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(110,159 posts)paid the bills too and kept business running.
too much an all or nothing.
though really, i love my denim
JJChambers
(1,115 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)of the saying.
and called bullshit. it is not more important to call one extreme as another.
JJChambers
(1,115 posts)The point of the sign isn't that people who wear denim built America and people who wear suits destroyed America. The point of the sign is that the 99% built America and the 1% raped America. The Woooosh is the sound of the point sailing right over your head.
Obviously people are more than their clothes.
HTH
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)This guy wore a suit and changed America:
These guys wore a lotta denim (they were vigorous vacationers) and fucked it up:
JJChambers
(1,115 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)and visualized bush and reagan and the oil dudes....
the visual fails
JJChambers
(1,115 posts)You're already liberal and progressive. The message needs to resonate with the folks in red states; why do you think Reagan and Bush wore so much denim?
MADem
(135,425 posts)I provided an illustration that proved my point.
I didn't even go into the "working MAN" pantload; which is rather (cough) rich when one looks at the composition of the American work force and looks at the wage distribution by gender...!
Frankly, when I think of denim, I think of expensive designer jeans that are outside of my price range, I don't think of "the working man." Hell, "the working man" -- or woman -- is more likely to wear a boiler suit (archaic term showing my age--what I mean to say is COVERALLS) than "denim" on the job. "Denim" --at least US manufactured denim--hasn't been an affordable option for "the working man" (or woman) for nearly a half century now.
I have no objection to good analogies. That wasn't one of them.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)destroyed America."
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