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    The Liberal's Guide to Understanding The "Deplorable": One "Deplorable's" Attempt to Help the Liberal Understand What Happened
    The Liberal's Guide to Understanding The "Deplorable": One "Deplorable's" Attempt to Help the Liberal Understand What Happened
    The Liberal's Guide to Understanding The "Deplorable": One "Deplorable's" Attempt to Help the Liberal Understand What Happened
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    The Liberal's Guide to Understanding The "Deplorable": One "Deplorable's" Attempt to Help the Liberal Understand What Happened

    By Cynthia Defibaugh

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    From the heart of “fly-over country” in the Rust Belt of Ohio, a “deplorable” speaks to the issues that prompted many Republicans, Independents, and some Democrats to turn the 2016 election on its ear and place Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, redefining the term “deplorable.”
    From patriotism to Russian collusion, this is one “deplorable’s” candid view of the topics that rocked and rolled the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and swung the pendulum to the right in favor of Donald J. Trump.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 30, 2018
    ISBN9781543927405
    The Liberal's Guide to Understanding The "Deplorable": One "Deplorable's" Attempt to Help the Liberal Understand What Happened

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      The Liberal's Guide to Understanding The "Deplorable" - Cynthia Defibaugh

      THOUGHTS

      PREFACE

      A basket of deplorables was the phrase that I heard from Hillary Clinton: The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – you name it. What was disturbing to me was that I was included by her in that basket as I was voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. My issue with that statement was that I was none of those things and neither were my friends who were supporting Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America. I was a deplorable to the liberals.

      Being called a deplorable and feeling very misunderstood, I felt it only right that the liberal or non-deplorable should have a guide as to what a deplorable really thinks and feels about the issues brought up during the 2016 U.S. election and beyond. After all, if you are going to dislike someone (I don’t like to use the word hate here), you should get to know what you are disliking! What is it about us that disturbs you so? You could say that it is our politics, but that is still an ethereal intangible that is just as hard perhaps for some to articulate.

      This guide is to help the so-called liberal in their efforts to understand what exactly they do not like about the people who voted for Donald Trump and why we voted the way we did. Several subjects always seem to come up in conversation, and I have faithfully listed the most common ones as chapters in this book.

      Full disclosure. I am not a politician, professional or otherwise, but I did work in local government for thirty years. I am a lifelong Republican proudly casting my first vote at the age of 18 years for Ronald Reagan. I did attend a notable university. So, yes, I am college educated. I come from a rural part of Ohio, the heart of fly-over country and the Rust Belt, but it is a resort town. There are people from all walks of life that come to the area to visit, and they sometimes stay and put down roots.

      Also, this deplorable has been exposed to the real world as I have traveled all over the United States and overseas having been introduced to people of different religions and cultures all my life. I did get off the farm.

      This book will not contain the feelings of every deplorable, but it seems to be a reasonable consensus of the thoughts and feelings of those to whom I have spoken. We are vast and varied and do not necessarily agree with each other on every subject, but that is what makes our country so great. We don’t have to agree with each other all the time to make democracy work.

      This book is one deplorable’s lighthearted and opinionated look at a phrase that helped propel Donald J. Trump to President of these great United States of America. It was written in good faith and spirit.

      CHAPTER 1

      PATRIOTISM

      Patriotism, that feeling of national pride, was alive and well during the 2016 United States Presidential election, at least it was to the basket full of deplorables. During the campaign, deplorables were thrilled to wear red, white and blue and fly their flags high because candidate Trump was all about the United States of America. How refreshing! His focus was going to be the United States, and he made no bones about it. She had to be taken care of first and foremost, and the deplorable thought it was about time somebody did. Our government had sorely neglected her in the eyes of the deplorable.

      Our military appeared decimated by government budget cuts and the 2013 sequestration leaving them with relatively outdated ships and planes. We deplorables would hear about our great military having to scrounge for repair parts in plane junkyards. They were left vulnerable, and the deplorable was astounded that our government would let things go this far. We still believed in the words of President Teddy Roosevelt, Speak softly and carry a big stick; however, our big stick was looking more like a toothpick at this point. Teddy Roosevelt also said, The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. Donald Trump must have been listening to the people because his message hit a patriotic chord with the deplorable and he was very loud about it. As the winner of the 2016 Presidential election, he was undoubtedly the most successful politician.

      National patriotism had always been a binding tie for this country and our source of strength in time of crisis. It carried us through two world wars; however, during this election cycle, some wanted to turn patriotism into something ugly. Our patriotism was being called a mark of white supremacy. We were now being told by the liberal that our diversity was our strength and that we deplorables did not embrace diversity. So, let’s address this diversity issue.

      Deplorables are very proud of our ancestral homes and heritage. In the United States, there are Greek festivals, African Heritage festivals, Scottish Highland games, and many other gatherings to celebrate our various backgrounds. The United States is a veritable crazy quilt of nationalities and faiths. We deplorables even become amateur genealogists groping to find the myriad of colors and patterns within our own personal quilt. The popularity of DNA kits, giving us the ability to explore our genetic makeup, shows that we truly want to embrace diversity. Just so you know, the test results of a deplorable are not always as Eurocentric as you may presume. I can show, genetically, that at least this deplorable is ethnically diverse. So, yes, we embrace diversity.

      Like herbs and spices added to a stew, these national and ethnic traditions we bring with us and our diversity make America interesting and colorful, but diversity does not give us strength as a nation. The strength of the United States comes from the idea that people of such diversity can come together in unity with a single purpose in mind: to live under a set of written rules and regulations agreed upon by the masses by collective vote and be self-governed by representatives. Pride in this form of government and the freedoms it allows is the foundation of American patriotism. That is hardly a call to white supremacy. So, you may wish to rethink your idea of patriotism as many American patriots come in a wide variety of backgrounds and colors, white being only one of

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