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A Stunning Performance by Two Great Guitarists: Martin Miller & Andy Timmons, "Still Got the Blues" (Gary Moore Cover)

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)11/18/2018 4:26:42 pm PST

re: #264 Targetpractice

As much as I may love my relatives and have fond memories of the time of my life spent living in that “small town” my mother hails from, I’m not going to bullshit myself into believing that this something that can remain viable going forward. The only thing that has kept that town growing is the highway access and the Toyota plant operating in the next county over. If you remove both of those, that town disappears because there’s just nothing else to sustain it.

Right and i don’t delude myself about the white working class either. I know that men like my grandfather worked their asses off for their families but I don’t delude myself about the real reasons those groups have become solidly Republican and it’s really frustrating seeing a Senator from fucking Vermont lecture Democrats about it as if he has any clue what the white working class really thinks. Places like WV, rust belt PA, and others have gone Republican because they don’t like social liberalism and they’re willing to grudgingly accept right wing bs on the economy over social liberalism. Do I wish more working class people voted for Dems? Sure, I wish they could see that the GOP doesn’t give two shits about them or their interests but I wish more they could see that us being a proudly pro-choice, LGBT, immigrant party doesn’t hurt their bottom line at all.