Posted on Mar 18, 2016
Racism is their best weapon: How the 1 percent divided the American people and conquered the...
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"What if I told you the single most important solution to economic inequality isn’t an economic policy, it’s tackling racism?
For the past 40 years, the right wing has peddled a winning strategy. It sells the economic agenda of the 1% to working- and middle-class white voters through a hidden formula:
Fear People of Color → Hate Government → Trust the Market and the 1%
And they’ve been selling us this idea even as it has hurt Americans of all races whose wages have plummeted and economic insecurity has soared.
Ronald Reagan was able to draw millions of former Democrats to the GOP with this race-baiting strategy. He gave us the fictional character of the “welfare queen” to prey on resentment against struggling African American families, but the real target was government and labor unions. Why? Because these are the only public institutions powerful enough to hold corporations and the wealthy accountable.
The result? No Democrat has won the majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson. Further, this has lead to ‘The Inequality Era’: Corporations writing their own rules, tax cuts for the wealthiest, slashed social spending, and unions on the ropes."
For the past 40 years, the right wing has peddled a winning strategy. It sells the economic agenda of the 1% to working- and middle-class white voters through a hidden formula:
Fear People of Color → Hate Government → Trust the Market and the 1%
And they’ve been selling us this idea even as it has hurt Americans of all races whose wages have plummeted and economic insecurity has soared.
Ronald Reagan was able to draw millions of former Democrats to the GOP with this race-baiting strategy. He gave us the fictional character of the “welfare queen” to prey on resentment against struggling African American families, but the real target was government and labor unions. Why? Because these are the only public institutions powerful enough to hold corporations and the wealthy accountable.
The result? No Democrat has won the majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson. Further, this has lead to ‘The Inequality Era’: Corporations writing their own rules, tax cuts for the wealthiest, slashed social spending, and unions on the ropes."
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The original article is from Demos, a website dedicated to "... reduce both political and economic inequality..." among other claims. They have an agenda, and their message is a divisive one. It pits rich against poor and one race against another. They never mention individual liberty.
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"They never mention individual liberty."
President Lincoln had a good definition of Liberty:
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names—liberty and tyranny.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails to-day among us human creatures, even in the North, and all professing to love liberty. Hence we behold the processes by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage, hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty. Recently, as it seems, the people of Maryland have been doing something to define liberty; and thanks to them that, in what they have done, the wolf’s dictionary, has been repudiated."
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/address-at-a-sanitary-fair/
To me, you sound like you like the wolf's definition.
Walt
President Lincoln had a good definition of Liberty:
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names—liberty and tyranny.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails to-day among us human creatures, even in the North, and all professing to love liberty. Hence we behold the processes by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage, hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty. Recently, as it seems, the people of Maryland have been doing something to define liberty; and thanks to them that, in what they have done, the wolf’s dictionary, has been repudiated."
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/address-at-a-sanitary-fair/
To me, you sound like you like the wolf's definition.
Walt
Address at a Sanitary Fair | Teaching American History
Ladies and Gentlemen—Calling to mind that we are in Baltimore, we can not fail to note that the world moves. Looking upon these many people, assembled here, to serve, as they best may, the soldiers of the Union, it occurs at once that three years ago, the same soldiers could not so much as pass through Baltimore. The change from then till now, is both great, and gratifying. Blessings on the brave men who have wrought the change, and the fair...
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So basically, socialism. Where they believe all people work for the good of all people.
Let's review socialism:
USSR. Only the white upper class of Russia were able to reap the benefits of all the other USSR countries especially those that ended in "Stan". Even then the Ukrainians who provided 70% of the USSR food were second class citizens and they were white.
How about China? Know any Tibetans. Ask them how socialism works for them?
Let's review socialism:
USSR. Only the white upper class of Russia were able to reap the benefits of all the other USSR countries especially those that ended in "Stan". Even then the Ukrainians who provided 70% of the USSR food were second class citizens and they were white.
How about China? Know any Tibetans. Ask them how socialism works for them?
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