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In reply to the discussion: Stripping away the distracting BS, this is what it all boils down to. (In my opinion.) [View all]Rozlee
(2,529 posts)44. Yeah, you have no idea how many conservatives I've talked to that were barely getting by who
claimed that they were "middle class." One woman told me that she was tired of her hard earned money going to deadbeats on welfare. She was barely existing on her salary as a waitress and collecting the earned income credit and she was collecting disability for one of her kids. I've heard variations of this litany from conservatives who work at Walmarts and other low-paying jobs who collect some form of government assistance or are barely surviving on poverty or subsistence wages but stubbornly claim that they are middle class. But, the right-wing has vilified poverty and the poor so much that they don't want to be perceived as being part of a group that's viewed so negatively by their peers.
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Stripping away the distracting BS, this is what it all boils down to. (In my opinion.) [View all]
Armstead
Jan 2014
OP
Yeah, you have no idea how many conservatives I've talked to that were barely getting by who
Rozlee
Jan 2014
#44
That's actually a pretty good label for what we have today -- Sociopathic Capitalism
Armstead
Jan 2014
#25
The whole concept of a 'liberal media' is just the RWers working the refs...
Wounded Bear
Jan 2014
#31
Certainly, but also remember the biggest part of all was played in DC. With very few exceptions,
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#61
I tell Right Wingers that Reagan believed in VOLUNTARY wealth redistribution....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jan 2014
#40
I like to tell people to picture the guy busting his ass getting his boss a bunch of new business...
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2015
#77
"Shark Tank" has got people all over America saying, "Why don't YOU do that???"...
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2015
#79
"as a nation we either passively accept or actively support a set of values and policies that are
abelenkpe
Jan 2014
#41
No McKinley or Roosevelt on the horizon. All effective opposition has been swept away,
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#59
Humans are not rational animals so much as they are animals that rationalize n/t
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#63