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To: bart13 who wrote (117399)	3/23/2016 1:52:05 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	2 Recommendations Recommended By Fiscally Conservative ggersh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217802

I'm curious how you feel the American dream has failed you. I'd ask John Vosilla the same thing. It's always curious how embittered the two of you become over the improving fortunes of others. The New York Times has now published an amusing compendium of all of the complaints Donald Trump has posted on Twitter. Something which clearly resonates with other whiners and complainers. - nytimes.com

To: bart13 who wrote (117399)	3/23/2016 2:34:42 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217802

This part of the article is pretty good. " Last week, in assessing the rise of Donald Trump, New York Times columnist David Brooks engaged in an uncharacteristic bit of self-reflection: “Trump voters,” he wrote, “are a coalition of the dispossessed. They have suffered lost jobs, lost wages, lost dreams. The American system is not working for them, so naturally they are looking for something else. Moreover, many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they would express their alienation. We expected Trump to fizzle because we were not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully enough. For me, it’s a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if I’m going to report accurately on this country.” (Emphasis added.) Well, it’s a lesson for a lot of people in the punditocracy, of whom Brooks — who famously endorsed Barack Obama after viewing his sharply creased pants — is just one. And if Brooks et al. had paid attention, the roots of the Trump phenomenon wouldn’t have been so difficult to fathom. Brooks is, of course, horrified at Trump and his supporters, whom he finds childish, thuggish and contemptuous of the things that David Brooks likes about today’s America. It’s clear that he’d like a social/political revolution that was more refined, better-mannered, more focused on the Constitution and, well, more bourgeois as opposed to in-your-face and working class.

To: bart13 who wrote (117399)	3/23/2016 2:43:24 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217802

But this part of the article at the end is dead wrong. The person that wrote that gets an F from the teacher. Because it is exactly wrong. The Democrats that were against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, were "Dixiecrat's" for crying out loud. Many of them were the old George Wallace, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond Southern racists. Those Dixiecrat's were conservative Southern Democrats that "changed" from the Democratic to the Republican Party after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And as Johnson predicted the 1964 Civil Rights Act would lose the South to the Democrats for a generation and he was right on the money. But think about it. Those Dixiecrat's change to the Republican Party because Republican Party, and this is the dirty little secret, offered to hold back on integration as much as they can. It was a dog whistle. And guys likely Atwood built the entire Southern strategy based on that racism. Scroll down. en.wikipedia.org There wasn't a single liberal among that group. And not a single liberal has won in the South for 50 years. It is the reddest as part of the country and there are no liberals that are going to win office down there. So I don't know what the hell he's talking about, but he aught to find another occupation-lol. << " usatoday.com (Liberals now frantically trying to come up with a way to again play the blame game and put it on Reagan, while ignoring that they were the party of abject racism in the 50s and 60s per their opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Bill of 1968 -g-, with extra lulz)