I am sure that this news article has absolutely nothing to do with the special election on Dec 12th between Moore and Jones for Senate.
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"Cuz 'rednecks." The only group you're allowed to prosecute on TV, media, and public discourse.
But if liberals were running in and giving free aid, and helping lives, those people would start to like liberals.
I mean, when we help people in Ghana, do we check to make sure they don't have any conflicting political values? When we aid Syria, have we checked to make sure they're there aren't any nationalists and racists?
I'd love to hear an actual rebuttal, but I guess I'll have to settle for downvotes from people who can't. I guess bigotry is okay when it's people you hate.
I think there is a critical difference between Ghana and Alabama, and that is that Ghana does not have representatives in Congress making policy decisions affecting all of America.
Basically, yes. We expend an enormous amount of effort making sure aid gets to the "right" people, and we have a track record of rescinding it when those people change their opinions to ones we don't like.
Not to put to fine a point on it but the #1 criticism I hear from my GOP friends is that Liberals want too much of our tax money to go to welfare programs. Who do you think benefits from those welfare programs?
As a study of human nature it is fascinating. These people don't benefit from tax breaks, they don't even have enough money to be taxed. They do benefit from the social welfare programs. Yet they consistently vote for the party that gives out the tax breaks. It makes no sense.
One possible explanation is the fear that the liberals will give away the jobs to immigrants and oversees workers. I don't have a good answer for those people, I wish I did.
> "Cuz 'rednecks." The only group you're allowed to prosecute on TV, media, and public discourse.
Except for muslims, immigrants, citizens of countries we don't like, LGBT people... and liberals. Turn on Fox, it is 3 hours of liberal bashing. Clearly they are "allowed" to do that, no one is stopping them.
Seriously, I'm not even a liberal. I'm a Libertarian. But anyone can see the holes in your arguments.
I can tell you who many poor Republican voters believe benefit: "Lazy urban youth." Yes, this is a dog whistle. But I have heard the words "welfare queen" in person, and I knew exactly what they meant.
Most programs that deliver aid to poor people are administered by states use Federal money but have rules set at the State level and are implemented at the state/county level. That system is run that way because of “states rights” senators from the south and west.
The “red necks” are living in an illusion of choice. They live as best they can and are strongly independent. But in that pride, as a group they lose the recognition that they live in a corrupt electoral system where they cannot affect change and are divided & conquered from neighbors in similar circumstances because of the legacy of Jim Crow.