Political Memes

Those people ate out of Bernie’s hand on his fox news town hall.

That's not the same as being convinced. In 2015 and 2016 I was all over Bernie's potential for convincing conservatives, because they seemed receptive - as it wore on, it became increasingly clear that it was the same passing agreement I was familiar with that would be entirely forgotten and reversed by the next hour. It's the same phenomenon as Trump repeating whatever the last person who spoke to him said.

“Capitalism just means that everything is owned by those elites that don’t f#$king live here.” Is one of my favorite lines. It goes well with calling the person in front of me “my neighbor because I can look you in the eye.”

That pisses people off in my experience, especially with many in the lower-middle class owning land that they don't live on in Appalachia. Besides, the elite WORKED for that land. It's basically the same as telling these poor folks that they don't deserve what THEY work for too! /s

It only pisses them off if they think the elites who own it are filthy liberals - as long as the elites virtual signal about rugged capitalism and Christianity, they get their boots licked even as they raise prices and squeeze an already impoverished community.