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Originally posted by reaverfan:]
Trump just passed illegally a payroll tax cut. He is pretending to be a hero for the working class. The stupid people don't know this is an end run at cutting social security and Medicare.
What pays for social security? The payroll taxes. What pays for Medicare? The payroll taxes. He even said if reelected he would make the cuts permanent. Wake up Trumpers. He's fucking with your futures.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Quote:How?
Originally posted by second:
How inequality is changing the Republican Party — and breaking American politics
Historically, conservative political parties face the problem Harvard political scientist Daniel Ziblatt calls “the conservative dilemma.” How does a party that represents the interests of moneyed elites win elections in a democracy?
By democrats 'forgetting' to represent the working class - as I indicated in my Matt Taibbi post. By democrats stopping being a real economic alternative for Americans, while republicans became a real social-issues one.
That's how.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
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“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ? Lyndon B. Johnson
This is how second.
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“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ? Lyndon B. Johnson
This is how second.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:How?
Originally posted by second:
How inequality is changing the Republican Party — and breaking American politics
Historically, conservative political parties face the problem Harvard political scientist Daniel Ziblatt calls “the conservative dilemma.” How does a party that represents the interests of moneyed elites win elections in a democracy?
By democrats 'forgetting' to represent the working class - as I indicated in my Matt Taibbi post. By democrats stopping being a real economic alternative for Americans, while republicans became a real social-issues one.
That's how.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
Bingo.
Democrats stopped being for the working class years ago. You've got two parties that are for the elites, with Democrats also being for global interests on top of it.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have decided to take up every possible social issue they thought would get them votes, not stopping once to consider the facts that they alienated their original core base (the working class), and most of the interests they've taken up do not and can not co-exist with each other.
Because none of these ideas can co-exist, nobody can say anything about anything anymore without fear of having their lives ruined. Democrats are now the "Religious Right" of the 21st Century.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Republicans have been hammering on what were then called "cultural wedge issues" since I was in college DECADES ago.
What wasn't really evident until the Obama honeymoon was over was how deeply democrats had abandoned the working class. (Which I was harping on back before 2016.)
But what pushed Trump over a full slate of republican candidate hopefuls and past Hillary was that he was willing to address things both democrats AND republicans were too beholden to mention:
Manufacturing. Low-wage illegal immigrants. China. NAFTA~CAFTA~SHAFTA. NATO. big Pharma. Military contracting.
Trump won the political culture war AND the political economic one AND the political policy one.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
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And despite the Legacy Media lies, he continues to do so.
It's no wonder the warmongering Bushite NeoCons are just as against Trump as the Democrats, the Legacy Media, Big Tech and the Multi-National corps are.
That's a who's who of literally everybody who sucks hardest in the world. I like the guy who pisses all of them off at the same time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Here is a cultural divide for you: While 81 percent of Democrats said they’d get vaccinated if a free, FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccine were available, only 47 percent of Republicans said the same. Independents are in the middle with 59 percent saying they would accept the vaccine.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Republicans have been hammering on what were then called "cultural wedge issues" since I was in college DECADES ago.
What wasn't really evident until the Obama honeymoon was over was how deeply democrats had abandoned the working class. (Which I was harping on back before 2016.)
But what pushed Trump over a full slate of republican candidate hopefuls and past Hillary was that he was willing to address things both democrats AND republicans were too beholden to mention:
Manufacturing. Low-wage illegal immigrants. China. NAFTA~CAFTA~SHAFTA. NATO. big Pharma. Military contracting.
Trump won the political culture war AND the political economic one AND the political policy one.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/one-in-three-americans-dec
line-free-covid-coronavirus-vaccine.html
You can find the same divide with displaying Confederate flags, statues to General Lee, BLM, abortion, evolution, climate change, etc.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We wouldn't even need a wall if we just cut off any and all forms of financial aid and the ability for anybody without a social security number to make money here.
Wouldn't need ICE either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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