Ex-GOP Rep. Diane Black: The idea 'everyone is equal' is 'not what this country is founded on'

[DonViejo]

Published 19 hours ago on June 2, 2019 By David Edwards

Former Tennessee Rep. Diane Black (R) on Sunday put forward a false choice between embracing “socialism” and having a job that “brings character.”

During a panel discussion on CNN, Democratic strategist Andrew Gillum noted that presidential candidate John Hickenlooper (D) had been booed by his own party for repeating Republican “tropes” about socialism.

Black argued that socialism would have deprived her of life lessons that she learned through working.

“You know, younger people, when they hear, ‘Well, let’s have everybody totally even — everybody should get their part and you should take from this person and give to that person to make sure everyone is equal,'” Black said. “That is not what this country was founded upon.”

“Look, I come from a background where I had to work my way up — and good, hard work brings character,” she added. “So, this whole thing about sharing and making sure everybody has the same thing. It’s not what we were founded upon.”

According to financial disclosure forms, Black and her husband said in 2013 that they owned between $32 million and $146.9 million in assets.

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[rurallib]

1. my first guess without knowing anything about her is that she is white

[apnu]

11. You would be right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Black

[Docreed2003]

2. Says the lady with an unsightly lake mansion/monstrosity

And more money than she could ever hope to spend here in TN, but had the audacity to film a campaign commercial that portrayed her "changing oil" in front of a standard ranch house like she was an average Jane. Yeah, fuck her

[Dirty Socialist]

3. She is making a classic straw man argument

[lunasun]

4. well if she is going to be literal the country was not founded on her right to vote

Only white male landowners which she is not so she is fine with taking away her rights

And yes there arguments 100 years ago from people like her who did not want that changed
or someone like her as a rep

But I think what she really is saying is me and mine got ours fuck everyone else.wewantmore

Another person who thinks low paying jobs do not require hard work and don’t create character or contribute to society
Another ageist trashing young people as all lazy too because she knows the inequality she has participated in as a one percenter is having many younger people now favoring socialism

[Salviati]

5. Why does she hate America?

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..."

[ProudLib72]

10. But some men are more equal than others

[StarfishSaver]

6. She's absolutely right

That's NOT what this country was founded on.

But, fortunately, we changed it and it's what we stand for now.

Try to keep up, lady.

[NewJeffCT]

8. The idea was that "all men are created equal"

was from the Declaration of Independence.

Yes, it did not includes women and slaves at the time, but the idea was there and it's been expanded upon ever since.

[Dave Starsky]

12. It was also endorsed in a famous presidential speech...

By that hippie librul demoRAT Abraham Lincoln.

In fact, it's in the first sentence.

[BeckyDem]

7. In other words, I will continue to not pay my fair share of taxes because I love MY money.

She lies, cheats, and steals. Looters, just like Trump.

[Claritie Pixie]

9. Oh the twisted mental workings of a GOPer brain.

Mixing up our rights as citizens vs. economic success; i.e. what we are individually able to accomplish when everyone's RIGHTS are equal.