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Cosmocat

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11. THIS is the heart of it

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:39 PM

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What this person is saying it true, but it being true does not make it the reason people vote R in rural areas.

The core of it is what you explain.

They just are insecure, bored and isolated and succumb to pettiness and small mindedness.

They shit talk and mind the business of each other when they not around each other, and their primary rally point is the evil liberal boogyman.

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