Open Letter to all Conservatives in public office
I can’t believe we even have to write this. One would think that sincere people who claim a certain set of ideals would hold to those ideals no matter the circumstances. Apparently that is not the case however so I have a set of questions for all of you.
- If you are married, have you ever had an affair? Yes, it is pertinent. No, it is not “private”. If your spouse can’t trust you how can your constituents? Quit the whining and answer the question.
- Have you ever had or funded an abortion to cover your political hide?
- Have you ever cut a deal through your political connections that materially benefited you, laughed, and thought, “They’ll never know!”?
If you answer YES one or more questions please tender your resignation immediately. Find the nearest television studio and present yourself for an exit interview where you will read the answers to these questions and answer any and all questions put to you. Said interview will end when the NEWSIE says its over.
We are sick of your infidelity. We are sick of your shady deals. We are sick of your hypocrisy. Shut up, sit down, answer the damned questions.
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Governor Sanford MUST Resign or be kicked out.
Governor Sanford is the latest asshat to make a mockery out of what he supposedly believed in. The American Political left should be all over this making all the hay they can. This is a man who claimed a set of principles and violated them in a most heinous way. Leaving his wife and kids on FATHERS DAY to get his wick dipped with some tramp in Argentina. This man deserves every bit of scorn heaped upon him.
All other “conservatives” who believe he should get a pass and NOT resign his Governorship should be excluded publically from the Republican and Conservative caucus whether that is in Columbia or in DC. They should be shunned, ostracized, labelled as the hypocrits they are and turned out to the wolves in the media. Whatever adolescent question the newsies can think of should be answered by them and should they refuse WE should demand the answer.
This holds true with every other “conservative” out there who cares so little for their beliefs, their families, and their ideals. The climate is too hot and the times too critical for us to have anything other than honest, forthright, and bold leadership in our State and Federal governments. If you are currently screwing everything but your wife then just fess up, resign your position, and get the H**L out of our government.
We expect this behavior from John Edwards and his kind. They claim no Faith Based guidance in their lives. They have no such moral code that real Conservatives claim. When was the last time you heard Edwards, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, or Senator Reid claim ANY higher power guiding their decisions? Since they have no such guidance we can expect immoral and depraved behavior from them whether that is crisco laden farm animal orgies or the kind of fiscal irresponsibility currently oozing out of the White House and Congress.
We Conservatives claim some higher power as our guiding light. For many it is Christ. Others maybe Muslim, Hindu, Shinto, Pagan, or whatever else. The point is we have a code that drives us to live a life that makes us different from those who have no such code. We value family. We value our committments to friends and constituents. We don’t waiver with the social or political winds. Our code doesn’t change.
We all screw up occassionally. Mistakes are unplanned incidents that bring about unexpected and unwanted results. A mistake maybe supporting someone who turns out to be…I don’t know…CHEATING ON HIS WIFE AND LEAVING HIS STATE LEADERLESS FOR FOUR DAYS. That was a big mistake.
Planning a trip out of the country. Taking that trip without telling a soul. That is not a mistake. It’s not even “poor judgement”. No. That is head banging, howling at the moon, stupidity.
Having your knob polished by someone other than your wife is not a mistake. It’s not even “poor judgement”. It is a slap in the face to your wife and family. It is a crowbar to the side of the skull to every voter in South Carolina that supported you. It is a knife in the back of your supporters nationwide. Thankfully it is also the executioner’s axe to the neck of your political career.
Governor Sanford, resign your office and save the good and honorable people of South Carolina the humiliation of having to compare you to former President Clinton.
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Iranian Election Riots #iranelection #foxfail #cnnfail
Whether this is the beginnings of a revolution or not we do not know. What we do know is alot of people in Iran are seriously pissed off. Question is, are they pissed because their guy lost? Are the pissed because Imadinnerjacket didn’t lose? Are the pissed because they are tired of living under the thumb of a theocracy? I’m not sure anyone here in the US can know that for certain. There may be Persian experts that have a clue but I surely don’t.
I do know this, a destabilized Iran is a good thing for the US. If they have to pull back their forces from Iraq and Afghanistan then it’s a good thing for the US as well as those two struggling democracies.
I have watched the traffic on twitter since none of the legacy media in the US has taken the time to cover it. Tragic stories for sure. I’m supporting the students and the opposition but not because I agree with their platforms. At this point anyone would be better than Imadinnerjacket and the change in the country would be a good thing.
Sure would be nice if the legacy media would pick up the story. I guess it’s pretty hard to do though. Especially when you are so busy one upping the competition on the latest beauty queen to speak her mind or the latest cute white girl who missed curfew or playing referee between two or more folks screaming at each other over something no one can quite understand…because of all the screaming.
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Murder of George Tiller
It sickens me when something like this happens. Not because of the damage this will do to Christians, the Pro-Life or Conservative cause. These groups will always catch 7 layers of hell no matter what we do. We are told that we will be hated for what we believe in. No, what sickens me is that some asshat felt it necessary to become a barbarian. Dr. Tiller, while his occupation is disturbing in the extreme, had every right to a long, full, life. Mr. Roeder decided to play God and killed this poor man in cold blood in the House of God.
God doesn’t graduate sin. My lusts of the heart are no different than your little white lies in God’s eyes. Mr. Roeder’s cold blooded murder of Dr. Tiller is no different than Dr. Tiller’s abortion practice. As the wise and loquacious philosopher Ulysses Everett McGill said when discussing the baptism of his friends:
Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us.
Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I’m surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar.
Delmar O’Donnell: But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That’s not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi’s a little more hard-nosed.
The United States Justice System is a little more hard nosed Mr. Roeder. For your crime you will surely get life in prison if not the death penalty. You will claim the role of Peter and Paul but you are wrong again. Their imprisonment was for spreading the Gospel. All you have done is take an innocent human life.
Yes, I said innocent. Dr. Tiller’s occupation is legal in our country. He has the perfect right to kill children in utero as sad as that is. Because you disagree with his occupation based on your faith does not give you the right to murder the man. You are no different than the barbarians. You have robbed the world of potentially one of the greatest testimonies of Faith. Had Dr. Tiller come to faith later in life he would have one hell of a story to tell. Thank you Mr. Roeder for preventing him from coming to a saving Faith in Christ.
I pray God shows some mercy on Dr. Tiller and Mr. Roeder.
As for all you folks out there glorifying this idiot…spend alittle more time in prayer about this. Christians do not advocate the murder of the innocent. That is why we ARE Pro Life. To glorify Mr. Roeder’s actions here makes you no better than the barbarians. Ed at Hotair puts you in the same league as Bill Ayers and a select few others…
The murder of George Tiller at his church is a heinous crime, without any sense or justice. Regardless of how one feels about George Tiller’s profession, his murderer is nothing more than a domestic terrorist — someone attempting to impose by force a policy that one cannot get in place through democratic means. Tiller’s killer is no better than William Ayers, Kathleen Soliah, and Eric Rudolph, people who attempted to use violence for their extremist ends. Those who value life know that murder is the antithesis of the pro-life movement.
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The fight for the Republican Party
A month later down to road and nothing much of interest has happened on the local, state, or federal levels. Same old crap…same crazy spending…same BS rhetoric. The one thing of interest that has caught my eye is how former Vice President Cheney seems to be leading President Obama around by a nose ring as far as Gitmo is concerned. Like an errant hog, the President reluctantly follows the tug of Cheney’s leash to the
The battle emerging within the Republican Party is between the Country Club elitists (McConnell, Powell, Frum) and the Back Country individualists (Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney). This fight has been a long time in coming and I find myself squarely in the camp of Cheney and Palin. I’m not for tossing the Country Clubbers out of the party but I do wish they would recognize, for better or worse, that us back country types are now in this for the long haul. In fact, we were never out of the debate. McConnell can tell you about the switchboard melting down during Amnestypalooza a couple years ago. That was us…not Powell and not David Frum. We are the core of the party. We bust our asses to pay our bills, take care of our families, and make our communities better places to live. We do all that without holding our hands out to the government and are damn proud of it.
While McConnell refuses to support his long time colleague from Kentucky, Senator Bunning, he shows his true colors. While Bunning may be a bit long in the tooth and sometimes decides to eat his foot, he is always on the correct side of the issues and doesn’t give a wit about the politically correct position that seems to keep the attention of the Minority Leader. I’ll support Senator Bunning at least until Rand Paul enters the race.
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Powerline offers analysis of TARP Funds Report
John Hinderake at Powerline offers this analysis of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program or SIGTARP. Can’t say I’m surprised too much by the findings of the report.
SecTreas Geithner would be a fool to force the release of how these funds have been used or to even suggest to these banks that they need policies and procedures for said accounting. Can’t have that kinda thing on paper! Why that could mean having to read from it during the investigation which is sure to come eventually.
Check out Powerline for the full discussion.
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She’s a Witch! Burn Her! Burn HER!!
I have tried to be the Loyal Opposition to this President. I have bent over backwards to give this guy the room to be a president with a far different agenda that I would have. Elections mean things and he is the first president in over 20 years that won a clear majority of the votes. He deserves some room to do what his constituents elected him to do. Our job as the opposition is to make the best of what we consider a bad situation and try to find someone to run against the President in the next election.
As with just about anything, there is a line that just can’t be crossed. For me, one of those lines is John “Winter Soldier” Kerry as SecDef would be one of those lines. Another line is the witchunt we are poised to see regarding the Bush Administrations interrogations of barbarians.
This is going to generate all kinds of heated discussions around watercoolers. I will support and defend the Bush Administrations decisions to waterboard KSM, Zubaydah, and that other waste of carbon. They saved lives by doing so and that is documented. We are fighting a group that has no nation, wear no uniform, and use innocents as shields. They are sub-human and are not covered by any civilized rules of war. Skin them b@st@rds alive if that’s what it takes to get the information we want and then allow them to rot. NO. MERCY.
If the American Left want political war, this will do it. Issue one indictment on this and I will support any article of impeachment against this President. I will support any peaceful effort whatever to remove him from the office of Lincoln and Reagan. I will NOT support any rhetoric of “can’t we all just get along”.
If they try to take down the previous administration for this and Obama does nothing to stop it then he is no better than the barbarians he is protecting. NO. MERCY.
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GOP Senator Mike Enzi to co-sponsor bill to bring sales tax to Online Sales
Michelle Malkin is on the case and I’ll be watching for the text of the bill to hit THOMAS in the coming days and weeks. In the meantime it’s time to POUND our Kentucky delegation DEMANDING that they stop this from happening.
Minority Leader McConnell is the first place to hit. He can stop this before it gets started.
Washington Office
361-A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2541
Fax: (202) 224-2499
Contact page
Senator Jim Bunning’s office is the next stop. Demand that he convince his colleagues in the Senate to refuse to hear this thing.
Washington, D.C.
316 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202.224.4343
Fax: 202.228.1373
Contact page
While we are at it, let’s get our House members in on this as well…
First District
Ed Whitfield (R)
2411 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3115 Voice
(202) 225-3547 Fax
contact page
Second District
Ron Lewis (R)
DC Office:
2418 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-1702
Phone: 202-225-3501
No Website(!?!) use the House Contact page here.
Third District
John Yarmouth (D)
435 Cannon House Office Building
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5401
FAX 202-225-5776
Contact page
Fourth District
Geoff Davis (R)
1108 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
p: 202-225-3465
f: 202-225-0003
Contact page
Fifth District
Hal Rogers (R)
Washington,DC Office
2406 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-4601 — phone
202-225-0940 — fax
Contact page
Sixth District
Ben Chandler (D)
1504 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202)-225-4706
Fax: (202)-225-2122
Contact page
Let them hear you and make sure you tell them you attend Tea Parties and will hold them accountable in their Primary or General Elections. Senator McConnell isn’t on the ballot in 2010 but still, remind him anyway.
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Thoughts on the Tea Parties
I attended the Frankfort Tea party on Tax day as well as the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions sponsored event at Applebee’s Park this past Saturday. I watched the coverage of the other events across the country and was left with a sense that this is potentially something much larger than any of us have considered. There are also some rabbit trails lurking along the periphery that we should be careful of.
First, I want to talk about the rabbit trails. Some of you may not understand what I’m saying while others, particularly those who have hunted rabbits with dogs, know exactly what I’m saying. A rabbit trail is something that will serve as a distraction to the main purpose. We must be conscious of our mission with the Tea Parties and keep our sites squarely set on the people responsible for the out of control spending. While this current President is part of that problem, the bulk of the blame rests with Congress, the Kentucky Legislature, and frankly the previous President and Congress. Had President Bush taken a principled stand against throwing money at the credit crunch in October then President Obama would’ve had a much more difficult time getting some of his spending programs implemented. President Bush, Minority Leaders Boehner and McConnell, and other leading Republicans in the US Congress with very few exceptions should feel our wrath as well as Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, and the rest of the far left elected officials. To print up our signs and slogans targetting President Obama ignores the folks we need to really go after.
Republicans are supposed to be about lower taxes and responsible spending folks. They all say it when they are campaigning but very few of them hold to those principles once in office. Every one of these people like Senator McConnell (in DC) and Senator David Williams (in Frankfort) should hear from everyone of us on a daily basis reminding them that they are in leadership positions ONLY because we have elected them. They should wake up every morning DREADING their email and phones. We should also rhetorically pound on the Democrats but we have to realize that they are doing exactly what they were elected to do by their constituents. It is our job to make sure that they don’t get reelected or at least they change their ways…doubtful but so was General Washington’s chances of defeating General Cornwallis.
Bottom line, we should rhetorically target ANY elected official who seems to have forgotten that they work for us. We just need to remember who’s behavior we have a better chance of altering. Is it those politicians who expect our votes or those who do not?
Now, how big can this thing get? The Americans for Tax Reform folks have what I think is a conservative estimate of the nationwide attendance for Tax Day. They say there were 360,495 folks nationwide that took time out of their day, probably a lot of these folks were like me and took time off from work, to attend these demonstrations. I would bet for every person that attended these events there are 3 or 4 others that wanted to come but were either too timid, busy, or concerned about childcare to attend. As word spreads about how peaceful these events are, how informative they are, and how much the elected politicians are concerned about them, we will see more interest and better turnout.
It is very important that we all keep the correct perspective with this movement. We don’t need a national leader. We don’t need someone to step forward and be a mouth piece because that person will become a single point of failure for us. This past week we had the far left at MSNBC and CNN attacking us the only way they know how without a national figure to target. They used their standard crude innuendo, class warfare, and race baiting in an effort to denigrate and isolate the message. The moment a national figure emerges they will attack the personality, dig into their past to find that one moment of moral failure we all have, and paint the rest of us as hypocrites. Let’s keep this thing a loose collection of individual groups of people who come together periodically. These individual groups will have organizers that build events for the groups to attend but I don’t think those organizers should be considered leaders. None of us can point to a single human personality that is responsible for our positions of fiscal conservatism and traditional American values. We have come together because we agree with EACH OTHER. Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest American Presidents in history. He was elected not because we agreed with his philosophy but because he agreed with OURS. I firmly believe that we have lost control of our elected politicians because we have confused being led with leadership. John McCain LED US straight to defeat in November. Of the people I know who supported Senator McCain no one could tell me where Senator McCain agreed with their political philosophy. We all voted for Senator McCain simply because he wasn’t Senator Obama. During the primary we started looking for people who we thought could defeat the Democrats in November rather than looking for the candidate who agreed with our philosophy. We got what we deserved. If we allow someone to become a national spokesperson for this movement we will once again find ourselves struggling to lead that person or be led by that person until that person is destroyed by the legacy media.
Groups like the 9-12 Project (the Social Network – The Official site) and Kentucky Grassroots Patriots are the future of this movement. We can organize ourselves for local events and attend regional and (hopefully) national events as a group. As local groups develop and grow into strong grassroots political activist organizations that national movement gets stronger and continues to gain momentum. Right now it is hard to determine the future impact of this thing. In 1994 there were no social networks on the web…there was barely a web! Yet we still managed to shock the establishment politicians and send a conservative class of representatives to Washington DC. Today we have far better communication tools and frankly much more at stake. The 2010 election cycle is going to be very interesting.
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Bluegrass Tax Liberation Day
Bluegrass Tax Liberation Day Pics
Weather was great. Crowd was great. Speakers were outstanding. Many fine organizations on hand with excellent information available for the asking. From where I stood it looked like a huge success. I saw where many people had taken the opportunity to sign up on the contact sheets and petitions.
I took a look at all the local media websites and saw nothing in the way of coverage. I’m not at all surprised by that and frankly don’t care whether they cover us or not. Eventually they will be forced to cover us.
There was one thing that bothered me about both the Frankfort Tea Party event and the Bluegrass Tax Liberation Day event. It seems that some folks are still caught up in the petty attacks we can make against the President. Don’t misunderstand, we have PLENTY on which to disagree with this President. It just seems to me that the taxation and wasteful spending we are protesting is more a function of the Congress than the President. Another thing is we should be hammering the Republicans that have supported Bailoutpalooza and Stimuluspalooza. We expect over the top spending from this current crop of Democrats. We should still voice our opposition to it but it doesn’t come as any kind of surprise. When Kentucky’s Republicans support it we should do everything we can to get their names and explanations out to the people in anyway possible.
Aside from that, I had a great time and hope everyone else did as well. Let’s keep this going by focusing more and targetting our home district representation in both Frankfort and Washington. The people who represent us need to start feeling the pressure. They should look forward to May 2010 with much fear and trepidation so much so that they actually have no plans to run for the General Election in November.
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Tax Day Tea Party
Here we are in the capital of the great Commonwealth of Kentucky telling Governor Beshear, Speaker Stumbo, Senator Williams and as well as all those boneheads in Congress and the Whitehouse that we have had it with the spending. Whether it was President Bush or President Obama, it doesn’t matter. There’s only so much we are going to put up with before we start saying ENOUGH!
We don’t work for them, they work for us. It seems they have forgotten that detail. Here’s hoping that today is the humble beginnings of something bigger.
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who is going to pay for the deficit now?
The folks at RedState took an old ad and have given it new life…
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Jimmy Carter supports American Slavery
What a friggin disgrace! Jimmy Carter comments come in a new book, “In Lincoln’s Hand: His Original Manuscripts With Commentary By Distinguished Americans.”
Carter comments on a passage by Lincoln in which Lincoln writes: “I am almost ready to say this is probably true – that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet.”
Carter writes that he finds the Lincoln writing “very troubling.” Continues Carter: “He ignores the fact that the tragic combat might have been avoided altogether, and that the leaders of both sides, overwhelmingly Christian, were violating a basic premise of their belief as followers of the Prince of Peace.” He concludes: “A legitimate question for historians is how soon the blight of slavery would have been terminated peacefully in America, as in Great Britain and other civilized societies.”
so I guess he’s saying over 200 years of enslavement at the time the Civil War started wasn’t TOO MUCH? So Jimmy, were those slaves so blind to their condition that a few more DECADES wouldn’t have mattered? You say that Lincoln IGNORES THE FACT?
**deep breath…10….9….8….7….**
I don’t know if it’s age setting in or if he was always this stupid. Either way, he should just keep building houses and stay away from writing books and anything close to the media. He’s an embarassment.
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Forests and Trees
This past week we endured a round of pitchforks and torches in the Congress with some of those people calling for a return of the AIG bonuses and others going further than that by quite openly calling for these executives to kill themselves for taking money that was rightly theirs. We can argue about the AIG bailout. We can argue over how AIG should use the bailout money with respect to it being taxpayer money. We have been arguing over President Obama’s outrageous spending in the Stimulus package and his proposed budget. We are losing sight of a much larger issue however.
I talked alittle about this here. I have seen far too few people talking about this oversight and it concerns me. We have tea parties popping up all over the country with people of all stripes coming out to protest the fleecing of the responsible and the encouragement of the scoundrel. Throughout the tea parties, the news coverage of the AIG travesty, and the debate over the proposed federal budget there is one thing that no one is really talking about.
When we were in school and someone came up and demanded our lunch money we called that person a bully. If we are on the street and someone lifts our wallet or steals our purse we call that person a thief. Both the bully and the thief will have some wild excuse for their need of our money. Maybe it’s because they can’t find work and have to feed their baby. Maybe it’s because they need a drug fix. Maybe it’s because they are just evil b@st@rds. Whatever the reason reasonable Americans will still call them a bully and a thief.
What makes the Congress any different than the bully and the thief when considering their actions against the AIG bonus executives last week? These people were being compensated for work they had done. The money was already in their pockets. What the House of Representatives have done is reach into the pockets of private citizens to take something from them. The congressmen and women will say they are defending the American Taxpayer, but they didn’t have any such principles when they passed the stimulus package. Whatever the reason, reasonable Americans will call them bullies and thieves.
Reasonable Americans will also recognize a very sinister and dangerous precedent being set. The debate leading up to the vote in the House was chock full of hyperbolic rants about how much certain House members didn’t like these executives. They moved forward with this bill and passed it out of the House for the sole reason of not liking the people that took the bonuses. They singled out a select group of American Citizens, reached into their pockets, and are trying to take their money. Reasonable Americans will call them bullies and thieves.
Obviously, members of the House of Representatives are not ragamuffins on the street trying to pilfer money for booze…well maybe some of them are but that’s for another rant. They should be honorable members of their communities led by civic duty to stand for election as their community’s representative in our Federal Government. They should take that responsibility seriously and always remember that it is The People that put them in their office in DC. They should wake every morning and think, “What can I do today that will be in the best interest of my district and my Country?” These people take an oath before they take their seats in the House.
“I, (name of Member), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” (emphasis mine)
Article 1, Section 9 of the United States Constitution:
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
While we have found ourselves all worked up over whether Secretary Geithner knew about the bonuses, who is to blame for the existence of the bonuses, or the bailout in the first place we have lost sight of a very sinister and dangerous thing. We are angrily staring and shouting at the trees be they Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, or Liberals. We concern ourselves with a dollar figure in the millions, billions, and trillions and scream at each other because it’s just too much. OH how we are mortgaging our children and grandchildren’s futures! We are staring at some very BIG trees.
The forest is bigger still. What we witnessed last week was the United States House of Representatives passing in true Bi-partisan style a bill that they had to think was a worthwhile use of American Citizens time. That bill would take money from specific individuals simply because the United States House of Representatives didn’t like them or what they did.
So…who’s next? The House is going after those they deem as greedy rich people right now. What happens when they decide that those who
That’s right Mr. President, what happens when those who get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations?
Don’t miss the forest for the trees people.
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