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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 09, 2012, 11:41:03 AM
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gregtownsand Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:08 AM
Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!
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Honestly, how many people do you meet out there who are really informed on issues? Most people can barely tell you who their own Senators and Congress members are. How many people out there know about the fillibuster? How many can even tell you how long congressional terms are?
I work with a lot of people from Canada and when you hear how much more informed they are on issues that concern them it is mind boggling.
When you consider that we have all this access to news and other media it is astounding that the average American can be so stupid. This board represents a very small minority of informed Americans. This is true of both Democrats and Republicans in general. If you don't believe me ask the people you work with some basic civics questions.
I think the Republican sleezeballs like Karl Rove are more aware of this than Democratic strategists. They seem to know how to exploit trashy issues like flag burning, and Willie Horton, better.
Every election the biggest obstacle for Democrats in my opinion is. The redneck nature of much of the electorate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002287134
RZM
21. Looking at HS graduation rates, this argument doesn't work very well
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The group with the lowest on-time HS graduation rate is African Americans, who are heavily concentrated in cities. In 2008, the graduation rate for black males was 47 percent. In NYC it was 25 percent. The national average is about 75 percent.
http://www.thegrio.com/specials/making-the-grade/grim-graduate-rates-for-black-males-highlight-racial-gap-in-schools.php
In overwhelmingly white and heavily rural West Virginia, the graduation rate is about 80 percent. That's higher than the national average.
http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=15930
West Virginia has a rate higher than the national average, it contains no large cities, and it has gone red every election since 2000.
African-Americans, on the other hand, are the least-educated group in the country and also by far the most Democratic, voting 95 percent for Obama in 2008 and about 88 percent for Kerry in 2004.
BTW the state with the lowest HS graduation rate is Nevada, which went blue last time and probably will again this year.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/8712517.html
Ouch. Obama voters are uneducated and stooooopid.
elleng
23. Assuming high school graduation means something,
which is not an assumption with which I agree generally (unfortunately.)
Ouch. Now you slam the liberal educators just to try and defend liberal voters?
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gregtownsand Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:08 AM
Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!
Last edited Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:21 AM USA/ET - Edit history (3)
Honestly, how many people do you meet out there who are really informed on issues?
>snip<
Translation.....how many people do you meet out there who think just like we do.
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"All I need to know in life I learned from a social worker. She showed me how to vote a straight democrat election ticket", Democrat voter.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002287134
Ouch. Obama voters are uneducated and stooooopid.
Ouch. Now you slam the liberal educators just to try and defend liberal voters?
My my my, what a wonderful find. ^5 for this one. This is too rich.
In overwhelmingly white and heavily rural West Virginia, the graduation rate is about 80 percent. That's higher than the national average
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gregtownsand Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:08 AM
Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!
Last edited Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:21 AM USA/ET - Edit history (3)
Honestly, how many people do you meet out there who are really informed on issues?
>snip<
It would appear greg has just found out about Pownership, being driven like a butt mounted wheelbarrow.
I have to row over to see how this one turns out. Dang. Say it ain't so.
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Zalatix
1. This is not far-fetched. Look at the way the vote is split.
If you take the white vote out, you see no Republicans winning, almost anywhere.
This is a simple fact, not a racist statement.
To which I say...
Rebel
1. This is not far-fetched. Look at the way the vote is split.
If you take the black vote out, you see no Democrats winning, almost anywhere.
This is a simple fact, not a racist statement.
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gregtownsand
Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!
Oh really.
When you consider that we have all this access to news and other media it is astounding that the average American can be so stupid. This board represents a very small minority of informed Americans.
Informed?? :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :mental:
Every election the biggest obstacle for Democrats in my opinion is. The redneck nature of much of the electorate.
Two sentence fragments in a row. FAIL!!
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Rebel
1. This is not far-fetched. Look at the way the vote is split.
If you take the black vote out, you see no Democrats winning, almost anywhere.
This is a simple fact, not a racist statement.
Exactly. The Democrats are the party of racists, both white and black.
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Here is the last post, so far.
former9thward (3,128 posts)
77. If the U.S. is "mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!" how did Obama get elected?
If we win the election then the electorate is informed but if we lose then it is 'rednecked'? Sorry you can't have it both ways I will agree the population is very uninformed about our government. The main fault of this, from my experience, are teachers who are just as uninformed as their students on the subject.
Might want to step away from that fan.
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Watching DU is like watching a circular firing squad. Everyone there is bound to get hit.
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Not an hour goes by that the DUchebag pots do not call the kettle black.
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The bestest post in the thread.
Response to gregtownsand (Original post)
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:10 AM
Star Member Bicoastal (12,344 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. Please, please, please, before you start calling other Americans stupid...
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...spell "obstacle" correctly.
:rofl:
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4 am. to 6 am at the country store.... Republican voters/workers are getting gas and coffee and heading to work. Obama/democrat voters are buying condoms/beer/wine/papers/blunts and finally heading home after a night of partying.
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4 am. to 6 am at the country store.... Republican voters/workers are getting gas and coffee and heading to work. Obama/democrat voters are buying condoms/beer/wine/papers/blunts and finally heading home after a night of partying.
Now ain't that the truth. ^5
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...spell "obstacle" correctly....obs-sty-cull....how'd I do?
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...spell "obstacle" correctly....obs-sty-cull....how'd I do?
Very good, Johnny, you get an "A" for participating so well!
Signed,
Liberal educators
Every-frickin'-where
:-)
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Very good, Johnny, you get an "A" for participating so well!
Signed,
Liberal educators
Every-frickin'-where
:-)
Just an A? I think I deserve an A+.
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Just an A? I think I deserve an A+.
Now, now, that would make the other children feel bad, none of them got an A+.
:tongue:
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Just an A? I think I deserve an A+.
We gave your + to a student who wasn't doing as well.
Cindie
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Watching DU is like watching a circular firing squad. Everyone there is bound to get hit.
And that's the way it should be!
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The + needs to be redistributed.
Mustn't bruise tender egos.
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I'd like to remind you numbskulls of this little tidbit: "How Obama Got Elected". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8&feature=player_embedded
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MineralMan
89. The originator of this thread has
been shown the door, and is no longer in the building. Last words on leaving were "Wha...."
Who's the good little fascist. WHO'S the good little fascist! {pats on the head, puppy-style}
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Why was the greg primitive, instead of the RZM primitive, kicked off Skins's island?
The greg primitive made points the primitives are always trying to make, nothing controversial about it. and it was the RZM primitive who pointed out people who voted for the Magic One are idiots.
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MineralMan
89. The originator of this thread has
been shown the door, and is no longer in the building. Last words on leaving were "Wha...."
I don't really understand this at all. Like frank said, I thought for sure RZM would get the boot.