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Thursday, January 05, 2017

Why, Oh Why

This is a must read.

NY Times: Why Rural America Voted for Trump By ROBERT LEONARD
...Republicans knew that the gunman was a bad man, doing a bad thing. Democrats, he added, “would look for other causes — that the man was basically good, but that it was the guns, society or some other place where the blame lies and then they will want to control the guns, or something else — not the man.” Republicans, he said, don’t need to look anywhere else for the blame.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Well written and too the pt. Yes, they see people as bad or fallen from grace is how it was put to me. At conception and en-utero though they are still pure and without sin. It's only after their born they are damaged goods that need reforming.

Jim Sande said...

Sounds like a rather convenient 'clause'.