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Old 11-28-2012, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Originally Posted by Donn2390 View Post
Your reply has noting to do with what I wrote. I look look at your educational background after reading your guttural English reply.. My guess is you were pizzedoff by getting slapped across the face with reality and were just striking out, no matter how foolish it makes you look...!
Of course it does. It's not my fault that you can't connect the dots. But as a peace offering, I'll throw you this bone: 10th grade is when you should have learned what a "communist" is, which you don't, which leads me to believe that you didn't "cotton to book learnin'"
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Old 11-28-2012, 11:00 AM
 
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Of course it does. It's not my fault that you can't connect the dots. But as a peace offering, I'll throw you this bone: 10th grade is when you should have learned what a "communist" is, which you don't, which leads me to believe that you didn't "cotton to book learnin'"
I learned what a Communist was when I was in the 5th grade.
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Old 11-28-2012, 11:02 AM
 
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Cause we won and they lost. Otherwise, they wouldn't care.
^^^

Now, somebody please explain to me WHY there is a perception that Liberals are the more "intelligent" faction.....
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Old 11-28-2012, 11:06 AM
 
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^^^

Now, somebody please explain to me WHY there is a perception that Liberals are the more "intelligent" faction.....
Explain this. Why is it that the states with some of the most educated populations voted blue? Why is it that some of the reddest states have some of the lowest levels of educational attainment from college onward? Correlation is not causation, but you might want to look at some of this.
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Old 11-28-2012, 11:27 AM
 
Location: USA
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What's ironic is what people who say this don't notice--i.e that blacks have regularly voted for white candidates at all levels of government since they first got the franchise. White voters, by contrast, almost never vote for black candidates at any level.
Party affiliation trumps race almost every time. White conservatives seem to have no problem voting for black man in Arizona of all places. He lost out to a Dem, Kyrsten Sinema, a women who came out as Bi-sexual after the race. (Who comes out as a Bi-sexual is beyond me). If she came out as Bi-sexual before the race Vernon probably would have won.
Kyrsten Sinema, Vernon Parker race: Sinema wins in Arizona's 9th Congressional District
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Old 11-28-2012, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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I learned what a Communist was when I was in the 5th grade.
Eek... then it looks like I might have given him too much credit...
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Old 11-28-2012, 11:59 AM
 
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Explain this. Why is it that the states with some of the most educated populations voted blue? Why is it that some of the reddest states have some of the lowest levels of educational attainment from college onward? Correlation is not causation, but you might want to look at some of this.
"Educated" becomes a VERY marginalized term when you soon discover that US colleges put out more jobs into the help sector and other useless majors...like art degrees...

You might want to "look into" the weight the term "educated" holds.....education does not = vocation.

It becomes doubly ironic when you consider that most kids going through college today are burying themselves in debt but get behind a think tank that wants to run inflation through the roof.....devaluing the very dollar that is going to pay for that education.
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Old 11-28-2012, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by steven_h
Exactly right. I doubt that blacks actually understand the truth of why they only vote Democrat. If removing God from the DNC and strengthening the chains of poverty wasn't enough to wake them up; there's little hope.

To ponder it for more than a minute is a waste of time.


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if that's the position republicans have, why are there threads created that discuss this topic all the time. I still have yet to get an answer on that.
I don't know if this is how Republicans see things, as I'm a Libertarian.

Why are there threads claiming that all Republicans are racists?
Why do most of the posters in CD replace common sense with ideologies?
If God made us, then who made God?

I can't tell you what motivates people to hold the ridiculous positions they do. I doubt any of them could, with any semblance of legitimacy.
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Old 11-28-2012, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by Ringo1
Cause we won and they lost. Otherwise, they wouldn't care.

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^^^

Now, somebody please explain to me WHY there is a perception that Liberals are the more "intelligent" faction.....
Because they are, just ask one.
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Old 11-28-2012, 12:36 PM
 
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I don't care. Nor do the democrats care, as the blacks always vote democratic, regardless of policy; it is just dumb.This practice makes the black vote completely irrelevant to both parties and renders the political power of the black community as effectively ZERO- they have no political leverage with EITHER PARTY.

I would offer that this reflex democratic vote is very damaging to any political leverage blacks may seek to gain and allows both parties to ignore them, with no consequences for either party.
Ok, so if we're irrelevant, why the 5 trillion threads and the incessant interest in what black folks are doing?

Must not be all that damn irrelevant.
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