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heaven05

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7. anger is my

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #3)

Fri May 5, 2017, 01:09 PM

May 2017

driving force these days and may 2 we had a special millage vote....my precinct, 105 people voted, out of many, many more eligible. Saddened me. People still haven't learned....voting still counts....millage for school funding passed. 9% of registered voters all precincts voted. lazy, cynical, just giving up? true americans better wake up

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Can I have, from any interested parties [View all] heaven05 May 2017 OP

One of the five deplorables I have since cut communication with for voting for DT HAB911 May 2017 #1

thanks heaven05 May 2017 #2

Every expert and statistic says Obama was unbelievably successful especially given Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #4

I believe that to be correct HAB911 May 2017 #6

Obama was and is a fantastic man, as his wife and children are fantastic people. Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #3

anger is my heaven05 May 2017 #7

I cant shake this constant feeling as a white male that I am part of what simply Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #9

"Now is the time for"..... heaven05 May 2017 #15

It is all about energizing the rabid (and racist) right wing base. Nitram May 2017 #5

well they are energized heaven05 May 2017 #8

In part it is fear. sheshe2 May 2017 #10

I just hope heaven05 May 2017 #11

I am too heaven. sheshe2 May 2017 #12

They're racist, homophobic, sexist assholes, who would rather slice off their own noses... MrScorpio May 2017 #13

just to deny heaven05 May 2017 #14

Obamacare repeal is based on racial resentment HAB911 May 2017 #16