C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Correct.I was enjoying an ice cream treat in a fast food place today when this woman sat down a few tables from me and loudly proclaimed after seeing CNN on the TV... "Trump is such a jerk"!
I was really offended because I am a Trump supporter so she by association would think I'm a "Jerk".
So I told her several FACTS about Trump like:
1) Trump like me believes America is exceptional and the main reason Trump like me KNOW that America's exceptionalism comes from "legal immigrants" like my daughter-in-law who became citizens LEGALLY!
2) I also told her that what she was hearing/reading from the MSM was biased and that much of it was not honest.
We discussed further and being 80 years old she said FDR was a great president. To which I advised
her FDR deported illegals and put into internment camps Japanese. She didn't know.
I further went on to try to influence her opinion regarding the bias of the MSM and asked if she'd heard
of the SDS/Weathermen. Of course she didn't! I explained how journalism has been so corrupted by
socialists teaching in schools that Kindergarten students from PS75, a public school in New York City, recently took part in a class project in which the children were made to create an American flag with the flags of other 22 other nations superimposed over the stripes. Below the flag read the words "We pledge allegiance to an International Flag."
Read more: Outrageous! Public School Students Taught To 'Pledge Allegiance To An International Flag' | The Sean Hannity Show
The whole thing can be summed up though by her comment after I told her I spent hours every day
reading material about politics, our country and the massive problems. Her comment..." I don't have time to do that"! Right! She doesn't have the time....YET she calls Trump a Jerk after watching CNN and all the other biased MSM network/newspapers continually tear apart our country with their biased and totally subjective reporting!
What a shame our country is so really based on this ignorant woman's comment the same WAY!
You are correct here. Too many people make up their minds based on the sound bites they hear from so-called experts and from celebrities they drool over. Rather than study the candidates thoroughly and make up their minds based upon what they hear and see of the candidates, they go with the opinions of biased news media talking heads. They are too lazy or too stupid or BOTH to make up their own minds.
Look at history. Learn from it. Learn to discern when politicians LIE about who did what in the past. For example, too many people think that the Democrats brought about civil rights for minorities and are true champions of the impoverished black communities. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The KKK came out of the Democratic South. Democrats opposed the civil rights that Republicans championed for decades before they finally saw it as a chance to win the votes that they previously fought against offering. It wasn't until 1964 that the Democrats saw it as a way to create the welfare plantation, allowing blacks to quit picking cotton and start picking up welfare checks in exchange for their votes. LBJ actually did say, when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act that he would "have these ******* voting Democrat for the next hunderd years". Blacks still vote predominantly Democrat because they do not see the damage the Democrats have done to their culture. They see only the freebies that the Democrats continue to offer....and they forget (or are completely ignorant of the fact) that the Democrats RELUCTANTLY granted them the rights that Republicans had long fought for. They seem to forget also that it was Lincoln, A REPUBLICAN that freed the slaves.
Your racist rant is duly noted. People who know our actual history also know that you're misrepresenting it. The Democrats did in fact bring about civil rights with the help of progressive Republicans. However, the Southern Democrats objected and broke away from the Democratic party and formed their own party (the Dixiecrats). Progressive Republicans shifted over to the Democratic party, and the DixieCrats and anti-progress Republicans combined to form the present day Republican party. The Republican party that exists today is not Abraham Lincoln's party. You belong in the same category as Cliven Bundy who tells us about "the Negro" who never learned to pick cotton. Your references to the "welfare plantation", etc., are offensive.
In essence the bigotry, racism, intolerance and hate unique to Southern democrats was transferred to the GOP during the late 60s and early 70s, as the democratic party as a whole rejected that bigotry, racism, intolerance and hate during that period, where bigots and racists found refuge in the republican party desperate to expand in the South.