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In reply to the discussion: This is an angry working class conservative [View all]YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)35. The same can be said of middle and upper class conservatives
Yet they aren't the target of this divisive, contemptuous OP. Why is that? Why pick on working class people?
Maybe affluent liberals are insecure about the Democratic Party's ability or willingness to help the working class. Perhaps that is why?
Most Tea Partiers I know or know of are NOT "working class", FWIW.
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Well said, maindawg. 'That we are all equal...must respect the rights of each and every person....'
freshwest
Nov 2012
#15
I'm wondering if the picture is trying to be offensive to the working class people.
MichaelMcGuire
Nov 2012
#5
I think the lack of education is really key here. They feel inferior, so overcompensate.
Squinch
Nov 2012
#57
4) The Democratic Party dismisses and belittles them; the Republicans flatter and court them
YoungDemCA
Nov 2012
#70
The main part of "cultural liberalism" that seems to "turn off" the white working class
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2012
#75
Um, yeah, since you saw the need to state it as if it was your idea, you obviously missed my point.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2012
#90
Lol! To be clear, my point wasn't about my opinion of those behaviors, but about the RWers'
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2012
#91
Not necessarily "Truth". I'd change "dumb" to misinformed and manipulated by
whathehell
Nov 2012
#36
Same look I see with libertarians up here. Aggressive, looking for a fight over imagined slights.
freshwest
Nov 2012
#28
I generally smile at them. Which just makes it worse. Fortunately, most won't hit you in the store.
freshwest
Nov 2012
#41
The comments at your link are hysterically funny and scary batshit crazy. Wow. nt
Mnemosyne
Nov 2012
#51
Many of the batshit crazy ones sound like three of my sisters! No wonder we are estranged. nt
Mnemosyne
Nov 2012
#56
"white Americans have become anti-intellectual, anti-reflective and unworthy of any respect at all."
just1voice
Nov 2012
#50
I think there is a distinction between upper and working class conservatives
LiberalLovinLug
Nov 2012
#55
Get back to me when any one of those groups have run this country for over 200 years.
Ikonoklast
Nov 2012
#53
And a poor White person in this country STILL has benefits that don't extend to people of color.
Ikonoklast
Nov 2012
#89
A middle class white person STILL has benefits that don't extend to poor white people
YoungDemCA
Dec 2012
#92