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08-31-2015, 05:10 PM
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You're making this too complicated. Everybody has an issue, but the Chamber Of Commerce's agenda doesn't fit with most Righty's desires.
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That's exactly my point, namely that the GOP establishment is beholden to big business and the wealthy and has hoodwinked the Tea Party/Evangelicals into believing that they actually care about their agenda. They don't and never have. The economic interests of blue collar America are clearly better served by the Dems, but the GOP base is kept too stirred up by cultural/fringe issues to recognize it.
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08-31-2015, 05:12 PM
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That's exactly my point, namely that the GOP establishment is beholden to big business and the wealthy and has hoodwinked the Tea Party/Evangelicals into believing that they actually care about their agenda. They don't and never have.
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That's why we must slay the dragon. 
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08-31-2015, 05:13 PM
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Tea Party types and dittoheads (with considerable overlap) have now become Trump supporters. Maybe they're slowly coming to the realization that they've been the GOP's useful idiots since Nixon's Southern Strategy and Reagan's courting of Evangelicals.
The party's effective (and cynical) appeal to their class/racial resentments, gun fetishes, faith, homophobia, etc., has resulted in them voting against their own best economic interests. The party's odd coalition of big business and resentful, old, impressionable whites may be coming to an end. It's about time.
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They have just realized that the globalists sold them out. 
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08-31-2015, 05:18 PM
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That's why we must slay the dragon. |
And hand over the party's carcass to the likes of Trump, Cruz, or Santorum? Oy vey.
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08-31-2015, 05:20 PM
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That's exactly my point, namely that the GOP establishment is beholden to big business and the wealthy and has hoodwinked the Tea Party/Evangelicals into believing that they actually care about their agenda. They don't and never have. The economic interests of blue collar America are clearly better served by the Dems, but the GOP base is kept too stirred up by cultural/fringe issues to recognize it.
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There it is.
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08-31-2015, 05:22 PM
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. The economic interests of blue collar America are clearly better served by the Dems,
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They are nothing but a rock in my shoe. 
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08-31-2015, 05:34 PM
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They are nothing but a rock in my shoe. |
There's no question that if I were a small business owner, I'd be a Republican. OTOH, as an employee of any private firm or public sector agency, the Dem's would best represent my interests. I guess it depends where your bread is buttered.
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08-31-2015, 05:35 PM
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I think he's hit his head a few too many times.
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08-31-2015, 05:40 PM
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There's no question that if I were a small business owner, I'd be a Republican.
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If you were a small business owner, you wouldn't want the current Republican party either. That is the point.
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