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Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 12:19 PM Dec 2016

The Republicans are now fully responsible for the economic plight of the Rust Belt and White working

class Americans. Dem governors, state legislatures, senators, etc. have all been replaced by Republicans. No more blaming Democrats for their economic anxiety. No more blaming coastal elites when their jobs go overseas or are lost to automation. No more blaming Dems when their Social Security and Medicare are privatized, and fall short of offering benefits. No more crying when they lose their health insurance or their education system fails to prepare them for global competition.

We need to hold the Republicans fully accountable for their economic plight. If they still support Republicans even though they're still losing economically, then those groups are truly lost.

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brush

(53,764 posts)
2. For a while they'll blame the Dems but after 2-3 years of repug policies . . .
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 12:30 PM
Dec 2016

that favor the rich and screw everyone else, that won't fly as they will have control of the entire federal government and most statehouses.

The coming downturn, and they always happen in repug admins, will be all on their shoulders.

Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
3. How? The Rust belt states have a Republican president, a Republican controlled House of Rep., a
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 12:36 PM
Dec 2016

Republican controlled Senate, Republican governors, Republican state legislators, Fox News, Drudge Report, and Breitbart. They control the world. There's no Democrat to blame any where.

onecaliberal

(32,822 posts)
8. Sadly fox news tells them it's all obamas fault and they are to stupid to stop and realize
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 12:53 PM
Dec 2016

the people in charge of their entire fucking government are republicans who could help but instead choose to enrich themselves and those who pay them to play.

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