The GOP has ALWAYS bound their followers together by finding a group to scapegoat:
Nixon’s Southern Strategy, “welfare queens,” Reagan’s speech about states rights in Philadelphia, Missouri, Willie Horton, African Americans, gays and lesbians, Jews, unwed mothers and now transgender people.
They gin up all this hatred and then pick your pocket with the other hand.
The biggest distribution of wealth in history has been in the past 40-something years as the lower and middle classes have had their pockets picked by the one percenters.
Of course not ... but the people who support Trump don't take the time to think about what he says. He's like God to them, all-knowing and all powerful.
That makes total sense. I’ve been wondering for a long time why an illegal immigrant would want to draw any attention to himself or herself. I’m also wondering how they would actually register to vote when you have to prove citizenship. I guess there may be a few who squeak through somehow, but I don’t know how.
Immigrants of all kinds are discriminated against. Skin, dress, language et al. take judgmental priority over enthusiasm, hard work, drive to learn etc.
Your last comment about “bad people” is yet another form of judgement without data.
I learned when I hitchhiked the West, many years ago, that we have it backwards. We think the world is bad and we know the few good people. The reality is almost all people are good people. There are a few troubled people, and we know largely nothing about the circumstances that led them there. Yet we judge away…
The GOP has ALWAYS bound their followers together by finding a group to scapegoat:
Nixon’s Southern Strategy, “welfare queens,” Reagan’s speech about states rights in Philadelphia, Missouri, Willie Horton, African Americans, gays and lesbians, Jews, unwed mothers and now transgender people.
They gin up all this hatred and then pick your pocket with the other hand.
The biggest distribution of wealth in history has been in the past 40-something years as the lower and middle classes have had their pockets picked by the one percenters.
Of course not ... but the people who support Trump don't take the time to think about what he says. He's like God to them, all-knowing and all powerful.
That makes total sense. I’ve been wondering for a long time why an illegal immigrant would want to draw any attention to himself or herself. I’m also wondering how they would actually register to vote when you have to prove citizenship. I guess there may be a few who squeak through somehow, but I don’t know how.
Immigrants of all kinds are discriminated against. Skin, dress, language et al. take judgmental priority over enthusiasm, hard work, drive to learn etc.
Your last comment about “bad people” is yet another form of judgement without data.
I learned when I hitchhiked the West, many years ago, that we have it backwards. We think the world is bad and we know the few good people. The reality is almost all people are good people. There are a few troubled people, and we know largely nothing about the circumstances that led them there. Yet we judge away…