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whoo boy, ya got love it when the argument comes down to 'people with real American values,' catchphrase for 'Americans who think just like me'
I'm an American and I assert that my values are both real and American.
What's more, my parents live in NC and they're both hardworking (now retired) liberals and I assert that their values are both real and American, too. They are comfortable money-wise, maybe even well-off by some standards, yet they live modestly, give freely, pay their taxes and obey the law. Ooh, lawdy, the horror.
It's really sickening, how nonchalantly conservatives dismiss what is still a very prevalent and meaningful sector of the American populace as 'not really American-like.' pfft. Do you ever stop to ask yourself who the hell you think you are when you and your friends go blathering on about 'real Americans'?
Yet somehow we are the elitists. Unbelievable.
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