (people remember "the gay agenda"), liberals. During the Clinton Administration there was no end in sight of the aghast evangelicals and the moral-less President Clinton. So much so, they put their faith in a reborn George W Bush who'd restore morality into the White House. Well, that was after the push poll in South Carolina that helped push white evangelicals away from McCain (before the pod people got him) because he had a black kid, signs of things to come.
All those fuckers voted for Trump.
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And then I said "actually" which is a normal English word you apparently can't comprehend.
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...and when he gave a blowjob to a microphone when there was a child in the background audience, they cheered him on....
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Why do you believe that Trump's view is representative of all conservatives?
What leads you to feel that the ads for a single specific candidate represent the views of all conservatives?
What mockery did Fox push that specified college educations? Why do you assume that infotainment has the beliefs of all conservatives nailed?
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What things to conservatives say? Are they said by all conservatives, a majority of conservatives, or just a few?
What policies do conservatives support? Are those policies supported by all conservatives, most conservatives, or just a few?
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It was mostly a joke.
I don’t want to end up in a rhetorical trap of “no true conservative” form or deciding what the threshold percentage of people thinking similarly on a given subject is required to consider them a group.
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The POWER of the left. If anyone could be pushed into voting for Trump by a group with no real power, over some extremely minor issue, then that person is very easily manipulable, and is more likely to become a Trump voter due to the unrelenting pro-Trump slant of US media.
It was a winning strategy for Trump - lies and insults. Maybe the Dems need to get real hardcore and lie about everything and insult everyone. Of course, this will destroy America, but who cares, eh? The Dems already are better, and that didn't work, and of course they won't lower themselves like the Republicans did, who submitted to Trump and Putin.
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Or it could have been that every ad against Harris was that she supported trans womens rights to be in women's spaces. If that is truly her platform I disagree with it. It must affect tens of people throughout the country.
Frankly very much of the rest of her platform I was in favor of.
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I find it really hard to see any male more toxic than Trump. If that's who they want to emulate, it's very hard not to consider them toxic too.
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I notice you didn't respond to this part.
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indeed! Trump got votes by pushing the rock down the hill while Harris had to push the rock up the hill.
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Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on this. Like it or not, the vast majority of Americans don't give a damn about any trans issues, and it's especially off putting for Latinos, who have a serious conservative streak. It's a losing cause in terms of getting and then maintaining a voter base.
The group is super vocal and sucks up a lot of air on the internet, which gives them an outsized voice. You wanna see attempted cancellation, see their psychotic and unrelenting attacks on JK Rowling. That's the epitome of the movement.
The Dems need to moderate their position on this issue e.g. we believe in equal rights for everyone, but not special rights. No more extra accommodations, no more taxpayer funded surgeries, and no more of this "There's no such thing as a man or a woman" bullshit.
If you wanna alter what you're born with, that's up to you, but not until you've reached the age of consent, and insurance companies should never be required to pay for that. It's a voluntary surgery.
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I know you're being sarcastic, but gee, I hope not.
This whole "When they go low, we go high" notion died in 2016. IMO, the Trump party has gotten into the mud and is eating all the food from the trough. While dirty politics has always existed, discourse from conservatives is a scary but very real threat.
Being above it all is indeed being better than them, and ideal, but the bully needs to get punched in the mouth. IF we fail to do so, we're going to continually get our heads dunked in the toilet in the boys bathroom at the local high school.
Of course, this is all based on the idea that we'll continue to have free and fair elections. If we don't, which I believe is an all too real possibility, then none of this matters.
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Can any of you imagine if ANY OTHER Presidential candidate in the history of Presidential candidates running for office did this, what the backlash would be? Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Obama, Kerry, Bush 1, Bush 2, Gore, Bernie Sanders, even Ronald Reagan ... The Moral Outrage Brigade, the Party of Family Values, the Old-White-Men-Have-Dementia Crowd were all completely silent and worse, cheering...
The election result was not about VALUES or IDEOLOGY. It was about CHANGE and the ECONOMY. There was a perception that the economy was not recovering fast enough and people wanted swifter changes to get us there. Kamala Harris was seen as the status quo and just as much at fault for not improving things swiftly as Biden even though VP's have little power.
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I don’t think anyone is saying “there is no such thing as a man or a woman.” They are saying something perhaps subtly but crucially different, as can be seen from P.Z Myers’ rebuttal to Jerry Coyne.
If people want to get worked up and lathered up about trans’ rights, that’s their problem.