re: What is your hypothesis for the conservative decline in the suburbs.

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I agree with your post.

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What is your hypothesis for the conservative decline in the suburbs.

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It's a midterm election.

I think it’s number one. I’m a late 30s typical seeming minivan driving mom. (I say seeming because I’m a constitutionalist unlike the majority of them)

These women are distracted by Pinterest and instagram and Facebook and fake news like late night shows, the view, Hollywood BS, yoga, and magazines. They don’t live in reality. They’re not paying attention. They’re swindled by emotions and headlines. They don’t want to seem “mean”. They have no religion. Pinterest is their religion. They’re similar to the college aged Dems but without all the teenager like rage.

THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT GOES ON IN THE MINDS AND CONVERSATIONS OF THESE WOMEN:
Why can’t we let all the poor people in? They just want jobs. Love trumps hate.
Why can’t children decide their genders? It’s mean to tell them who they are just like it’s mean to tell them they lost their baseball game.
Yikes! Guns are scary! Why would anyone need a gun?”
It was just a tax cut for the wealthy! So mean!
The environment! Oh the environment! It’s so sad what the polar bears are going through. Waaaahhh
Oh and yes white men HAVE indeed caused all the problems in the world. Shame on those big bad white men. Though I’m married to a white man, he’s not like the white men in power. He’s open and loving. Love Trump’s hate!
Because Taylor Swift Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey told me so! They’re so smart!
So I’ve been studying Buddhism. I think reincarnation is real. When i die, i will come back as a bumble bee. What do you think you will come back as?
END OF MY EXPLANATION OF WHAT GOES ON IN THE HEADS OF THESE WOMEN

4 of my friends have not spoken to me since for over a year because i called one of them out for saying white men are what’s wrong with the world.

Well one of them texted me to “check in” this Spring.

Oh and yes 2 of them literally discussed reincarnation and one was convinced she’d be a bumble bee.

Note: She has her Masters. The other one does as well. These women are not uneducated, which makes it even more scary, AND they were born and raised in the South

I honestly think a lot of it is rhetoric, not substance.

Trump has stances a lot of those types of people agree with. He needs to sell the message of the policies. He can be strong while not being inflammatory. Promote the message. Don't be inflammatory. Show a bit of compassion and humility (and dare I say, civility). There's a fine line. I think too many GOP before him (McCain, Romney) were weak/passive. I think Trump's too far the other way.

He'll get the rural votes no matter what. I think he needs to do above to get suburban.

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It's a midterm election.

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Based on history, this reason has as much basis in fact as any. It may be this simple.

Is this an actual problem? CNN kept on about Texas’ 32nd being a suburban district. It includes some of the poorest, black, and Hispanic suburbs of DFW like Garland. The actual suburbs people want to live in, Collin county and the like, were republican wins. It’s fake news.

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I guess the media can sway 2-3% of the electorate through persistent gas lighting. In an evenly divided country that 2-3% goes a long way.

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Didn’t Orson Welles, convince half the country that aliens were invading over the radio..
Some people will believe anything..

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Idk what to tell you if you think bubba could pass a civics test

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It depends on whether Bubba is an engaged conservative. If Bubba pays as little attention as moat in the suburbs, then no.

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Inaction on Obamacare left a major void for Dems to exploit. Costs aren't slowing down and Republicans/Trump couldn't get a repeal and replace bill passed. Dems turned that into a fear that preexisting condition coverage would go away.

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McCain still fricking us from the grave.

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THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT GOES ON IN THE MINDS AND CONVERSATIONS OF THESE WOMEN:
Why can’t we let all the poor people in? They just want jobs. Love trumps hate.
Why can’t children decide their genders? It’s mean to tell them who they are just like it’s mean to tell them they lost their baseball game.
Yikes! Guns are scary! Why would anyone need a gun?”
It was just a tax cut for the wealthy! So mean!
The environment! Oh the environment! It’s so sad what the polar bears are going through. Waaaahhh
Oh and yes white men HAVE indeed caused all the problems in the world. Shame on those big bad white men. Though I’m married to a white man, he’s not like the white men in power. He’s open and loving. Love Trump’s hate!
Because Taylor Swift Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey told me so! They’re so smart!
So I’ve been studying Buddhism. I think reincarnation is real. When i die, i will come back as a bumble bee. What do you think you will come back as?
END OF MY EXPLANATION OF WHAT GOES ON IN THE HEADS OF THESE WOMEN

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So they are blithering idiots just as I expected?