Are you tired of the media worshiping Joe Sixpack?

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The media worships Joe Sixpack like he's some all-knowing person. I'm sorry, but I think Joe Sixpack is a moron.
Joe Sixpack votes against his economic interests and runs to the rethugs every time he's scared :scared:

The media plays up Joe Sixpack in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. When Obama loses there it's because he can't "connect" with Joe Sixpack. The media plays down Obama wins in states like Virginia and Georgia because blacks voted for him and not Joe Sixpack.

What a bunch of garbage.

That said, why can't Hillary "connect" with the inner city voters? Or black voters? Or upper income white voters? Or young people? Why does she lose among voters with advanced degrees?

The media also needs to be reminded that not everybody in America is "working class"; not everybody is white, and not everybody lives in a quaint, homogenous Midwestern small town.

It'always about blue-collar working class whites in PA and Ohio. There are other people in this country also.

Joe and Jill Sixpack are working hard. They don't follow politics because they don't have any time to do more than work and look after their kids. But they are taxed plenty and support the lifestyles of the well-to-do. They have sense but aren't privileged.

Scoff, if you will. Republicans have not scoffed at them but exploited them. The ordinary common people -black, white, asian, hispanic- are good people.

I hate snobs.

I'm all ears.

Why not listen to us latte-drinking, volvo-driving, well-educated blue staters FOR ONCE?!!!

I get sick of people with higher aspirations always being put down and made fun of. This country is strange in the way it puts down educated people and intellectuals etc like there is something wrong with that.

:beer:

He is looking for a third job.

Joe works hard and is the backbone of this country. Joe is not really that stupid, for the most part. Ask him about his job sometime. He knows how to repair a car or a tractor and knows how to help a friend. What he is, is gullible. He still believes in a free press. The President, or Congressperson MUST be telling the truth, otherwise the press would call them out. He believes in the goodness of America for much the same reason.

hfojvt I agree with you. People in general are good. but the upper class, the ruling classes, have made sure people get dumber and more desperate. They've made sure the lower classes are getting LESS EDUCATED. The ruling class has shipped out jobs. Once a man or woman could have one job and support a couple of kids in a middle class way. Jobs were measures of security. This is the way it was until the COUP in the early 60s.

I abhor mocking the lower classes.

He may ne part of it, but he certainly is not THE backbone of the country.

There are plenty of people who aren't part of the Joe Sixpack demographic who are just as important, in fact, essential, to this country's well-being. But for some reason, many people have come to elevate this one particular demographic above all others.

ronald reagan anyone?

1980-92: Reagan Democrats

1994: Angry White Men

1996: Soccer Moms

2000: Soccer Moms and Waitress Moms

2004: Security Moms and Values Voters

It's all code for "white people".

soccer moms or whatever other brain washing marketing term they're hot with.

The only people the corporate media worship are them selves, all the rest of that is for division purposes only, and most of the time it works.

at least on beer drinking, baseball, and almost IQ.

Then no, I don't discount or ignore him.

Because of the concerted effort to dumb-down our society, the neocons have created their best voting block.....idiots who can easily be convinced by the most ludicrous arguments about any subject. They are the quintessential dullards who are easily distracted by the "Look! Shiny thing!" tactics.

Their reasoning powers do not exist, so they are easily led & actually MUST be told what to do. The fact that they can get out of the rain, is actually astounding.

When I was a Marketing major in the late '70's, we were told that advertising was aimed at the 6th grade intellectual level (11-12 yr olds). Obviously not all products are aimed at that age level, so there you ago......Joe has a maturity & intellectual level of a 12 yr. old.

That was the '70's, I suspect the level now is even lower!

sought after one and the intellectual person is put down and made fun of.

spot on.

As someone who grew up in a working class family, was working class, I find it downright insulting that the pundits and politicians would expect all working class people to ignorant, gun-toting, flag-waving, beer swilling, oafs lacking the political acumen to decide for themselves on something other than the soundbites and fluff presented by politicians and pundits.

Tierra, you said it way better than me. On one side of my gene pool I come from the impoverished fallen aristocracy. the other side: native american/mexican. Maybe the latter side dragged down the other? LOL

But I hate class based politics. In fact I know that a political party cannot win if it does not at least pretend to 'support' the working class. That was Reagan's genius, sad to say.

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