Posted on 05/13/2016 1:19:42 PM PDT by C19fan
The white working class is a zombie that doesn’t know it’s dead.
Or if it’s not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they’re not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are.
At least that’s what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
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The author is ignorant of economics, which is typical of most Americans of all political stripes.
Socialists see Corporatism/Mercantilism and mistakenly call it Capitalism.
Capitalists see Corporatism/Mercantilism and mistakenly call it Socialism.
Most of us fail to recognize the Corporatism is neither Capitalism nor Socialism. Both Socialists and Capitalists lose the argument by being mistaken about Corporatism.
Corporatism wins. Clinton, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi are all Corporatists. On any given issue they seek to increase the size of Corporatims at the expense of the other 2 systems.
The author also fails to realize the most Sanders, and most Trump/Cruz/Carson voters did not vote for the agenda of their candidate. They voted against the Corporatists, the Cartel.
So, to to the liberal, hardships of minorities, even while whites are enduring hardships has to be blamed either on the exclusive racism of whites or capitalism itself.
Yet neither is true.
I’m white. I’m so evil. I’m responsible for everything wrong in the world. I think I’ll go kill myself.
"These same stoic progressives merrily torch conscientious objection when the Little Sisters of the Poor or Hobby Lobby or Conestoga Woods or various churches and denominations are begging the feds not to force them to fund abortion and contraception. They angrily boycott restaurant chains whose owners dare to assert that their Bible tells them not to redefine marriage. They harass, sue, fine, imprison, debase, dehumanize, demonize, and seek to destroy the Christian baker, florist, photographer, or caterer who simply asks to be left alone in peace and not be coerced by Caesar to service a same-sex "wedding" that they believe their God would not want them to support. They literally put in handcuffs a clerk like Kim Davis, and then mock her as a knuckle-dragging, Bible-thumping "fundamentalist" in skits on "Saturday Night Live." She is portrayed as a moron at best and a cretin at worst." - Paul Kengor, When the Left Liked Conscientious Objection - Crisis Magazine
I am no expert on economics, but I have seen clearly for years that what you say is true, and have tried to express it while I was teaching high school students. Capitalism is getting a bum rap.
Although i’m not socialist, it seems that socialism is getting a bum rap also.
After I posted, I realized I had left that off.
They are good with your money until it runs out and then they will go Venezuelan on you
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