Bill Clinton: Trump Base Standard Rednecks
Another Clinton insult is directed at millions of Americans concerned about their safety and the economy
by Edmund Kozak
Lifezette
Updated 12 Oct 2016 at 11:55 AM
The Clinton clan has once again demonstrated its utter contempt for average everyday Americans.
Hillary Clinton infamously said that half of Trumps supporters are a deplorable group of hateful bigots, and now her husband Bill Clinton has said that Trump supporters are standard rednecks.
Clinton made the comments during an appearance at Palm Beach State College in Belle Glade, Florida, on Tuesday. Look, man, the other guys base is what I grew up in, the former president told the crowd of Clinton supporters. You know, Im basically your standard redneck.
The word redneck has obvious negative connotations, especially when bandied about by liberals, and Clintons use of the term was a clear dog whistle to Democrats. Trumps base, Clinton is saying, is a bunch of ignorant, white racists.
As despicable as they may be, Clintons comments are by no means surprising. The Clinton camp has campaigned largely on dismissing and demonizing Trump and his supporters as bigots.
Unfortunately, while Clintons redneck remarks may be politically convenient in the short term, they are in the long term divisive and dangerous. Race relations are worse than theyve been in decades and society is so polarized politically that it often seems as if there are two entirely separate Americas trying to occupy the same country.
These wounds will continue to fester, and true bipartisanship will continue to be little more than a pipe dream, as long as liberals and progressives continue to portray all opposition to their ideological agenda as manifestations of ignorance and hate. So much for "stronger together."
#1: ConservingFreedom To: nolu chan (#0)
"The other guy's base is what I grew up in. You know, I'm basically your standard redneck. I was the first person that ever went to college in my family. I had a grandfather who I told you was a saint, and he and my grandmother fought all the time. And the only thing they agreed on was education and civil rights. He had a sixth grade education, she had a correspondent's degree in nursing. They knew we were all the same. So I deserve no credit for what I tried to do. I was just raised that way.
"But I know how they feel. And I'm telling you, the older you get the worse it is, if you look in the mirror every day and you think you can't do anything to change the future. And a lot of you have felt, we've all had days like that, haven't we? Days we can live with; months we can live with; years, a decade, that's a tough sell."
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-10-12 15:55:00 Reply Private Reply
#2: nolu chan To: ConservingFreedom (#1)
I would not expect you to see the hate in calling Trump's base rednecks.
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-12 16:50:06 Reply Private Reply
#3: Vicomte13 To: ConservingFreedom (#1)
Clinton sounds pretty sympathetic here, actually. "Redneck" is not an offensive term when used by people who like rednecks, or who are rednecks.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-10-12 17:26:34 Reply Private Reply
#4: ConservingFreedom To: Vicomte13 (#3)
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-10-12 17:30:26 Reply Private Reply
#5: nolu chan To: Vicomte13 (#3)
Only Bill Clinton was not paying a compliment to Trump supporters, even if he delivered his remark in his aw shucks, good ol' boy manner.
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-12 19:14:35 Reply Private Reply
#6: paraclete To: nolu chan (#5)
paraclete posted on 2016-10-12 20:47:34 Reply Private Reply
#7: nolu chan To: paraclete (#6)
Yeah, along with the Catholics of the bastardized religion, and the needy latinos.
I wonder if if a Catholic called Judaism a bastardized religion of the middle ages, Jews would call it a blood libel or some such. Or perhaps they could refer to needy Blacks.
And we have a lot of Wididumps to come.
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-12 22:22:06 Reply Private Reply
#8: paraclete To: nolu chan (#7)
what is your problem with catholics? I notice you didn't say islam is a bastardised religion
paraclete posted on 2016-10-13 02:18:59 Reply Private Reply
#9: nolu chan To: paraclete (#8)
You have to take this one up with Clintonites John Halpin and Jennifer Palmieri. Needy Latinos is John Podesta.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4364
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-13 02:36:23 Reply Private Reply
#10: paraclete To: nolu chan (#9)
Christianity is not and never has been a democracy. A democracy can have christian values but the church cannot rule the state and be a democracy, the same is true of Islam.
You must not confuse christians in politics with christianity. Christianity demands the high moral ground, this is why it is not in vogue in america, so what you have is a pale shadow, the cloak of respectability. If Murdoch and others want to return to the religion of their childhood, so what, some of us have been there and won't go back, but you cannot type cast an entire people on the evil actions of so called leaders. What you can do is insist on transpairity, whether that is catholics, masons, muslims or anyone else. You want to denounce catholics, start denouncing masons. Look there for systematic thought and very odd ideas
paraclete posted on 2016-10-13 08:54:29 Reply Private Reply
#11: Willie Green To: nolu chan (#0)
This dumbass can't even be an American if he doesn't understand why Klinton is often called "Bubba."
Willie Green posted on 2016-10-13 09:12:06 Reply Private Reply
#12: Vicomte13 To: (#10)
If Hillary wins, it will, again, be because of Republican economics.
Any way you slice it, the fatal Republican flaw is their stubborn, unworkable economic beliefs. Trickle down does not work, a substantial majority of the nation knows that, and with each passing year, that majority gets larger.
So, Republicans really have two choices: CHANGE their economic beliefs to face the REAL WORLD that voters face, or be irrelevant losers for the next thousand years. There is no universe in which those bad ideas win power again in America, EVER.
Trump has a chance precisely BECAUSE he has taken Republican economic beliefs and thrown them on the floor. Trump is a protectionist - he rejects free trade. Trump understands the people's need for universal health insurance. He gets it. Trump understands that immigration is about American working class jobs. Trump understands that the government is the employer of last resort, which is why he proposes spending DOUBLE what Hillary proposes on infrastructure - to create huge numbers of construction jobs AT THE SAME TIME that he is driving Mexicans out of the country. That will re-employ the white, and black, and Latino AMERICAN working class.
It's like FDR's WPA.
Trump gets it.
He gets it, and the mainline Republicans HATE him for it.
If Trump wins, the GOP will be changed into a protectionist party in which the state plays a prominent role in employment and social welfare. If Hillary wins, we will still have free trade, and the state will be more aggressively socialist. The American people will vote for those things. The American people will never again vote for Reagan's voodoo trickle-down, because it has manifestly failed and more and more and more people FEEL the failure of it in their own lives. The wealth DID get generated, and concentrated at the top, but it never trickled down, and it never will. The only way to MAKE it trickle down is redistributive taxation, which is precisely what is required.
No victorious party and candidate will ever run again who doesn't get that. We will not abolish Obamacare and give up on universal health insurance. We will double down on it and make it single payer first - which we should have done in the first place, truth be told.
In any case, Republicans are not there yet. Their party leaders have been talking about how the party has to be open to Hispanic illegals. Not true. Even if the party is open, the Hispanics won't VOTE for it anyway, because poor people need social welfare, not smiles.
The Republican ability to bamboozle the public on social and national security issues while concentrating the wealth at the top is over. They don't realize it yet. Trump does, but they hate him. Until the Republicans do, they will never hold power again, and what little they have now will ebb away.
Trickle-down economics, like monarchy, are ideas whose time has passed, and that will never, ever be resuscitated. Republicans must retire those old, failed ideas and adjust their economic thinking, or just be marginalized, ignored people, history's losers, the Tories of the economic revolution of the 20th Century, but this time with no Canada to flee too.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-10-13 09:16:39 Reply Private Reply
#13: nolu chan To: paraclete (#10)
I did not advocate this. Clintonites John Halpin and Jennifer Palmieri did. I was mocking their indiscretion gone public.
Here is John Podesta on needy Latinos and Bill Richardson being a dick. Bill Richardson being a dick makes him stand out among the liberal Dems as they are mostly pussies.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6777
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-13 11:19:52 Reply Private Reply
#14: nolu chan To: Willie Green (#11)
You can't even be an American if you do not understand that Clinton was speaking disparagingly of Trump supporters in liberal dog whistle speak.
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-13 11:27:07 Reply Private Reply
#15: Willie Green To: nolu chan (#14)
Just calling a spade a spade from what I can see...
Willie Green posted on 2016-10-13 13:33:15 Reply Private Reply
#16: nolu chan To: Willie Green (#15)
Your optometrist is calling...
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-13 13:36:44 Reply Private Reply
#17: nolu chan To: Willie Green (#15)
http://www.toddstarnes.com/column/bill-clinton-calls-trumps-base-your-standard-redneck
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-13 15:53:43 Reply Private Reply