Padawanbater2
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I don't think anyone should be censoredYou realize people on the right have tried to damp down racist speech by David Duke without much effect. Nobody is censoring them. Are you also saying that somehow we should censor this small segment of the extreme left?
Are you just voicing disapproval? Probably as ineffective as people on the right voicing disapproval of David Duke and Trump's rhetoric.
I disagree that this is the reason why the Rust Belt states went to Trump. This article covers a much larger issue than the hurt feelings of a few racists.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-rural-idUSKBN13625Q
Semi-retired Wisconsin pig farmer John Lader does not think much of Donald Trump as a messenger, but voted for what he described as the Republican president-elect's message of change and economic hope for America.
"The last few years, there hasn't been much optimism and hope among working people in rural areas in this country," said Lader, 65, who lives in the farmland outside the southern Wisconsin city of Janesville.
Around 65 miles (105 km) to the northeast in the state's biggest city of Milwaukee, Jose Boni, who cleans offices at a local university and rents out several homes, heard a different message: Trump's plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and vow to deport the estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally, most of whom are Hispanic.
"He doesn't care about our community or working people, he only cares about himself," said Boni, 57, an Ecuador-born U.S. citizen.
The different worlds of Lader and Boni help illustrate the rural-urban divide that was critical to the outcome of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.
Lader's opinion is pretty much exactly what Sanders said on one of the morning shows this week. Dem's lost the rust belt because of the economy. They've focused too much on identity politics and not enough on the real economic concerns of middle-class America. Buck would have you believe otherwise; working class whites and economic anxiety