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In reply to the discussion: An old white told me to go to hell today [View all]RKP5637
(67,107 posts)and especially, as you say, after this election cycle! Here's the weird part that always gets me ... I live in a very R state which I am planning to move out of ... the people here are pleasant ... you meet them in stores, etc., do business with them, etc., very pleasant for the most part. Then they vote, they vote in a teabagger governor, they vote in a super-teabagger state legislature, and same for congress. They won't even vote for republican moderates. I don't like it, because it tells me that what's operating under the surface is not something I want to be around, so I'm getting out.
I think it must be the 7x24 pounding of republican ideals. It's hard to escape it IMO and sucks in people that do not pay a lot of attention to what is really going on. ... they almost subconsciously get sucked in ... it's a form of brain washing going on ... And then they become hardcore teabaggers with those qualities you mentioned.