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In reply to the discussion: "Forget 2012: Long-Term Demographic Trends Favorable to Republicans" [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)13. He must be high on some dangerous shit if he thinks that.
The racists, taxophobes, Reaganomics lapdogs and people with no bullshit detector whatsoever are dying in droves. The world is moving on. More and more people each day are convinced that 32 years of dereg, laissez-fail, whiskey-throttle speculative bubbles and Wall Street Governance sold them up a river and left them out to dry.
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"Forget 2012: Long-Term Demographic Trends Favorable to Republicans" [View all]
babylonsister
Nov 2012
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Hopefully - a bunch of old hippies voting to lower the ages for SSI and medicare!
geckosfeet
Nov 2012
#2
NPR lost my financial support and my ears back in 1989-90 with its pro-military
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#51
Hah! That's good. The real debate in this country should occur between
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#50
LOLZZzzzzzzzzz. Sorry but my generation won't be voting "reliably republican" when we're Seniors.
JaneyVee
Nov 2012
#5
And there is a reason for that. "Crazy Eyes" is not just a baseless perception.
Ikonoklast
Dec 2012
#44
This article assumes people just turn conservative the older they get.
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2012
#27
At 40 I was a conservative, at 50 I'm a liberal and growing to loathe the GOP more every day
Populist_Prole
Dec 2012
#33
The Fastest Growing Groups Are Latinos, African Americans, And Asians
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2012
#45
The older folks that reliably vote Republican are dieing off and the new ones
Motown_Johnny
Dec 2012
#47