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seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. oh fug. people are not their clothes. those people in the suits
Sat May 3, 2014, 12:18 PM
May 2014

paid the bills too and kept business running.

too much an all or nothing.

though really, i love my denim

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
3. right back atcha dude. you talk the obvious. i took it one step past the duh... obvious
Sat May 3, 2014, 12:51 PM
May 2014

of the saying.

and called bullshit. it is not more important to call one extreme as another.

 

JJChambers

(1,115 posts)
4. Why do you support the 1%?
Sat May 3, 2014, 12:57 PM
May 2014

The point of the sign isn't that people who wear denim built America and people who wear suits destroyed America. The point of the sign is that the 99% built America and the 1% raped America. The Woooosh is the sound of the point sailing right over your head.

Obviously people are more than their clothes.

HTH

MADem

(135,425 posts)
6. They should have said that, instead of making it about clothes. Some analogies are just lame.
Sat May 3, 2014, 01:21 PM
May 2014

This guy wore a suit and changed America:



These guys wore a lotta denim (they were vigorous vacationers) and fucked it up:



 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
8. and everyone immediately visualizes our loved ones that wore suits daily, ...
Sat May 3, 2014, 01:33 PM
May 2014

and visualized bush and reagan and the oil dudes....

the visual fails

 

JJChambers

(1,115 posts)
9. No it doesn't
Sat May 3, 2014, 01:47 PM
May 2014

You're already liberal and progressive. The message needs to resonate with the folks in red states; why do you think Reagan and Bush wore so much denim?

MADem

(135,425 posts)
10. And that message failed to resonate with me. It landed with a resounding THUD.
Sat May 3, 2014, 02:00 PM
May 2014

I provided an illustration that proved my point.

I didn't even go into the "working MAN" pantload; which is rather (cough) rich when one looks at the composition of the American work force and looks at the wage distribution by gender...!

Frankly, when I think of denim, I think of expensive designer jeans that are outside of my price range, I don't think of "the working man." Hell, "the working man" -- or woman -- is more likely to wear a boiler suit (archaic term showing my age--what I mean to say is COVERALLS) than "denim" on the job. "Denim" --at least US manufactured denim--hasn't been an affordable option for "the working man" (or woman) for nearly a half century now.

I have no objection to good analogies. That wasn't one of them.

Squinch

(50,955 posts)
11. "The point of the sign isn't that people who wear denim built America and people who wear suits
Sat May 3, 2014, 04:28 PM
May 2014

destroyed America."



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