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The real true and brutal reason Republicans hate the ACA is that they hate Obama more than anything else on the planet. The other reason is that they are in a crazy rage and believe he passed it ONLY for the individuals in my OP header. And I get the sense in private they use the real unspoken words for these minorities.
To the any Republican any excuse for their views really is being too kind. Fundamentally ALL Republicans are deeply and hatefully racist and bigoted to the core. They are creatures of racism, bigotry and misogyny. Anyone else has nothing in common with someone who says they are a Republican today. So cooperation, negotiation and bipartisanship are out of the question. Sure I am using a broad brush because it is fact and it is the real truth.
Anytime I am around someone who is a Republican they exude a sense of superiority of white privilege. I do not recall any time for years that I have not heard almost nothing but racial code from a Republican personally no matter how they frame things.
I interviewed job applicants for 24 years at DOL. And we learned ways to question and interview people to get to the bottom of their thinking. If you do a careful forensic interview or ask forensic type questions in the right way you can get down to the core of their biases.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I was in college right in the middle of the Civil Rights turmoil. It was really more vicioius than you can imagine. I am 73 now but still remember it will. As far as I am concerned racist and racial hatred is deeper today now than it was even then. Sure we don't have signs "colored only", but we have racism far more insidious.
We actually do have our own township like ghettos like South Africa still does even today. Look at Flint, Ferguson, East St. Louis, and Five Points (Denver) just to name a few. If you look at city maps closely there are clear dividing lines.
I like Palm Springs and was there recently. It is virtually all white. And it is predominantly gated communities. All over the country there are gated communities separating poorer and black and brown communities. Voting patterns even reveal these separations.
Phoenix61
(17,013 posts)The alcoholic who has lost everything knows he's an alcoholic. The one who passes out drunk every night and binges all weekend will tell you he's not an alcoholic because he has a job and pays his bills. It's the people who say things like "I'm not a rascist. I like Denzel Washington." and believe that that proves something. You will never convince them that that proves nothing.