[ExI] Fwd: Just how deplorable are Trump supporters?

[Dylan Distasio]

Very well said, Spike.  I could not have said explained it more eloquently
myself.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:58 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Fwd: Just how deplorable are Trump supporters?
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> It was probably a mistake for Hillary to say half of Trump's supporters
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> politics to tell the truth, the voters will punish you for it if you do.
> Among Trump supporters 38% wish the south had won the Civil War,  20% think
> Abraham Lincoln should not have signed the emancipation proclamation
> freeing the slaves and another 20% aren't sure if it was a good idea or not.
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> Ja, I have noticed how that basket of deplorables comment has taken a life
> of its own.  I see how it was worded.  But it vaguely feels like anyone who
> can identify with any of those characteristics are being tossed into that
> basket.  One of those was those who feel the government has let us down.
> Well now.  Our government damn sure has let us down.  It has borrowed and
> spent all this money with no credible means of repaying it, borrowed and
> spent the forced retirement plan Social Security, never even came close to
> explaining how that will work or what will happen when that fund is out of
> money.  Our head of the IRS is being impeached for systematic deception, we
> have aids to a major party pleading the fifth and we can’t even find one of
> them now, we have two secretaries of state who conspired to break the law,
> we have the most corrupt administration in American history.  Ja, the
> government has damn sure let us down.  So those who see it this way are
> asked to listen to a major party candidate spewing contempt on us, when she
> was one of the biggest players in that.
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> So… not too surprising is the result.  We have the Team Deplorable
> T-shirts, the counterpunch where Team Deplorable consists of those who
> demand honesty and accountability in government.  It isn’t racist,
> homophobic, any of that vile stuff.  Plenty of Team Deplorable are those
> who demand an honest and accountable government.  Every day that uncovers
> yet more government sleaze (which is to say every day) is a day this team
> is considered more deplorable.
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> This may result in a big change in the definition of the term.  I will
> never use it the same way again.  It is now too ambiguous.
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