A SECTION of the Yellow Brigade (YB), if not the whole group, launched quite early and too often, a word that they tried to shape 2016 into: bobotantes. These are voters who are dumb. Making further the argument that if the voters are supporting candidate JB, then they are dumb. Ergo, the supporters of candidate MR are not. A simple strategy that even got a German political foundation put together an animated video for distribution to the tribe. Unfortunately, the video lumped all previous political personalities, ex-presidents or family members of ex-presidents as the epitome of choices made by dumb voters. juxtapose that with the lay of the land and they effectively alienated more than a majority!
What a total waste of resources and what a stupid strategy that boomeranged on them because had the so called intelligent individuals did their thinking, they would have realized that they are driving a class wedge in their framing so early that shows their being peninsulares viz the Indios (oh they’ll probably add “los bobos” to Indios) or worst, pesantes. For some, caciques viz sacadas or dumaans would be the proper distinctions. The class wedge shows: classes D and E comprise 65% and 27% respectively of the country.
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