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Lost In Alabama's avatar

Preach Mr. Rhein! I look at my Trump supporting family members and friends who claim they’re so much worse off than they were four years ago. It’s such a shocking statement to make, and not in the way they think. It’s shocking in that they must have actively had to work hard against all the drastic improvements and opportunities we’ve been surrounded with over the last four years to be worse off. But, it’s not shocking, in that I’ve watched many of them play the victim in so many situations over the years, which is the very essence of the Republican ideology.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

They actually have worked against the improvements. They're so fixated on retribution that they can think of nothing else. Sigh... it's so exhausting.

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Lost In Alabama's avatar

With them, it’s not even retribution, it’s the fear that if they overcome what they claim “Others” have done to them, then they lose their victim hood status and their justifications for remaining xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

That's a great perspective, I'm going to have to think on that one a little more, I think you're right.

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Lost In Alabama's avatar

My 79 year old aunt likes to tell me about how they had to move out of their Birmingham neighborhood in the early 60’s, because blacks were starting to buy houses there and it would lower their property values. They even held a rally to keep blacks out saying they would not keep up their properties. She’s the victim right? She’s not being racist, because it’s just a fact of life. What she fails to understand is that by all the whites panic selling their houses at a loss caused the lowering of the property values. They fulfilled their own worst fears, so they could turn around and say, “See, I told you so”. She still believes she was the victim 60 years later. I’ve heard this story at least a hundred times, because this is her justification for being racist against blacks. Believe me, she’s got stories for Mexicans, Jews, Muslims, and so on. She’s got a stronghold on the victim hood status. If she ever let go, she would have to take a very hard look in the mirror, and it would not be pretty.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

I've known some people like that. They get so mad when they start telling the story and you say, "You realize this story is just your personal declaration that you're a racist." Then they start crying and everybody blames you for ruining Christmas dinner with the family. :) Great memories. "I didn't ruin Christmas dinner, you all did by being racist!"

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Lost In Alabama's avatar

Oh, I’ve been there! Deep breathing is your friend

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Walter Rhein's avatar

I've found it makes the racist a lot angrier if you can accuse them of being racist while maintaining your calm. :)

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Lost In Alabama's avatar

The louder they get, the quieter I get. You’re right, it infuriates them. The truth is the truth at any decibel.

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Kate's avatar

The only way I’m worse off than I was 3.5-4 years ago is in the stress this new election cycle has brought.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

100% agree!

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Michael's avatar

Great post. I will add one more. These republican trumplicans don’t even like each other and treat each other disrespectfully. This is another reason why they lose and will continue to lose.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

That’s absolutely true.

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Aaron Waddell's avatar

Blame everyone but yourself - exactly!

Great post!

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Thanks Aaron!

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Tom Smith's avatar

Several people have noted over the past few months that no one mentions Rush Limbaugh anymore. The only things he contributed to the public discourse were anger and hate. Much the same as TFG, his entiree shtick was grievance. When he died, a bunch of wannabes slithered into the spot he vacated, and he himself completely dropped off the radar. They barely even mention him as a pioneer in hate radio,

All the rest of these angry yutzes are heading the same way. I don't believe any of them realize it. But they, like Rush, like Trump, will not contribute to society, except as horrible examples.

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Norm's avatar

Insightful as always, Walter. It looks like we made a couple of the same points in our posts this morning. I think that’s great. As many of us that can, should be hammering these points over and over and over. Whatever it takes to get it to sink in. Here’s a link to my post: https://open.substack.com/pub/thestormbynorm/p/lying-like-normal-people-breathe?r=1qaj9v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Thanks norm! Restacked!

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Gene Wood's avatar

Thank you for a great article .. love listening to you read … I can capture my thoughts simply and easily …. AMEN!

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Thank you Gene!

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

i’m worse off than four years ago, but that has nothing to do with biden/harris and everything to do with ron desantis and donald trump.

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Dannys's avatar

https://f24.my/Ah5x

The view from France.

Leave it to the french to tell it like it is AND show us how it works here.

This is called JOURNALISM.

Make sure you see the video.

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Jake's avatar

Walter identifies is a childless cat lady

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Jake identifies as a loser with 3 subscribers ;)

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Jake's avatar

😂 Walter fancy’s himself an author but is in fact a propagandist for the status quo. Don’t be like Walter, he’s a really sad boy.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Are you still talking Jake? Are your 3 subscribers still listening?

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A Better Today's avatar

I'm still restacking and reposting you all over the place. November 6th, I will be another paid subscriber. You know where my money's been going until then. Keep up the great work. I hope all my friends are becoming subscribers as well.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

I really appreciate that! Thank you!

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Dave Williams's avatar

If you'd rather be writing try informing and intriguing us. Move your political rants over to Facebook where it belongs.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Nobody asked you for your opinion Dave Williams.

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