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In reply to the discussion: Why Republicans Are Opposed to Supporting the Poor - An Open Secret [View all]Doodley
(9,088 posts)78. I think it is more to do with bigotry and hate. They think they are superior to the white working
-class trash, the poor and the blacks, who they think should still be slaves. They think they deserve better than their inferiors. Blacks, poor, muslims, gays, liberals, socialists, communists - they are all sub-humans to Republicans and they should be treated as sub-humans. Most Republicans won't admit it it, even to themselves, but this is what drives them to deny millions healthcare, to vote against the poor, to vote for the bigot-in-chief. This is why you can never have a rational political conversation with Republicans. Pure hatred.
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Why Republicans Are Opposed to Supporting the Poor - An Open Secret [View all]
MineralMan
Mar 2017
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That's true for the conservative anarcho capitalists but I think it goes deeper than that..
JHan
Mar 2017
#1
Thanks--I was wondering what Will could have meant by "socialism doesn't work",
BlancheSplanchnik
Mar 2017
#63
Years ago the state of Texas eliminated critical thinking classes in schools
Stargazer99
Mar 2017
#42
There would be plenty of huge costs in human misery if there were not mandates
Stargazer99
Mar 2017
#48
The Reich Wing's treatment of the poor is why the French invented the National Razor.
kairos12
Mar 2017
#16
In a similar way we have homeless people and people locked up in inhumane prisons.
hunter
Mar 2017
#22
Interesting. SC justices do now realize their very existence is in danger
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#112
Both my husband and I are managers and we certainly don't feel safe from his policies.
lark
Mar 2017
#43