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In reply to the discussion: I just got off of the phone from an old fashioned KKKarl Rove style Republican/teabagger push poll [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)25. I used to do that kind of thing.
At some point I just decided it was a waste of time; I was talking to a low-wage person who was just trying to get through a day at work. The most I could hope for would be to convert that person to my perspective, but this was an unlikely outcome of the interaction. Therefore I just disengage. I'd be far better off putting my thoughts into a letter to the editor or something.
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I just got off of the phone from an old fashioned KKKarl Rove style Republican/teabagger push poll [View all]
MarianJack
Aug 2014
OP
Agreed. I restrain myself from taking out my ire on minimum wage workers like that. I tell them and
freshwest
Aug 2014
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