And yes, I have on multiple occasions linked to One Political Plaza to support the argument that there is a HUGE basket of deplorables. Being a hard working American is not a barrier to being a victim of the "isms". Anyone who looks at this site can see that.
People with disabilities, people who are retired, people who traipse out to the hinterlands to play sovereign citizen are all susceptible to bigotry and being a hater.
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Social Darwinism kind of twists everything into a rationale for selfishness. This includes the mob being able to dictate when we die. Somehow, the twisted logic prevents people from getting past their greed, prevents them from helping people out of poverty, because it's racist to help people. Who knew? Jesus of the parables certainly didn't. Now that the white middle class has lost its built in safety net because the vulture capitalists came along and removed it in the name of profits, they've stooped to blaming other, even less unfortunate than themselves. They wring their hands over the high suicide, opioid abuse and early death rates of newly impoverished white people whose jobs got shipped overseas. Hey, greedy corporate henchmen and stockholders chose to take advantage of lousy trade agreements and screw these folks out of their ability to make a decent living for their families. Take it like the gun analogy. Just like a gun doesn't up and shoot people on its own, neither does a corporation act in a vacuum. It takes a good politician and a good demagogue like Coulter or Limbaugh to persuade people to turn all that around and blame it all on the poorest of the poor. Hey, even prison teaches us that the lower the stakes, the sharper the knives, but the prisoners do not see it. Their world view is very tiny and they can only see and react to what is in front of them, not realizing, as in Shawshank Redemption or Cool Hand Luke, that they are being manipulated into enforcing the warden's agenda.
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