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athena

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59. Open your eyes and look around you.

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 10:08 AM

Jun 2016

The real world out there does not always work according to the ideas in your head and the books you choose to read. It's better to live in the real world, accepting its complicated realities, than to reassure yourself that you belong to an intrinsically superior class of person based purely on the politician you have chosen to support.

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The people who complain about their taxes getting stuff for poor people [View all] DonCoquixote Jun 2016 OP

The only people I know who have 5 or more houses StarTrombone Jun 2016 #1

So, you know them. Can you get me their autographs? Oh, Kerry married into the money. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #2

It was revealed in his divorce proceedings StarTrombone Jun 2016 #5

Some people have 5 houses..4 of them may be called rental income, hardly millionaires. Tikki Jun 2016 #11

I'd cower behind implication as well LanternWaste Jun 2016 #3

John McCain has 8 houses, although when asked during his campaign he was unsure of the total Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #6

McCain and Romney are fucking Republicans StarTrombone Jun 2016 #9

I don't think you're interested in what the op had to say tenderfoot Jun 2016 #57

Its the GOP that are always attacking the poor and complaining about taxes lewebley3 Jun 2016 #12

So what? zentrum Jun 2016 #15

thank you z DonCoquixote Jun 2016 #25

Plus won! Enthusiast Jun 2016 #37

Isn't that cute. lapislzi Jun 2016 #16

Hey, John McCain famously cannabis_flower Jun 2016 #21

You forgot John McCain.... AlbertCat Jun 2016 #22

Romney is another, though I don't know him. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #27

Get out much? jamal49 Jun 2016 #34

Liberals are hypocrites? That is your message? Enthusiast Jun 2016 #35

"Limousine liberals!" klook Jun 2016 #47

There is so much more in the post than what you chose Mira Jun 2016 #48

Well, aren't you special. nt. MH1 Jun 2016 #50

I know people like that too and they NEVER whine about having to pay taxes. tenderfoot Jun 2016 #56

Are they the only ones you know .. coco77 Jun 2016 #58

People who complain about their taxes do it because they have little say The2ndWheel Jun 2016 #4

That sums it up nicely... Phentex Jun 2016 #7

But the phrase "free stuff" only comes up when speaking of benefits to low or middle income folks Fumesucker Jun 2016 #10

Nothing is free: but the budget priories choices are skewed to the wealthy 1%: lewebley3 Jun 2016 #14

and our elections system is skewed DonCoquixote Jun 2016 #31

The young don't vote: that is why it skewed: Sanders doesn't tell them it hardwork lewebley3 Jun 2016 #62

Plus won! Enthusiast Jun 2016 #38

Of course The2ndWheel Jun 2016 #61

The GOP people don't believe they owe this country anything: even when they lewebley3 Jun 2016 #13

ok here is where that falls DonCoquixote Jun 2016 #26

Every argument has a hole in it somewhere The2ndWheel Jun 2016 #60

Like the guy I know who spent sorefeet Jun 2016 #8

Unfortunately, bringing public schools into the debate is a no-no lapislzi Jun 2016 #17

And we educated most all of them. n/t jtuck004 Jun 2016 #18

I completely agree with this post. Stonepounder Jun 2016 #19

even sadder is the amount of people on this forum(DU in general) w0nderer Jun 2016 #33

Some of them aren't people. Enthusiast Jun 2016 #39

LOL n/t w0nderer Jun 2016 #51

How you can tell you're being manipulated Major Nikon Jun 2016 #20

Called talking man to a mouse and kairos12 Jun 2016 #24

Plus won! Enthusiast Jun 2016 #40

Right on. These are voters who have to be reckoned with. They are the big part of ancianita Jun 2016 #23

Kickin' for the truth! Faux pas Jun 2016 #28

A picture is worth a thousand journalists... Octafish Jun 2016 #29

Plus won! Enthusiast Jun 2016 #41

I know some of them who are very religious too. Triana Jun 2016 #30

xposted to 'working poor' for more visibility w0nderer Jun 2016 #32

It appears I am not the only one deeply pissed off and irritated by "rich 'splainin'" Dragonfli Jun 2016 #36

I will see that and raise you. DonCoquixote Jun 2016 #42

Plus won! Well said, Dragonfli! Enthusiast Jun 2016 #43

+1 this..so much this n/t w0nderer Jun 2016 #49

"they" are not as good as "me" quaker bill Jun 2016 #44

It's basically just freepers and Clinton supporters Doctor_J Jun 2016 #45

Are you saying "Clinton supporters are authoritarian personalities"? MH1 Jun 2016 #52

Read Bob altmeyers book on authoritarian personalities. It's free and downloadable Doctor_J Jun 2016 #54

Open your eyes and look around you. athena Jun 2016 #59

Also, it's so hypocritical. ananda Jun 2016 #46

Irony! liberal N proud Jun 2016 #53

The Anti Tax People are Destroying this Country McKim Jun 2016 #55