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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe real reason for the Obama Hatred
Obama shattered every stereotypical myth that whites created and they see evidence that when all have a fair share, the best rise, not the entitled.
See where they had to go for their leader - the worst racist, narcissistic dumbass, shithound I have ever seen win a Presidential election in America - Groper Don the Con.
I heard a Democratic person call him a con earlier this afternoon. I said yes - you're catching on.
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)This is an old saw: when "minorities" achieve success the dominant / white racist culture is particularly incensed and tends to take it out on the perpetrator. I've seen it personally.
As a white person, I can't imagine how destructive and degrading that would be. As a woman, I have experienced some degree of this, myself.
*Also - you mean you heard a REPUBLICAN call him a con (I hope)?
malaise
(268,664 posts)but so do indigenous Americans - we all should have learned from how they were treated.
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)as well as Latino/as and others...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)People who imagine this is only about racism are missing most of the picture. That's only part of the fuel for this raging. If it were about skin color, why the virulent hatred of liberals? And, no, it goes far, far beyond liberal promotion of equality for POC.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)with the GOP going full out Racist. Notice how every Republican went dog Whistler against their opponents on every level. Trump was their mega phone and they were to parrots.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Truth will out
eleny
(46,166 posts)Where he said he didn't need their vote anymore. They voted for a man who has contempt for his white followers, too. He only needed them as tools to gain access where he's been denied his whole adult life. Now, they're superfluous.
So, yeah, the truth will out and it's quite an inconvenient one. They voted for someone even more insane than themselves. That's sinking in slowly. Evidence being the fearful coal miners fretting over their benefits. If Trump is allowed the flush the country down the toilet, they go with it.
malaise
(268,664 posts)hacking then he didn't need them
The worst of them voted for him - others may have reaped financial benefits. I wonder who's following the money.
eleny
(46,166 posts)He loved being the big cheese. Early on he had paid rally attendees (some say!). They did their job and brought the hoards of cockroaches out from their dark hidey holes. Then it was all gravy for him to sop up.
The money will be easy to follow, imo. Part of the overreach will be their doing their worst right out in the open. Arrogance.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)People have not come to grips with or they do not care what the heck is happening. Here on DU,most have it figured out. What to watch is how Chicago plays out in March and April. Expect the Con Job to declare Marshall Law for a couple of Precincts .
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)what it's going to be like on 1/21, after he is inaugurated.
If the hounds of hatred and racism are let loose new, already, I think it is going to be exponentially more terrifying then. ...
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Like Kenya, as an example.
Plus the Obama Family is functional, as contrasted to the Trump or Palin families. How dare Obama be the person that the GOP claims to love.
malaise
(268,664 posts)It is they who have long been dysfunctional racists
eleny
(46,166 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)In contrast to Guiliani, Trump, Gingrich, Vitter, Foley, Hastert, and GOP politicians too numerous to mention here.
eleny
(46,166 posts)I don't think they have anyone among them who compares to this First Family.
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)And I don't mean that the electorate won't understand the word (although that's likely) -- more that a large number of them will want to punish you for using it. Get caught saying 'oligarch' and you risk being tarred and feathered.
Hillary made the mistake of showing just how smart she is. The other candidate didn't have to worry so much about that.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,710 posts)Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)That's why republicans hate education. They have to keep the electorate dumbed down.
nil desperandum
(654 posts)there's an old and accurate saying about all of this....
When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression....
malaise
(268,664 posts)nil desperandum
(654 posts)it ain't much but I do what I can...
MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)And nobody will convince me otherwise.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)What they really mean when they say 'Make America Great Again' make it white again
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)bdamomma
(63,791 posts)fucking grow up. Horrible this man/child unleashed so much hate and he started the fucking birther movement.
malaise
(268,664 posts)and they know it too
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)ElkeH
(105 posts)then having an Untermensch voted into the highest office feels humiliating to them.
Here in Texas, I saw several yard signs during the 2008 election with messages such as "Say no to Obamunism" and "Send him back to Kenya!" People usually put up signs in support of their candidate; these people were putting up signs against President Obama and were not even trying to hide their racism.
Welcome to DU
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)He destabilized the planet with his illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. He violated international law with torture and on and on and on - and he was fugging dumb to boot.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)bdamomma
(63,791 posts)died under his watch. And his minions were crap too, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove........they came out from under their rocks too. Started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their judgement day is coming up too.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)Have some perspective. Trump may be a piece of shit, but he hasn't taken office yet. He doesn't (yet) have blood on his hands.
Being a terrible person isn't a crime, (even if he's the buggest dkuchebag to ever hold office) like starting illegal wars. Let us hope he doesn't wind up with blood on his hands like bush and president cheney.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Initech
(100,029 posts)And Obama fills both. Americans want a president you could "have a beer with". Hey Obama's a president you can have a beer with!
malaise
(268,664 posts)I mean I could have a baby with Obama - if only I wasn't so old and he wasn't so into his wife. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
sheshe2
(83,635 posts)Sigh
malaise
(268,664 posts)sheshe2
(83,635 posts)I know several of them are now posting at JPR.
DinahMoeHum
(21,771 posts)Anyone criticizing Obama who claims their criticism is not predicated on racism is a liar.
Period.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Fugg 'em!
spanone
(135,781 posts)PatrickforO
(14,557 posts)Troubled teen years. Drug use. Mixed race, identifies as African American. Then got his shit together, finished school, made it to Harvard, for God's sake, and edited the HJR. That's a big deal. Articulate. IQ in the 140-150 range. Deep familiarity with issues. Moral. Good husband. Good father.
Yep. Obama scared the HELL out of the wealthy class. No doubt there.
I didn't see eye to eye with him on the TPP or his continued use of drones, and I was really disappointed in the whole Dem party for not RAMMING single payer through in 2009 when they had the MANDATE.
But in all, Obama is a good guy and will go down in history as a GREAT president.
Unlike Trump. How the hell could that have happened? Geez.
malaise
(268,664 posts)lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)And particularly Fox fucking "news". From even before the 2004 elections they cranked up their thinly veiled racism incitement machine.
I believe enough collection of all the "wink-wink" anti-Obama confabulations put together in a video collage could easily convince even many of the entrenched right wingers that they've been systematically hoodwinked.
Fuck Fox fucking propaganda fucking so called fucking "news" and every fucking greedy horse they rode in on.
I believe they should be sued out of existence.
And that's all I have to say about that.
BTW, I'm not new. I'm nightscanner repackaged since the post-election hacking.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Well said
Skittles
(153,104 posts)Lochloosa
(16,057 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)Lochloosa
(16,057 posts)This goes much deeper. They just won't accept one.
I ran a business in Albany, GA. Just to give you an idea of the racism that exist there, the day I moved to that shit hole of a town, I was behind a pickup truck with a bumper sticker that said "If I knew then what I know now, I would have picked my own cotton". I just went WOW.
Anyway, after a few months there I promoted a black man to supervisor. Two of my employees said they would quit rather than work for him.
I told them to have a nice day and they could pick up their checks on the way out.
I did ask one of them why. He was a good guy, and I hated to see him leave. He said he would not be able to face his friends and more importantly his family if he stayed. It seems they will accept the fact he left a good job over working for a black man.
It's going to take a long time to break this mold.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Know that stupid Dubya billboard "Miss me yet?"
People are actually going to miss Obama. I think History will judge him very highly.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)"snake oil recipe" market.
coco22
(1,258 posts)Melanin.
moondust
(19,956 posts)I think it was mainly a dog whistle that actually meant "Repeal Obama". It allowed them to continue more or less openly stoking the hate and inciting their racist base. They were never going to accept a black man as the "boss." Their reaction to those 8 years was to mobilize and get tough and vote for the white supremacist guy who talked the biggest and never backed down. Unlike all those other Republican wimps, he'll show 'em who's the real boss by god!
Many of them probably aren't rabid racists but they may not follow or understand politics and just sort of follow along with their social group that may be led by authoritarian types who are rabid racists.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Watch and see
DarleenMB
(408 posts)But it's close.
I'm currently reading "White Trash -- the 400 year untold history of class in America." I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It will give you a solid perspective on the republicon party and why they hate the 98%.
And btw, lumping all of us white folk in together is neither accurate nor fair. I'm about as white as you can get (and have the DNA to show it) and I voted for Obama twice and absolutely adore him and his family. They truly, to my mind, represent the best of this country. They are US. Not ... THEM.