By 1968 you can’t say “n***”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing,

[whereisjustice]

[It's a matter of] how abstract you handle the race thing. In other words, you start out … Now y’all aren’t quoting me on this … you start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff.

And you’re getting so abstract now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites…. “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” …

http://americablog.com/2012/11/audio-of-infamous-lee-atwater-interview-its-a-matter-of-how-abstract-you-handle-the-race-thing.html

Today - it's all coded messages and bullshit doublespeak. It isn't just black versus white - it's rich versus non-rich.

"Free markets" - sending millions of jobs to slave labor in Mexico and Asia.

"School Reform" - cutting wages and benefits of teachers and selling schools to corporations.

"Secure our energy future" - fracking without regulating the pollution it creates.

"War on Terror" - letting NSA spy on our husbands, wives, children.

"Bank Reform" - tax deductible, low impact fines passed on to consumers.

"Entitlement Reform" - Cutting social security and raising the retirement age."

"3rd Way" - right wing hipsters who are wealthy, attractive and better dressed than the average tea bagger.

They just can't come right out and say it.

[napkinz]

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