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Taking a long road trip to look for Trump's America.

Posted: Jan 8, 2017

Allegheny River, talking to Hromadik and others like him. I have cowered under the covers long enough. Denial does no one any good. Donald Trump is going to put his left hand on the Bible in a couple weeks and repeat the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John Roberts. I do not live in Donald Trump’s America, but I aim to learn from those who do. I’ve rented a sturdy car. I’ve enlisted a wingman with serious driving chops. And I’ve pointed myself west to the land Trump found so fertile and tilled with such skill and in a rough-shod style all his own....;

Clueless in Liberal Land. Good Lord, you'd think he was going on - a safari. In this guy's smug world view,

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the world outside his progressive cocoon may as well be Mozambique.

We had taken several long road trips for hubbies work from mid-August to early October, covering a total of 20 U.S. states from the Rocky Mountains to the Northeast. If I told you that the Trump/Pence signs I saw in my travels outnumbered the Clinton/Kaine signs by a 200-to-1 ratio, I'm probably underestimating the Trump/Pence figure.

A lot of people - old and burned out

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believed the snake oil salesman because they wanted to. I don't blame them but the sad fact is that many, many of their jobs have been lost to automation not just foreign workers. If a high tech plant returned to some of these communities would the residents have the skills to be employed in them? One of the saddest things is that bringing jobs back to America, if he can do it, is just a small part of the job of being president and in the job of national security and foreign policy in which Trump has no experience, admits he does not read and has chosen some questionable advisors, he scares the living daylights out of us non-Trump believers.

Clueless is right. Maybe he should get points for venturing outside - of his comfort zone. These people

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are completely out of touch with the rest of America, so insular is the little bubble they live in. They look at regular Americans the way Jane Goodall looks at gorillas.

It is possible to live your entire life without ever encountering a conservative thought or idea, in places like New York or Santa Monica. They live, work with, watch, listen to, only people they agree with, and they think that what they see is America. But conservatives can’t avoid the Left. It permeates the whole culture, music, movies, TV, and education from K through graduate school. So we know them, but they don’t know us. You see it on any message board like this where liberals post THEIR interpretation of conservative views, which is like a caricature through a fun house mirror.

I would estimate approximately 80% of the lawns in my region held Trump/Pence signs - anon

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Of the few lawns featuring Hillary signs, at least two read, "Hillary for prison."

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