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Atheist 2020

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True, I was born in 1966. Even that I was born in the 1960's, I studied the values of America from the start of World War II to the present day. With studying the values of the Republican party from the 1950's and into the 1970's -- the Republican party modeled themselves as the college educated -- having a respected job and family. They came from the New England states, New York, the Mid-West states, and California. They were in the political center of there era, and the center left. Some were conservative, but they always stayed the same year after year without bending to the wants and needs of any president.

Under Trump, Republicans are not in the center left, or in the middle of political thought. They have lost the New England values, the New York values, and lost any hope of picking off California. They have moved to the values of Texas, the bible belt of the deep south, and the Rocky Mountain states. They have divorced themselves from a foreign policy because of the failure of the Republican ideas of war as a source to governing. After thee terms of two Bush administration -- they have divorced themselves of the Bush era from 1980 to 2016.

With both political parties, they have gotten smaller with each election era. With the Republicans, they are older, they are less educated, they now renounced any design to have anyone supporting a foreign policy. They are tied to the religious right, but only have a unified policy against abortion. Republicans have the educated religious right, but needs to get the uneducated religious right to win a election.

Under the Trump era, they pick up the low information voters. The model Republican of the 2010's is a white male, has a $50,000 pick-up truck, have over $5000 in firer arms, lives in a model home with a value of less then $10,000. Has religious tattoos on his body, and has missing teeth. Lives in a county with less than 30,000 people, and when they drive into a city -- they have a 3x5 flag of the United States flying from the bed of their truck. That is the icon of the Republican party of the Trump era.

This is the Trump era, and I do not see how it can become more worse after Trump leaves office.
 
Atheist 2020 said:
True, I was born in 1966. Even that I was born in the 1960's, I studied the values of America from the start of World War II to the present day. With studying the values of the Republican party from the 1950's and into the 1970's -- the Republican party modeled themselves as the college educated -- having a respected job and family. They came from the New England states, New York, the Mid-West states, and California. They were in the political center of there era, and the center left. Some were conservative, but they always stayed the same year after year without bending to the wants and needs of any president.

Under Trump, Republicans are not in the center left, or in the middle of political thought. They have lost the New England values, the New York values, and lost any hope of picking off California. They have moved to the values of Texas, the bible belt of the deep south, and the Rocky Mountain states. They have divorced themselves from a foreign policy because of the failure of the Republican ideas of war as a source to governing. After thee terms of two Bush administration -- they have divorced themselves of the Bush era from 1980 to 2016.

With both political parties, they have gotten smaller with each election era. With the Republicans, they are older, they are less educated, they now renounced any design to have anyone supporting a foreign policy. They are tied to the religious right, but only have a unified policy against abortion. Republicans have the educated religious right, but needs to get the uneducated religious right to win a election.

Under the Trump era, they pick up the low information voters. The model Republican of the 2010's is a white male, has a $50,000 pick-up truck, have over $5000 in firer arms, lives in a model home with a value of less then $10,000. Has religious tattoos on his body, and has missing teeth. Lives in a county with less than 30,000 people, and when they drive into a city -- they have a 3x5 flag of the United States flying from the bed of their truck. That is the icon of the Republican party of the Trump era.

This is the Trump era, and I do not see how it can become more worse after Trump leaves office.
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First of all, your characterization of the "model Republican" is utter, insulting nonsense.

Second, the "people"...Rep or Dem...are not the politicians in either Party.

Third, the people of either party who actually matter...the Elites...have changed since the 50's - 70's. This is who they are nowadays.

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These are the people who oppose Trump. These people...and their donors...are the ones threatened by Trump. These are the people who Trump supporters oppose.

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Atheist 2020 said:
True, I was born in 1966. Even that I was born in the 1960's, I studied the values of America from the start of World War II to the present day. With studying the values of the Republican party from the 1950's and into the 1970's -- the Republican party modeled themselves as the college educated -- having a respected job and family. They came from the New England states, New York, the Mid-West states, and California. They were in the political center of there era, and the center left. Some were conservative, but they always stayed the same year after year without bending to the wants and needs of any president.

Under Trump, Republicans are not in the center left, or in the middle of political thought. They have lost the New England values, the New York values, and lost any hope of picking off California. They have moved to the values of Texas, the bible belt of the deep south, and the Rocky Mountain states. They have divorced themselves from a foreign policy because of the failure of the Republican ideas of war as a source to governing. After thee terms of two Bush administration -- they have divorced themselves of the Bush era from 1980 to 2016.

With both political parties, they have gotten smaller with each election era. With the Republicans, they are older, they are less educated, they now renounced any design to have anyone supporting a foreign policy. They are tied to the religious right, but only have a unified policy against abortion. Republicans have the educated religious right, but needs to get the uneducated religious right to win a election.

Under the Trump era, they pick up the low information voters. The model Republican of the 2010's is a white male, has a $50,000 pick-up truck, have over $5000 in firer arms, lives in a model home with a value of less then $10,000. Has religious tattoos on his body, and has missing teeth. Lives in a county with less than 30,000 people, and when they drive into a city -- they have a 3x5 flag of the United States flying from the bed of their truck. That is the icon of the Republican party of the Trump era.

This is the Trump era, and I do not see how it can become more worse after Trump leaves office.
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I hope you are not calling yourself educated, as you have demonstrated for the world the exact opposite. You have made obvious you have no idea who the Republicans are, or why they voted for Trump. This despite our telling you why. Too many assumptions not enough facts.
 
Atheist 2020 said:
True, I was born in 1966. Even that I was born in the 1960's, I studied the values of America from the start of World War II to the present day. With studying the values of the Republican party from the 1950's and into the 1970's -- the Republican party modeled themselves as the college educated -- having a respected job and family. They came from the New England states, New York, the Mid-West states, and California. They were in the political center of there era, and the center left. Some were conservative, but they always stayed the same year after year without bending to the wants and needs of any president.

Under Trump, Republicans are not in the center left, or in the middle of political thought. They have lost the New England values, the New York values, and lost any hope of picking off California. They have moved to the values of Texas, the bible belt of the deep south, and the Rocky Mountain states. They have divorced themselves from a foreign policy because of the failure of the Republican ideas of war as a source to governing. After thee terms of two Bush administration -- they have divorced themselves of the Bush era from 1980 to 2016.

With both political parties, they have gotten smaller with each election era. With the Republicans, they are older, they are less educated, they now renounced any design to have anyone supporting a foreign policy. They are tied to the religious right, but only have a unified policy against abortion. Republicans have the educated religious right, but needs to get the uneducated religious right to win a election.

Under the Trump era, they pick up the low information voters. The model Republican of the 2010's is a white male, has a $50,000 pick-up truck, have over $5000 in firer arms, lives in a model home with a value of less then $10,000. Has religious tattoos on his body, and has missing teeth. Lives in a county with less than 30,000 people, and when they drive into a city -- they have a 3x5 flag of the United States flying from the bed of their truck. That is the icon of the Republican party of the Trump era.

This is the Trump era, and I do not see how it can become more worse after Trump leaves office.
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60,000,000 adult Americans live in $10,000 houses, have religious tattoos, $5000 in firearms and have an American flag flying off the back of their pickup trucks? The OP is another message of a level of TDS that is off the charts. How far over the cliff can the Democratic Party take their groupies?
 
Atheist 2020 said:
True, I was born in 1966. Even that I was born in the 1960's, I studied the values of America from the start of World War II to the present day. With studying the values of the Republican party from the 1950's and into the 1970's -- the Republican party modeled themselves as the college educated -- having a respected job and family. They came from the New England states, New York, the Mid-West states, and California. They were in the political center of there era, and the center left. Some were conservative, but they always stayed the same year after year without bending to the wants and needs of any president.

Under Trump, Republicans are not in the center left, or in the middle of political thought. They have lost the New England values, the New York values, and lost any hope of picking off California. They have moved to the values of Texas, the bible belt of the deep south, and the Rocky Mountain states. They have divorced themselves from a foreign policy because of the failure of the Republican ideas of war as a source to governing. After thee terms of two Bush administration -- they have divorced themselves of the Bush era from 1980 to 2016.

With both political parties, they have gotten smaller with each election era. With the Republicans, they are older, they are less educated, they now renounced any design to have anyone supporting a foreign policy. They are tied to the religious right, but only have a unified policy against abortion. Republicans have the educated religious right, but needs to get the uneducated religious right to win a election.

Under the Trump era, they pick up the low information voters. The model Republican of the 2010's is a white male, has a $50,000 pick-up truck, have over $5000 in firer arms, lives in a model home with a value of less then $10,000. Has religious tattoos on his body, and has missing teeth. Lives in a county with less than 30,000 people, and when they drive into a city -- they have a 3x5 flag of the United States flying from the bed of their truck. That is the icon of the Republican party of the Trump era.

This is the Trump era, and I do not see how it can become more worse after Trump leaves office.
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It'll be worse if ANY Democrats succeeds him.


PS: your "model Republican of the 2010's" is a mindless stream of idiocy, rarely matched here on DP.


Your problem, and that of your ilk, is that you've forsaken rational thought and the idea that someone can disagree with you and still be just as intelligent and dedicated as you. You've been force fed the far left looniness since your first days in school and received ribbons and trophies for skillfully regurgitating all the mantras and slogan the fed you in place of knowledge.
 
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Mycroft said:
First of all, your characterization of the "model Republican" is utter, insulting nonsense.

Second, the "people"...Rep or Dem...are not the politicians in either Party.

Third, the people of either party who actually matter...the Elites...have changed since the 50's - 70's. This is who they are nowadays.
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I live in Knoxville Tennessee, and the reason I live in a southern city is because the educated community is forced to live in the cities. During the Great Recession, unemployment never got above 3%. Number of my friends work in Oak Ridge, dealing with the Department of Energy, and its dealings with nuclear weapons. People outside of Oak Ridge, Faragut, Knoxville -- are pushing out native Tennessee people. Oak Ridge, is paying three times higher in property taxes to keep the poor out.

People that comes to my city from the poorer centers of the state, is how I see them. They are big on guns, they want big trucks, they fly the American Flag from the bed of their truck. They have bad teeth, and some of there teeth are black. They live in a trailer, and they are proud of that. They live in a trailer, so their property tax is lower. They go to church on Sunday, and they vote Republican. We call them Red Necks. If you think that is bad, let me talk to you about Alabama and Mississippi.
 
Bullseye said:
It'll be worse if ANY Democrats succeeds him.


PS: your "model Republican of the 2010's" is a mindless stream of idiocy, rarely matched here on DP.
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I suggest you take a good look at your signature because you have a typo. You want to say "Emulate" not "Emulation". As for your statement about democracy, it seems as if by your definition democracy is a failure by definition since the idea of a representative democracy or even a republic is to have the people control their own governments. If the people control their own governments then of course they will want benefits from it. The flip side of your statement is totalitarianism or a dictatorship where the people have no say at all.
 
Atheist 2020 said:
I live in Knoxville Tennessee, and the reason I live in a southern city is because the educated community is forced to live in the cities. During the Great Recession, unemployment never got above 3%. Number of my friends work in Oak Ridge, dealing with the Department of Energy, and its dealings with nuclear weapons. People outside of Oak Ridge, Faragut, Knoxville -- are pushing out native Tennessee people. Oak Ridge, is paying three times higher in property taxes to keep the poor out.

People that comes to my city from the poorer centers of the state, is how I see them. They are big on guns, they want big trucks, they fly the American Flag from the bed of their truck. They have bad teeth, and some of there teeth are black. They live in a trailer, and they are proud of that. They live in a trailer, so their property tax is lower. They go to church on Sunday, and they vote Republican. We call them Red Necks. If you think that is bad, let me talk to you about Alabama and Mississippi.
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So, you are painting ALL Republicans with a big brush based on your own little corner of the country. Thanks for clearing that up.

My brother is a Republican. He lives in Montana, at least until April when he closes on his house and drives off in his $150,000 RV, towing his Prius and talking to the rest of us on his brand new iPhone.

(Of course, unlike you I won't say that every Republican is like him.)
 
Vadinho said:
I suggest you take a good look at your signature because you have a typo. You want to say "Emulate" not "Emulation".
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Thanks, I'll fix it.


Vadinho said:
As for your statement about democracy, it seems as if by your definition democracy is a failure by definition since the idea of a representative democracy or even a republic is to have the people control their own governments. If the people control their own governments then of course they will want benefits from it. The flip side of your statement is totalitarianism or a dictatorship where the people have no say at all.
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There's a difference between "controlling their environment" and "writing themselves checks" Look no further than the array of Dem presidential candidates climbing over each other to promise more free stuff if the get the votes.
 
Bullseye said:
It'll be worse if ANY Democrats succeeds him.


PS: your "model Republican of the 2010's" is a mindless stream of idiocy, rarely matched here on DP.


Your problem, and that of your ilk, is that you've forsaken rational thought and the idea that someone can disagree with you and still be just as intelligent and dedicated as you. You've been force fed the far left looniness since your first days in school and received ribbons and trophies for skillfully regurgitating all the mantras and slogan the fed you in place of knowledge.
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With myself, I am very well educated. And I do very well being a military contractor.
 
Mycroft said:
So, you are painting ALL Republicans with a big brush based on your own little corner of the country. Thanks for clearing that up.

My brother is a Republican. He lives in Montana, at least until April when he closes on his house and drives off in his $150,000 RV, towing his Prius and talking to the rest of us on his brand new iPhone.

(Of course, unlike you I won't say that every Republican is like him.)
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How many teeth do you and your brother have left?
 
Atheist 2020 said:
With myself, I am very well educated. And I do very well being a military contractor.
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Which describes many conservatives I know. Myself included. In fact I can't think of a single conservative I know that has a tattoo, or a pickup.
 
Bullseye said:
Thanks, I'll fix it.


There's a difference between "controlling their environment" and "writing themselves checks" Look no further than the array of Dem presidential candidates climbing over each other to promise more free stuff if the get the votes.
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But your point seems to suggest that any form of democracy will fail because the people will always vote in their own interests. I find this to be a strange argument to make because if you rule out democracy, what is left as a form of governance? Its a silly thing to say, try to find a better quote to use or expect everyone to wonder if you are actually advocating for a dictatorship.
 
Atheist 2020 said:
How many teeth do you and your brother have left?
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How many do YOU have? After all, you live in Tennessee. I don't live in that State and I'm not a Republican.
 
Bullseye said:
Which describes many conservatives I know. Myself included. In fact I can't think of a single conservative I know that has a tattoo, or a pickup.
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You should go to Union county Tennessee. You see trucks jacked up, flying flags from their trucks, and making moonshine on the side.
 
Mycroft said:
How many do YOU have? After all, you live in Tennessee. I don't live in that State and I'm not a Republican.
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I am a Tennessee transplant. Been living in Tennessee since 2008. I have all my teeth and my wisdom teeth as well.
 
Bullseye said:
Which describes many conservatives I know. Myself included. In fact I can't think of a single conservative I know that has a tattoo, or a pickup.
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:lol: I can't think of a single one that doesn't. And I live in the deep south, home of mostly conservatives.
 
Let me pose a question: First in order to vote a person has to register which usually includes declaring a party (or "decline to state" or "independent"). For a long time I chose "independent" but here in California the parties started playing games about independents being able to vote in primaries. So, I changed to Republican because, basically, with the hard left turn the Dems seem to be taking the probability I find any Dem whose positions on any issue of importance to were negligible. So, does that make me a member of the Republican Party? I don't consider myself a member: I don't contribute to Republicans, attend meetings or assist campaigning in anyway.
 
Superfly said:
:lol: I can't think of a single one that doesn't. And I live in the deep south, home of mostly conservatives.
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Is it true you can't take your baby home until he/she has a tramp stamp on his/her cute little tushy? And, optionally, a "MOM" heart tat on a bicep?
 
PirateMk1 said:
I hope you are not calling yourself educated, as you have demonstrated for the world the exact opposite. You have made obvious you have no idea who the Republicans are, or why they voted for Trump. This despite our telling you why. Too many assumptions not enough facts.
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It is a fact that the GOP platform has enshrined homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny and a distrust of the findings of established science. If you guys don't like the stereotype, quit embodying it.
 
Vadinho said:
But your point seems to suggest that any form of democracy will fail because the people will always vote in their own interests. I find this to be a strange argument to make because if you rule out democracy, what is left as a form of governance? Its a silly thing to say, try to find a better quote to use or expect everyone to wonder if you are actually advocating for a dictatorship.
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LOL, fine. Given your lean I'm not surprised by your comments.

Truth be told it's not my original idea, it's a paraphrase of several quotes attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler
 
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Atheist 2020 said:
I live in Knoxville Tennessee, and the reason I live in a southern city is because the educated community is forced to live in the cities. During the Great Recession, unemployment never got above 3%. Number of my friends work in Oak Ridge, dealing with the Department of Energy, and its dealings with nuclear weapons. People outside of Oak Ridge, Faragut, Knoxville -- are pushing out native Tennessee people. Oak Ridge, is paying three times higher in property taxes to keep the poor out.

People that comes to my city from the poorer centers of the state, is how I see them. They are big on guns, they want big trucks, they fly the American Flag from the bed of their truck. They have bad teeth, and some of there teeth are black. They live in a trailer, and they are proud of that. They live in a trailer, so their property tax is lower. They go to church on Sunday, and they vote Republican. We call them Red Necks. If you think that is bad, let me talk to you about Alabama and Mississippi.
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I agree with you that everyone who lives in a trailer (1 out of 8 Americans), everyone who has bad teeth and everyone who flies an American flag are not welcome in the Democratic Party because being too inferior and therefore should vote straight Republican for every office in every election. Everyone who flies the flag of other countries and not the American flag should vote Democratic as that is who the Democratic Party represents.

And you probably thought we couldn't agree on anything, when we are in complete agreement.
 
Mycroft said:
First of all, your characterization of the "model Republican" is utter, insulting nonsense.
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How so?

Under the Trump era, they pick up the low information voters. The model Republican of the 2010's is a white male, has a $50,000 pick-up truck, have over $5000 in firer arms, lives in a model home with a value of less then $10,000. Has religious tattoos on his body, and has missing teeth. Lives in a county with less than 30,000 people, and when they drive into a city -- they have a 3x5 flag of the United States flying from the bed of their truck. That is the icon of the Republican party of the Trump era.
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Do you mean they have a rebel flag not American flag?
 
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