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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,716 posts)
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 08:47 PM Dec 2016

... And they are traitors too

They are nativists, racists, hompohobes, bigots, sexists, misogynists, anti-semities... and the Deplorables are traitors too...


They would make Vladimir Putin the president of the United States in a New York minute.

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... And they are traitors too (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 OP
It started the day the president became black. It is almost entirely about nothing else. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #1
I had hoped we were past all this madokie Dec 2016 #2
i agree. nt DesertFlower Dec 2016 #3
My deepest hope was that we were far beyond the worst of the past. kentuck Dec 2016 #5
When you say "United States", haven't they made that a thing of the past? world wide wally Dec 2016 #4

madokie

(51,076 posts)
2. I had hoped we were past all this
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 08:57 PM
Dec 2016

but when it became clear that our next President was going to be a black man the long knives started coming out.
Some of the people who I thought weren't racist showed their asses right off

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
5. My deepest hope was that we were far beyond the worst of the past.
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 12:17 AM
Dec 2016

But that may be a difference in political Parties? I don't know?

And all the other negative attributes that were mentioned elsewhere.

Who are we to judge?

Although none of them actually came forward and admitted their true feelings about race and xenophobia, it seems to be one of the guiding principles of their value system?

I still take solace in the fact that a large majority of Americans voted for him twice.

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