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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every woman in my family voted for Trump, all 7 of us. Hillary appealed to none of us. And we don't need Trump to take care of us, false. Women who vote for Hillary want the gov to hand out health care, SNAP, section 8, etc, and take care of them and their families.[/quote]

Proof that the NYT didn't have to search hard to find stupid women who voted for Trump.[/quote]

Women with college degrees didn't favor Trump - women without college degrees voted for him by wide margins.  As Trump himself once said, he loves the uneducated.  And the uneducated love him too.  [/quote]

Wow, I forgot about that comment.  I remember thinking at the time he said it that he had just been briefed on his target audience.

I also wondered who and how anyone could be so proud of being uneducated that they'd feel Trump was speaking directly to them.  The very comment is an insult wrapped in flattery, but Trump knows the minds of his audience well - perhaps because he's just like them.  Flattery works.[/quote]

Maybe the over educated could learn from the uneducated.  Some of the best business people I work with are first generation immigrants and gutsy Americans who built a business on hard work.  My IT guy's father has a PhD and his son has a GED and employs over 100 people.   [/quote]

You're missing the point.  Or maybe just exploiting it in the same way that Trump did.  The point is not that a college degree is required for success.  It's that a lack of a college degree is being celebrated as a point of pride.

Getting an education IS hard work.  And many Americans could learn something from the immigrant examples in your post.[/quote]

The Democrats were treating lack of a college degree as a moral failing. "The uneducated" can either side with a guy who props them up as an example to emulate, or side with a group who thinks they're morally lacking. Which would you choose, in their shoes?

I would choose neither, but I'm not in the group being sacrificed by the Democrats or gained by Trump.[/quote]

I would disagree.  Republican media like Fox and Breitbart spreads non-stop propaganda that the democrats are only in favor of government spending that favors the urban poor, which their audience is trained to interpret as poor blacks.  Further, the message is that the white middle class is financing this give away.  This audience has no interest in learning about what the policies of democrats actually are.

It is actually ingenious.  Foster racial warfare so that the working class whites don't realize that it is really the one percent, and even more so, the .01 percent, that benefit when Republicans are in power.  If the working and middle class were united, Republican policies would not fly.[/quote]

Yes, this, and that most people on welfare are white.  So when Republicans play this game - and they do it well - what white and working class Americans often assume is that only black/latinos/insert "other" category are the takers of welfare. This isn't true because there are as just as many poor white poeple as other races.  Ultimately, it shouldn't matter - of course. But this plays into the skewed narrative that it's just inner city black women on welfare when in fact that's not the case.[/quote]

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