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In reply to the discussion: An open letter to folks like myself who cannot in good conscience vote for Obama [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)The Republicans are not experts. Their base is BIGOTS.
That's why their routine works.
The demographics of the country is AGAINST them. It was always going to be.
So what if their base of bigots make a big deal out of it.
Once the benefits of a plan take effect nobody will cop to all their phony outrage.
You wanna know the reason WHY the uninformed don't have an ear to Progressive policies?
It's because the Democrats don't know how to control the MESSAGE.
How did we let Republicans redefine Social Security & Medicare as 'entitlements'?
Nobody challenged them on that phony phrase???
You let those fools define the terms & then play within their definition.
Anything Obama does is evil evil to these bigots simply because he's Black.
You really need to take this reality into consideration.
They see Obama RIGHTFULLY as the end of their sway on politics.
He IS.
Nothing scared these bigots more than the 1st Black President.
Not just the 1st Black President but a Black President who's not a Tom like Alan Keyes or Herman Cain, a Black President who worked within The Struggle when he went to those poverty-stricken Chicago streets.
He's not just Black, he's politically Black.
That's what The Party of No is REALLY all about. That's why he couldn't get his bipartisanship crap accomplished.
If Obama succeeds, that's the end of the Southern Strategy.
That's the end of dog whistles. That's the end of the euphemisms of bigotry that hide behind the catchphrase Conservative.
If Obama not only succeeds but has a historic Presidency like FDR, it's the end of the Republican Party altogether.
No, stevenleser, the Republicans are not experts. Never were. They just had a sizeable group of bigoted fools willing to make themselves pawns for greedy rich man's games.
The Southern Strategy is at the root of every regressive stupid ignorant policy that has passed within the last 48 years.
Why do you think the NRA has strong roots in the South & Southwest (which came from the South)?
What's REALLY behind this border crap with the Mexicans? Isn't Canada another wide open border?
How did welfare become such a dirty word? Isn't that word in the Constitution "provide for the general welfare"?
How do you think the Southern Baptists not have influence in that Moral Majority scheme that keeps all this talk about abortion (pro-life), gay marriage (one woman, one man), etc. in the news?
Everything that comes under the Republican platform is about "Gotta get them N*ggers/J*ps/W**backs/Muzzies/etc." or "Gotta keep them N*ggers/J*ps/W**backs/Muzzies/etc. from getting XYZ"
It's either Attack the 'Slur' or Prevent the 'Slur' from getting whatever.
Xenophobic monkey-brained BS. That's all it ever was.
Once the money guys (the core of the Republican Party) get their base riled up with this nonsense they seek to roll back a little more of the New Deal's progressive legacy. FDR taxed those guys at a maximum of 94%. Reagan came in fueled by the Southern Strategy reduced this to 25% by the end of his time in office.
The old money guys HATED FDR for selling his own rich dudes down the river by forcing them to invest in the infrastructure in the 1930s & 1940s.
The grudge is as fresh as ever & they use the bigots for the numbers to get policies favorable to them passed.
They throw a bone to the bigots from time to time like this Arizona Mexican ID thing.
The country isn't as accepting of progressive ideas?
My ASS they ain't.
Look at what happened when Obama got the world's (known) richest man up there saying that the rich are not taxed ENOUGH.
Look at what happened when Obama said tax cuts for everybody UNDER $250,000 a year.
Who argues with that? The polls show people overwhelmingly in favor of that.
Here's some messaging for you.
The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. I-95 & all that jazz. Without heavy investment in the infrastructure from those hefty tax rates on the rich, that Interstate could never EXIST. And without the Interstate, commerce & job opportunities in this country would have never developed the way they did. Put together by a Republican who didn't DARE to challenge FDR's tax codes.
Another one.
"Taxpayer".
This dumb line that supposed to separate "the hard worker" from "the lazy welfare bum".
EVERYBODY is a taxpayer. That homeless man who collected enough money to buy a pack of crackers from the store pays sales tax. Poor workers pay out payroll tax through F.I.C.A. The homeless man receives an unofficial tax called the Life Tax through those harsh days & nights living on the streets.
What "taxpayer" REALLY is is "bigot". Because all this talk about 'how I pay so many taxes while this welfare queen collects benefits' is all about the Black & Brown people they don't like their tax money supportingBlacks & Hispanics. The REAL welfare queens are the rich cats. These "taxpayers" worrying about somebody getting a few hundred dollars a month never factor in the corporate welfare queen who gets hundreds of millions.
No, BIGOTS aren't in favor of Progressive ideas & their numbers are eroding.
They're Regressive by definition. The time is right to flush them out of the national dialogue.
THEN you will see just how favorable the people are to Progressive policies.
Remember, the rich guys own the mass media outlets too.
The brainwashing is there but it's undo-able. No big whoop.
Won't get there if you're scared though.
John Lucas