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Capitalizing on the prejudices in this case against Republicans - or even the uncoverted Hillary Democrats - who are just stand-ins for the "bourgoise" and fears of the willing and "useful idiots" like michael, Alpha, yourself and others is exactly how these cult leaders worked in the past and it's how Obama works today.
"As creepy and inappropriate as this singing is -- it’s not as bad as what Obama is actually proposing..." Ann Althouse 2008
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It is useful to remember that the Youth Movement agitating for Change, tired of the bourgoise comfort and respectability of their elders were pumping in the streets for ... fascism.
August 27th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The bourgoise family as social unit was to be made obsolete.
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But this kind of behavior was accepted as liberation from some kind of bourgoise-stuffy- uptightness!
Civility and Social Graces elena maria vidal 2009
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“De-regulation” coupled with your fiscal policies have served the interests of the monied class to the exclusion of the masses, including your bourgoise middle classes.
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Ché..still dead..and selling lots of t-shirts to bourgoise college kids...
A Green Che???? GayandRight 2007
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They are not the same for the gleaner in the field, for the girl who sews at fifteen sous a day, for the daughter of a petty shopkeeper, for the young bourgoise, for the child of a rich merchant, for the heiress of a noble family, for a daughter of the house of Este.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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Isn't it appalling how these petty bourgoise or however you spell it oiks can gain access to the school.
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These mandarins and court scribes, these lords and ladies of the beltway, took great umbrage at Bill Clinton's lack of deference to their completely phony bourgoise pretensions, and that simply was not done.
Hullabaloo 2006
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But 1960s-onward feminism has been promoted by bourgoise intellectuals out of touch with real, ordinary women's lives.
A Green Blogger gets my beef with Feminism Suzanne 2006
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