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mockmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 12:37 AM
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93. I'm in Wisconsin
and all I hear from the working class is about how those Teachers should stop protesting. I'm living in WTF Land. At work they put Fox news on the TV in one of the lunchrooms and throughout the plant I hear these young guys listening to Coast to Coast at night.

I visit my Mom and she has Fox news on and I tell her stop listening to that shit. She's becoming someone I don't even know anymore.
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  -I can't for the life of me figure out how 'conservatives' have convinced working people Fuzz  Feb-24-11 08:40 PM   #0 
  - Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.  Historic NY   Feb-24-11 08:45 PM   #1 
  - Working people are stupid?  pintobean   Feb-25-11 07:10 AM   #39 
     - Apparently Republican working people are..  Bandit   Feb-25-11 07:26 AM   #45 
     - Fear!  pbrower2a   Feb-25-11 08:36 AM   #54 
     - "Working people" who vote Republican are stupid.  _ed_   Feb-25-11 09:52 AM   #56 
  - Most of us don't get it either  Armstead   Feb-24-11 08:46 PM   #2 
  - Fear and disinformation mostly  Jmaxfie1   Feb-24-11 08:48 PM   #3 
  - And...  GoCubsGo   Feb-25-11 07:15 AM   #41 
  - Robert Reich explains it well  handmade34   Feb-24-11 08:49 PM   #4 
  - And when you say that, you apparently don't have to say anything more...  Orrex   Feb-24-11 09:29 PM   #25 
     - Let me see if I can help her out...  Flubadubya   Feb-26-11 11:12 AM   #86 
        - Thanks!  Orrex   Feb-26-11 11:17 AM   #88 
           - Most welcome...  Flubadubya   Feb-26-11 11:24 AM   #89 
  - I don't get it either.  NOLALady   Feb-24-11 08:49 PM   #5 
  - C'mon now....you know exactly how they do it.  jaysunb   Feb-24-11 08:51 PM   #6 
  - But sharing and greed can't be it because so many of them don't have anything, yet  Fuzz   Feb-24-11 08:57 PM   #10 
  - See # 1  jaysunb   Feb-24-11 09:05 PM   #13 
  - Add fear to the list...  Phentex   Feb-25-11 06:34 AM   #37 
  - I was hoping somebody else would say it so I wouldn't have to.  Solomon   Feb-25-11 07:18 AM   #42 
  - Sadly, you've got it, my friend.  TahitiNut   Feb-25-11 08:09 AM   #50 
  - Welcome home...  jaysunb   Feb-25-11 07:34 PM   #78 
     - No worries, mate.  TahitiNut   Feb-26-11 06:13 AM   #83 
  - "Look, over there!... They make more, have more then you. Don't you just hate that? Don't you  Kip Humphrey   Feb-25-11 08:13 AM   #52 
  - In two ways:  Lyric   Feb-24-11 08:51 PM   #7 
  - I forgot who it was the other night on MSNBC who talked about "narrative reality" vs "real reality"  deutsey   Feb-25-11 07:39 AM   #46 
  - That's it in a nut shell.  BobbyBoring   Feb-26-11 11:29 AM   #90 
  - "God, Guns, and Guts" I believe is the explanatory slogan.  WinkyDink   Feb-24-11 08:52 PM   #8 
  - "God, Guns, and GAYS" n/t  Lil Missy   Feb-24-11 09:06 PM   #14 
     - No; the slogan I used refers to that to which the ignorant masses ADHERE.  WinkyDink   Feb-26-11 11:14 AM   #87 
  - There will always be chickens  joeunderdog   Feb-24-11 08:53 PM   #9 
  - Because the puppet MASTERS behind the Republican......  socialist_n_TN   Feb-24-11 08:57 PM   #11 
  - Spin-doctors.  socialshockwave   Feb-24-11 09:01 PM   #12 
  - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Feb-24-11 09:08 PM   #15 
  - all that and the growth of low wage  lifesbeautifulmagic   Feb-24-11 09:10 PM   #16 
  - They don't teach civics in school anymore for a reason...  kentuck   Feb-24-11 09:11 PM   #17 
  - Simply asserting that you know what "their interests" are doesn't help  Recursion   Feb-24-11 09:12 PM   #18 
  - I cited two, those not enough to get started?  Fuzz   Feb-24-11 09:23 PM   #22 
  - I'm beginning to wonder if you seriously don't WANT to get it.  ClassWarrior   Feb-25-11 12:07 AM   #33 
  - Well said.  ClassWarrior   Feb-24-11 10:59 PM   #31 
  - Obedience  Gregorian   Feb-24-11 09:14 PM   #19 
  - It's all just a big football game?  moondust   Feb-24-11 09:22 PM   #20 
  - another thing I just thought of, is that the  lifesbeautifulmagic   Feb-24-11 09:22 PM   #21 
  - Hate always works.  RagAss   Feb-24-11 09:24 PM   #23 
  - Consider the evolving science of manufactured consent  Newest Reality   Feb-24-11 09:28 PM   #24 
  - +1  snot   Feb-25-11 05:07 PM   #76 
  - Read "Don't Think of an Elephant" by George Lakoff, "Conservatives Without Conscience"...  ClassWarrior   Feb-24-11 09:33 PM   #26 
  - That is the answer, excellent phrase, I'll remember that ....  MicaelS   Feb-25-11 04:33 AM   #36 
  - Repukes are experts  customerserviceguy   Feb-24-11 09:54 PM   #27 
  - Guns, God, Gays, Greed...  ljm2002   Feb-24-11 10:36 PM   #28 
  - Along with "false patriotisim" and xenophopia  JoePhilly   Feb-25-11 07:19 AM   #43 
     - In all fairness  du_da   Feb-25-11 08:08 AM   #49 
        - Except ...  JoePhilly   Feb-25-11 02:25 PM   #71 
           - Do you realize  du_da   Feb-25-11 08:39 PM   #80 
              - Sure, that's what happened ...  JoePhilly   Feb-26-11 08:55 AM   #84 
                 - Go back and reread my post then your response  du_da   Feb-26-11 11:00 AM   #85 
                    - The tone is very key.  JoePhilly   Feb-26-11 03:41 PM   #91 
                       - I don't disagree with you  du_da   Feb-27-11 12:17 AM   #92 
  - Do conservatives not belong to unions? Not collect SS? Not get their houses foreclosed?  Canuckistanian   Feb-24-11 10:37 PM   #29 
  - Followers  KT2000   Feb-24-11 10:46 PM   #30 
  - "many people just do not like any other people except family - if that"  raccoon   Feb-25-11 10:54 AM   #64 
  - I think they haven't read enough history.  OnionPatch   Feb-24-11 11:37 PM   #32 
  - Once you understand the belief system of your audience,  OnyxCollie   Feb-25-11 12:41 AM   #34 
  - Maybe they figure the Democrats have moved so far right in the last  ipaint   Feb-25-11 04:08 AM   #35 
  - Too many complicated answers to a simple problem, imo.  Shandris   Feb-25-11 07:05 AM   #38 
  - It boggles the mind. Take abortion and health care.  Vinca   Feb-25-11 07:13 AM   #40 
  - They learned a long time ago that most people aren't swayed by logical arguments  deutsey   Feb-25-11 07:24 AM   #44 
  - the american president  rdking647   Feb-25-11 07:40 AM   #47 
  - "White collar, blue collar, these are people of modest means..."  IDemo   Feb-25-11 08:07 AM   #48 
  - The big 3 of tyranny, Race, Religion and Money  ksilvas   Feb-25-11 08:12 AM   #51 
  - they did the same with healthcare  spanone   Feb-25-11 08:14 AM   #53 
  - The Right in this country has spent the last forty years propagandizing  QC   Feb-25-11 08:57 AM   #55 
  - Well . . . the simplest explanation is that starting with the Civil Rights  mistertrickster   Feb-25-11 09:52 AM   #57 
  - Guns, Abortion, I don't like the D candidate  Omaha Steve   Feb-25-11 09:55 AM   #58 
  - It's because in America NICE = PUSSY / WEAK  flamingdem   Feb-25-11 09:55 AM   #59 
  - Actually there is really mostly one reason FOX NEWS  flamingdem   Feb-25-11 09:55 AM   #60 
  - One issue, abortion. They vote against their best interests because the right wants to abolish  sarcasmo   Feb-25-11 09:58 AM   #61 
  - They nakedly assert that the profit motive is natural law.  bigmonkey   Feb-25-11 10:18 AM   #62 
  - The fascists spent the 80s and 90s buying control of broadcast newsmedia. That's HOW they did it  blm   Feb-25-11 10:23 AM   #63 
  - I think one of the biggest reasons is this:  HughBeaumont   Feb-25-11 11:26 AM   #65 
  - The Dumbing down of America ...  GeorgeGist   Feb-25-11 11:40 AM   #66 
  - They wrapped themselves in a flag and carried around a cross...  cynatnite   Feb-25-11 11:42 AM   #67 
  - Abortion!!!!! Guns!!!!!!! Gays!!!!!!!  Zoeisright   Feb-25-11 11:50 AM   #68 
  - Propaganda. Really well crafted, profuse and loud lying in many venues. (nt)  ehrnst   Feb-25-11 12:18 PM   #69 
  - An old Russian joke ...  eppur_se_muova   Feb-25-11 01:58 PM   #70 
  - Propaganda  LiberalEsto   Feb-25-11 02:58 PM   #72 
  - Spelled out right in their name, 1st three letters in fact  Cherchez la Femme   Feb-25-11 04:38 PM   #73 
  - History has plenty of examples, for instance pre-WWII Germany  StarburstClock   Feb-25-11 04:40 PM   #74 
  - Bingo !  jaysunb   Feb-25-11 11:22 PM   #82 
  - I think maybe they just hate liberals so much that they don't really care.  Vinee   Feb-25-11 04:45 PM   #75 
  - You provided one reason yourself.  BreweryYardRat   Feb-25-11 06:02 PM   #77 
  - the media the media the media  upi402   Feb-25-11 07:38 PM   #79 
  - television and media  datasuspect   Feb-25-11 08:49 PM   #81 
  - I'm in Wisconsin  mockmonkey   Feb-27-11 12:37 AM   #93 
 

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