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packman

(16,296 posts)

2. Dumb, yes

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun Jul 20, 2014, 09:58 AM

Jul 2014

but also frightened by just about everything. They are holding on to their way of life-meager and pathetic as it is- with their min. wage jobs or largesse from the gov. , with their fingertips. The abyss lies below if they let go or if someone stamps on those fingertips. And they perceive aliens, welfare abusers, and you and I stepping on those fingertips. The abyss lies below and they fear what is in it . Fox very cleverly tells them what they need to fear to exist. A conservative lies very much in the "here and now" and has nothing but trepidation in the future and what-could-be .

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