SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)
08-03-2016
, 12:10 AM
08-03-2016
, 12:29 AM
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It is beyond rich for anyone to defend the evangelical poor, confederate, Fox-viewing, internet-having, staunch white Republican cohort on the grounds that they haven't had the opportunity to git learnin', or that liberals do not appreciate them, when:
1. They reliably vote for the party that wants their opportunities restricted, wants minimum wage to remain low, wants them to have to pay for private health care, wants taxes to remain low so that social programs designed to benefit specifically these people cannot be funded, wants to reduce spending on education for specifically these people, wants to celebrate the "real America" manifested by the Confederate South, wants to defeat net neutrality so that private business can control access to information on the internet, wants to maintain vast wealth inequality as a matter of first principles, and wants to protect the 'right' of corporate persons to evade taxation even though those same corporations refuse to hire this exact set of people and even though the economic 'benefits' of corporate tax avoidance harm these same people.
2. They have the internet.
3. They actively espouse retrograde social values taught to them by the same Republican Party that wants to demonize liberals for not appreciating this retrograde voting cohort.
4. They constitute the one voting cohort the Republican Party can rely on, which means they are coddled and reaffirmed by the Republican Party so that it can win elections while simultaneously disenfranchinsing them on purpose to maintain that one voting edge.
5. They remain white and thus comparatively privileged, especially in their usually-racist communities, and still fail to grasp opportunities.
6. Are PROUD members of the "work hard, get there" school of American thought. Their OWN ETHOS indicates that it IS their fault they're failures.
I'm sympathetic to the lack of economic opportunity presented to these people. That's a problem worth solving. But they are going to fight tooth and nail and rifle to prevent that from ever happening, and the Republican Party is going to encourage every scratch, bite and bullet because it literally cannot survive without white nationalist objective morons supporting it.
That voting cohort is the literal worst of America. They are morons. They do not help themselves. There's no reason to discuss this problem as if there's some innately non-moronic excuse for their innate need to sabotage themselves and the rest of the country.
1. They reliably vote for the party that wants their opportunities restricted, wants minimum wage to remain low, wants them to have to pay for private health care, wants taxes to remain low so that social programs designed to benefit specifically these people cannot be funded, wants to reduce spending on education for specifically these people, wants to celebrate the "real America" manifested by the Confederate South, wants to defeat net neutrality so that private business can control access to information on the internet, wants to maintain vast wealth inequality as a matter of first principles, and wants to protect the 'right' of corporate persons to evade taxation even though those same corporations refuse to hire this exact set of people and even though the economic 'benefits' of corporate tax avoidance harm these same people.
2. They have the internet.
3. They actively espouse retrograde social values taught to them by the same Republican Party that wants to demonize liberals for not appreciating this retrograde voting cohort.
4. They constitute the one voting cohort the Republican Party can rely on, which means they are coddled and reaffirmed by the Republican Party so that it can win elections while simultaneously disenfranchinsing them on purpose to maintain that one voting edge.
5. They remain white and thus comparatively privileged, especially in their usually-racist communities, and still fail to grasp opportunities.
6. Are PROUD members of the "work hard, get there" school of American thought. Their OWN ETHOS indicates that it IS their fault they're failures.
I'm sympathetic to the lack of economic opportunity presented to these people. That's a problem worth solving. But they are going to fight tooth and nail and rifle to prevent that from ever happening, and the Republican Party is going to encourage every scratch, bite and bullet because it literally cannot survive without white nationalist objective morons supporting it.
That voting cohort is the literal worst of America. They are morons. They do not help themselves. There's no reason to discuss this problem as if there's some innately non-moronic excuse for their innate need to sabotage themselves and the rest of the country.
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08-03-2016
, 10:16 AM
Just wanted to stop by and say how awesome this thread has been to read (and briefly participate in).
Props to all, especially Hoya and domer; really enjoyed your posts specifically.
Props to all, especially Hoya and domer; really enjoyed your posts specifically.
08-03-2016
, 10:34 AM
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, 10:39 AM