Just so someone stops those damn commies.

/sarc

And pillage and plunder your pristine women, children, land, birthright.

Nasty, filthy brown people.

Be afraid, very very afraid.

Two different group of 99%ers, both knowing they've been hurt badly by 25 years of awful governance.

But one group knows what the answer is, the other group need help in pulling their heads out of their asses. I expect that Sanders will coax many heads out.

Minority outreach.

Sanders has so much to offer EVERYONE especially those who are stuck on popular name recognition-only.

He has this way of making people feel they are part, a very important part of the whole. Message of inclusion under common goals of the 99%.

Keep going with this Bernie!

Thanks for the links.

Misplaced fears, unjustified terror, mile-high ignorance and a comic-book understanding of the world - all working together as slings and arrows of an outrageous world that just won't wake up and see the amazing super-awesomeness of the Yewwwnited States of 'Murca.

Shallow anger for shallow people.

Deep anger is something entirely different - anger at, say, a criminalized local court system with fines, tickets and jails all in a row for Driving While Black or Brown, Walking While Black or Brown, Making Eye Contact While Black or Brown.

Anger at, say, the ability of police departments to kill at will, and (for the most part) face a couple of grueling weeks of paid administrative leave as a result.

Anger at, say, a succession of shitty $9.50/hour jobs, which offer you the flexibility to stitch two or three together to almost make the rent, or anger at lousy school systems, endless standardized testing and diplomas servicable as toilet paper.

Anger at, say, politicians watching a world simultaneously going up in flames and melting down, and offering well-crafted word-fluff as "policy".

I'd say all of the above qualify as deep anger.

As for Trumpville . . . fuck 'em.

I think you are absolutely correct with shallow anger for shallow people.

Neither party wants to address the deep anger though.

People vote for the party that addresses the issues they find important, say what you will "conservatives" have a higher and more motivated turnout largely because the Republican party addresses the issues those voters have been trained to consider important. The Republicans throw their angry but shallow base large chunks of red meat frequently, they keep their base goosestepping to the polls.

On the other hand the Democratic party hasn't addressed the deep anger on economics and class issues any more than absolutely necessary since at least the Reagan administration and even then only in the most condescending manner possible. The Democrats feed their base thin gruel and go all Oliver Twisty on anyone who dares ask for more substantial fare.

Then they complain about low turnout, speak to people's issues and let your actions match your words and turnout becomes far less of a concern.

.....because they have little in the way of achievement to talk about in those areas.

It seems to me that conservative white GOPers are by far the angriest voting block. Many of these folks are quite racist to boot. That's why they love them some Donald Trump. They love his rants against Mexicans.

Sometimes I take a gander at websites like Free Republic and I just LOVE how miserable so many of them are.

These guys are positively furious about everything....from gay marriage to Obamacare. The Iran nuclear deal has them positively apoplectic. They're convinced armageddon is here.

Those dumbshits are a good contrary indicator.

If they are angry, then that's a good thing.

Conservatives as currently constituted are loud and have a huge megaphone in the MSM and talk radio, they have been extensively and expensively trained in how to be what they are because they are such useful idiots.

Jay Gould once remarked that he could hire half the working class to kill the other half, Gould was an optimist.

.... if these "people" would get off their fucking asses and learn what is actually going on they might figure out who to be mad at.

I was going to say "drunk angry" or "barstool bravado" anger, but your term is more accurate.

I've known too many of these types over the years ( decades ) and they've all shown how they're peripherally informed at best, and consistently bark up the wrong tree as to the source of their woes.

They're full of passionate emotion and righteous indignation...and they don't know shit. But they vote.

"...Misplaced fears, unjustified terror, mile-high ignorance and a comic-book understanding of the world ..."

That is a bloody brilliant summation of a Repuke mindset.

only issue. To anyone with a brain, it's obvious that
Donald Dumpf does not have the gravitas and intelligence
to handle political office - especially the White House.

Better headline.

Yes, the world is changing, but they are not. All the right bent people who call themselves leaders, their populist groups, and religion, their favorite media, have all conspired to hold conservatives back and prevent generations of Americans from maturing and reaching their full potential.

Now their all stuck in limbo, trapped in a timewarp with no face-saving way out of the morass they've created. The Republicans gave them fear, terror, hate and bigotry, and now they've suddenly discovered that the world rejects everything they've been lead to believe is vital to their existence. To grow, to change, is just a bridge too far and would mean they would have to set aside everything they know and adapt to fit the modern world.

they're mad at everyone except the people who are actually ruining their lives: the 1%. The goddam dummies never learn a thing.

It's a good sign those bigoted freaks are angry.

And she's on the side of the winners.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]

The magnificent Donald Trump has soared, bald-eagle-like, to the top of Republican presidential primary polls. He’s now in second place, behind only Jeb Bush, with what The Donald might call “the highest 13 percent ever recorded in human history” in polls conducted since he announced his bid for the presidency last month. So how seriously should we take the Trump “surge”?

The take-Trump-seriously logic goes something like this: There’s a lot of anger in the far right of the Republican Party, and The Donald is successfully tapping into it. He’s articulating positions that appeal to the far right on immigration, education and President Obama’s place of birth. The magnificent Trump, himself, has acknowledged that the tea party “loves me.” (Then again, what group does Trump believe doesn’t love him — besides the establishment?)

But the polling points to another, less sexy story: First, Republican voters don’t rate Trump as all that conservative, and second, he’s actually polling about equally well among all sections of the GOP. In Trump speak, this means he is loved universally; in reality, the broad, shallow nature of Trump’s support suggests it’s due mostly to near-universal name recognition, thanks in part to being in the news more often than the news anchors.

....

538

I know an old white guy who has benefited from every advantage, lives in luxury in his late 70s, and is furious with "The Others" -- especially Latinos. He is getting union benefits and he worships Reagan the union buster. I want to tell him to fuck off but he is weaseling his way into the family through a relative.