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old man 76

(228 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 03:30 PM Dec 2017

Who is to blame

Who is to blame for the situation this country is in? I feel it may be the Democrats who became Republican.
The people who lost a job when the mills closed and said there is nothing else I can do. The people who
were no longer needed because of automation who said I might as well give up. The people who decided
that their neighborhood was unlivable because people of different ethnic origin, religion or race bought
homes there. The people who changed to conservatives because the liberals wanted to take away some
their gun rights. After all their guns defined who they were. Then a snake oil sales man came along and
told them that he would make America great again. Bring the mills back, deport all the immigrants and anything else
your heart desires. Trust me he promised. True Democrats are progressives who accept that you can’t roll
back time. As the world changes so must the people who live in it. I only hope these people come to that
realization before this country becomes a third world country, or worse, a dictatorship.

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Who is to blame (Original Post) old man 76 Dec 2017 OP
Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #1
Why do we need to fix blame? Sanity Claws Dec 2017 #2
maybe 'blame' is not the best handmade34 Dec 2017 #4
The comfortably well off democrats who liked Reagan's "greed is good" message. CrispyQ Dec 2017 #3

Sanity Claws

(22,053 posts)
2. Why do we need to fix blame?
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 03:46 PM
Dec 2017

Isn't this part of the divisiveness that we are complaining about?

handmade34

(22,940 posts)
4. maybe 'blame' is not the best
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 04:09 PM
Dec 2017

way to word it but we do need to look at sources of attitudes and actions by many people today

CrispyQ

(38,474 posts)
3. The comfortably well off democrats who liked Reagan's "greed is good" message.
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 03:48 PM
Dec 2017

I knew a lot of them.

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