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Originally Posted by SECdomination
scbelle,
The difference (in this case) between us is this: I don't think that those who are bitter about their circumstances lean on tradition, religion, and that which they know. I believe that these things will always be important to certain people, no matter what.
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What's the average salary of most of your hometown's inhabitants?
Do the retired members of your community have pensions that they don't have to worry about?
You have no idea how hard some of these places have been hit. The last Johnstown Flood in 1977 is a great example. It happened right when the steel industry was starting to decline. My mom saved an old issue of the paper from that time and it's just so sad to look at now...all these ads from businesses saying "we will rebuild!!" and most of them didn't. Johnstown used to be a beautiful place, it's a ghost town now.
Obama was saying (and he's right) that people in some of these towns are so tired of hearing that they're going to get new jobs, economic opportunity, blah blah blah, that rather than believing there might actually someone out there who could change things, and maybe get their hearts broken, they'd rather say "Obama is anti-gun and I love my guns and so I'm not voting for the big jagoff even if everything else he says is pretty cool."
It's the equivalent of a girl who has gone through one too many bad breakups refusing to go out to bars or parties or be fixed up with any new man and sitting at home eating ice cream in her pajamas with 17 cats.
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