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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenator Jeff Flake says that the Republican Party is only appealing to older white men and needs to
expand its base. Well just a note to you senator Flake, Republicans dont appeal to this older white guy at all.
It would be FAR more accurate to say that the Republican Party appeals to ignorant angry assholes.
There are many older white guys who are educated and involved who find your political ilk disgusting and repellent. Just because someone is white and reached retirement age doesnt mean they buy into the dogma of stupid which you represent.
Take a real look at who you are appealing to and I think you will find that that demographic is shrinking by the day. You are actually appealing to the turds of political sewerage. Conned by your own party into thinking that they will somehow rise up out of their desperation and See the light of the city on a hill if they just swallow the stench of hatred, decisiveness and greed that your party deals in.
Given the truth these people would leave you in droves. Given the facts they would turn on you enmass. Given the reality, they would burn you down like the cheap house of cards you are. As the saying goes , You can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Thats all. Glad hes gonna be gone.
JI7
(89,262 posts)man. where even without education they did not have to complete with females and minorities.
support for an ignorant old white bigot like trump was a backlash against advances made by minorites and women.
they think just being a white male means they should get advantages over an entire gender and people of other race even if those people are more educated or qualified .
in trump they see an ignorant bigoted buffoon just like them. HE should be president instead of someone like Obama. just because he is white.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Yep.
the world isn't the same and too many of them just cannot compete without special favors.....fucking snowflakes
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Just... No.
And the lowlifes who find the gop appealing have been presented with the truth, ad infintum and just won't accept it. They'd rather believe faux snooze.
charliea
(260 posts)I too am an Older White Guy, I have a fair number of OWG friends, none of them are in the Trump base. I'm unclear what the incoherent lying narcissistic idiot says that attracts any followers. That's the thing that perplexes and concerns me.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)elleng
(131,077 posts)so we'll have to live with the consequences for some time.
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)Doitnow
(1,103 posts)Before you vote for any candidate, search their record to see what they've done in the past for regular people, the middle class or the poor. See what kind of people support them. If they have no record, don't vote for them.
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)It is imperative to search the record.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Hopefully we will get McCain's too. And Heller's.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)And a life-long unapologetic liberal, a card carrying member of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. I don't think I have EVER voted for a Republican.
Skittles
(153,182 posts)I seriously do not give a fuck what Jeff Fucking Flake thinks
LeftInTX
(25,519 posts)I don't know who they've been appealing to since 2010, but they are taking over the country.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)supporting the Repubs.
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)The mills in our region have been working three shifts since last spring. The guys who have been hired back give all the credit to Trump. MAGA hats are very common.
For these union folks who have been layed off for a few years, life is good and better with overtime.
DFW
(54,436 posts)He stages publicity-minded speeches about how the Republican Party has narrowed its appeal and range of constituency, and then consistently votes on the Senate floor for bills that are detrimental to almost everyone in the country.
Mr. Flake, you are indeed a flake. Spare us your regrets. How you vote does not square with what you say.
KG
(28,752 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Trump is a much more dangerous creature than Flake. He represents the Stormfront wing of the GOP.
question everything
(47,521 posts)Except... a similar sentiments was presented during the 2015-2016 campaign. That the whites that voted from Romney would not be enough.
Perhaps not enough in numbers, but they were/are strategically located where the electoral votes count..