An EXCELLENT analogy, ed. We don't want to admit it, but America, as a landmass, is chock full of tribes similar to how American Indians were dispersed but similar.
I don't care how you slice it, Obama is NOT of my tribe. I come from a primarily southern and eastern European background, and I believe in a Judeo-Christian ethic and morality. Obama is very clearly African in his tribal heritage and appears to adhere to an Islamic belief system. He subjugates women, wages war on people he perceives to be his enemy, and lies to get his way. We are of different tribes, period.
Obama is destroying America in every way she was great. Obama can burn in the fiery pits of Hell for what he's done. America will reap what she's sown as a result of electing this piece of shit, Marxist faggot clown.
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Obama subjugates women because he's a Muzlin, duh. Not that people of "Judeo-Christian ethnic and morality" don't subjugate women, wage war on people they perceive to be their enemy, or lie to get their way.
"He subjugates women, wages war on people he perceives to be his enemy, and lies to get his way."
Huh. I didn't know Obama was a republican.
But as soon as his wife goes do anything publicly, they'll rage at how it's not a politician's wife's place to make statements. And they'll call her hideous because she has thick arms. Maybe they just wish he'd oppress her, because a woman that's outspoken, confident, smart, and who looks both attractive and sturdy is too scary to them! She beats them in every field, the poor things!
He subjugates women, wages war on people he perceives to be his enemy, and lies to get his way.
I suppose the irony of these issues being the actual platform of the prior administration is completely lost on you.
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Wait, your background is southern and eastern European? Hell, you shouldn't even be here. Everyone knows America was founded by and for Northern Europeans. It's bad enough we went and let the Irish in. Southern Europeans = Italians = Mafia. Eastern Europeans = Commies. Go back where you came from! /sarcasm
He subjugates women, wages war on people he perceives to be his enemy, and lies to get his way.
There you have it, the Republican position in a nutshell.
I hate to sound like Headache and Rizzo here, but the United States is highly tribal, clannish, and antagonistic. People tend to take their 'roots' or especially an ideology to an unreasonable extreme and view outsiders as enemies even when they share most of the same opinion just because they are not fully within their camp.
Look at politics, look at the hundreds of subdivisions of Christianity, look at class tension, look at how New Yorkers treat each other based on whether they're from Brooklyn or the Bronx specifically. People are at each other's throats - literally - over slight differences all over the country.
Actual tribalism was historically less actively hostile towards outsiders and peace talks weren't seen as a sign of weakness or surrender.
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@#1547774 - You've got a point. It's become a thing in the US to be tribal or down with one's clique and to be hostile to "outsiders". It's even filtered over into the non-religious community. Now there are warring subdivisions growing within the atheist community (I find "atheist community" to be kind of an odd notion to begin with, but some Dawkins/Hitch/Harris fans seem intent on creating atheist/non-religious/secular alliances and organizations) based on disagreements over feminism, politics and how to handle disagreements with theists and the religious. Some atheists in the US insist on treating religious people as enemies, and some even insist on ostracizing agnostic atheists or atheists/agnostics who are not anti-theists as cowards (Cenk Uygur from TYT gets attacked often for calling himself "Agnostic" and not "Atheist") or not "true" atheists.
Similar thing happening in the GBLT community. In a lot of GBLT chatrooms, forums and organizations some people get their heads snapped off or labeled as appeasers if they explain homosexuality or gay issues to curious heterosexuals who ask questions. Ditto within political orientation communities towards people who don't vote straight party-line on all issues or people who have views that deviate from the ideological majority.
So, your grandparents came from Eastern Europe and most likely were either Catholic or Orthodox, but had to adapt to life in the Protestant/Baptist South. Well, no wonder you're so confused. In the Balkans they have something resembling tribes; in the US we have granfalloons.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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