I have to agree with Starving Artist. A big reason why the Democrats lost not only the presidency but also numerous Senate elections is because they don’t identify or resonate with the “common man” any more. Joe Six-pack is tired of being called the enemy in his own country, and voted for Trump out of retaliation.
Soooo… no wall?
Have you ever considered writing an autobiography? I’m sure many of us would love to learn what caused you to turn out like this.
Except the Democratic party candidates have never (or certainly very rarely) called Joe Six Pack an enemy in his own country. Clinton’s policies were certainly designed to improve the lives of the common man and were most certainly going to be more effective than vague promises to make America Great Again. Voters retaliated against an offense that never occurred with a vote for someone worse on everything they say they care about. Hence the impulse to call them stupid.
Pretty sure I saw posters held high at the Democratic convention that said, “Kill Whitey!”.
I think that was Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford.
Not only that, but falsely accused of being the enemy.
By far most accusations of racism, sexism, misogyny, whatever, are nothing of the sort. Liberals have stretched the meaning of such words so as to apply to virtually anything they don’t like the sound of in an attempt to create a society in which anyone who disagrees with them is a reprehensible person and therefore not worthy of a voice in the national dialog. It’s not just a ‘my way or the highway’ approach but a ‘my way or you are some form of asshole’ approach.
And people have gotten fed up with it to the point that they’ll vote for pretty much anyone who’ll stand up to it, call it what it is, and tell it to go pound sand.
What is most interesting is how they throw the word “Bigot” around
Now, you can get really confused on who is the bigot when you consider, at least in the minds of many, those who voted for Trump are all from a particular racial and/or ethnic group.
Orwell was right.
My ex was a pathological liar. It started small but the lies grew larger and more frequent and ridiculous over time. Eventually I started calling her out on the more blatant ones and she became more and more defensive, never admitting to having lied while becoming quite good at turning things around on me and playing the victim card. Got so bad that eventually the relationship ended and she finally got her way. But that didn’t make her right, or very happy with the result, as it turned out.
No, the stupid thing is thinking that the problem exists only with Democrat politicians. Virtually the entire national dialog as presented by liberals of all stripes in the news and entertainment media, Hollywood, politics, and private citizens, is that anyone who doesn’t conform to liberal-think is by definition some form of bad person, whether that be racist, sexist, misogynist and so on. It’s a drumbeat that’s gone on for fifty years now and has reached fever pitch the in the last ten years or so with the advent of social media and the proliferation of an apparently infinite amount of SJWism, which has become so prevalent and wide-reaching that it even has liberals turning on each other and calling themselves names.
It’s ridiculous, and the common-sense folks of the country are well and truly fed up with it. So along comes a candidate like Donald Trump, who says in effect, “You know what happens when people get offended? Nothing! That’s what happens” and doesn’t care whether people call him a racist because he very logically wants to stem illegal immigration or prevent terrorists who’ve already proclaimed their aims to attack us from entering the country. He’s stated he’s gonna do what’s right and if people want to call him names, he couldn’t care less (apart from the occasional Twitter rebuttal, that is).
This is terrifying to the left, because without the ability to intimidate people through accusatory words and political correctness, they have no real power. And so we see the frenzy going on today, where accusations of racism and facism and misogyny and stupidity are flying like confetti on New Year’s Eve. Which of course is only going to exaggerate the problem, but, birds gotta fly, huh.
Every time I think there’s no way for to become more of an anachronistic idiot than you already are, you manage to find another rock layer, and dig a little deeper.
You just know that the Dem convention in 2020 will be an endless parade of white plumbers, construction workers, factory workers, bubbas and Billy Bobs.
If they’d done that in 2016, do you think they would’ve won?
Uh huh. They tend to forget, that the guys at the gun stores don’t check party affiliation or voting records when they make a sale…
Just sayin’
No, they’d have lost by an even wider margin, because Bubba and Billy Bob might not be as dumb as they look.
If they voted for Trump thinking that he gives an actual shit about them, then they are even dumber than they look.
That’s become easier than ever – just grab them by the pussy.
The irony of decrying the very thing you do in your post. Funny how it’s okay to stretch the definition if you do it.
The Webster definition is the definition liberals use. How the fuck do you think the definition got in there? Dictionaries discover the definition by looking at how words are actually used.
As someone who lived as a conservative for well over 2/3 of his life, I still find it hard to believe that any conservative is called racist just because. I’ve watched for it online, and I very, very rarely see it happen today, either. And, when I do, it’s nearly always obvious trolling.
So it’s really hard for me to buy into this narrative that conservatives are constantly being called “racist.” It seems to me that it only happens when they actually say racist things. And then, usually, someone is nice to them at first, trying to explain it. But “racist” or "racism’ is a trigger word for them, and they get angry. That is when people start calling them racist.
It reads too much like the narrative where Christians say they are oppressed for their faith, which I also reject (in the U.S, anyways).
Liberals call conservatives racist for all sorts of things that aren’t racist in any true sense of the word. They get called racist if they’re law and order types, because the war on drugs and the legal system is allegedly designed to target and punish black people. They get called racist if they advise blacks to cooperate when stopped by the cops, because blacks shouldn’t have to ‘bow and scrape’ to ‘the man’ for having committed the offense of ‘driving while black’. They get called racist if they object to welfare programs because instead of looking at the philosophies behind conservative objections to welfare programs, liberals simply take the position that because so many black people are on welfare, conservative opposition to it has to be racist in nature. Conservatives get called racist if they don’t like rap music or airwaves filled with filthy and misogynistic lyrics. Conservatives get called racist should they object to anything Obama, despite the fact that he’s a Democrat and they’re…you know…Republicans!..so of course they’re going to object to his goals and policies! That’s what they do with every Democrat president! But noooo, the only reason according to liberals anyone would object to anything having to do with Obama is racism!
And that’s just where it concerns black people. Conservatives also get called racist for objecting to illegal immigration. Despite the fact that almost every other country on earth has recognized the necessity of regulating immigration, when it comes to the U.S. the only reason in liberal eyes to limit immigration is racism. And then of course we get accusations of racism against Muslims, because we object to the notion of throwing our borders open willy-nilly to a large group of people that we already know contains would-be terrorists who are planning to attack us. But nooooo, we only object to Muslim immigration because we’re racists who hate ‘brown people’…you know…the same reason we supposedly hate Hispanics.
The list goes on and on. Basically, if you’re white and not liberal in your politics, it’s pretty much incontrovertible in the eyes of liberals that have to be racist, because not being liberals, how could you not be?