Posted: Feb 10, 2019 9:20 pm
Rachel Bronwyn wrote:felltoearth wrote:This was largely my issue with Seth Meyers video that spent considerable time shitting on Phil Robertson’s hillbilly style than the unbelievable crap coming out of his mouth. Repubs tend to shit on blacks and minorities to get votes and urban dems shit on white poor “deplorables.” Class and race are an issue in modern America and the two major parties benefit by pitting the lowest classes against each other.
That's an interesting perspective. I'd never thought of "deplorables" as a reference to poor people.
She used it in reference to “half of Trump’s” supporters. That’s a pretty big net when you don’t specify which half.