Fake Liberal Ed Schultz Pimps For Trump at CPAC
Like Lou Dobbs, Ed Schultz would say that he was a populist and claim that he was speaking for the American worker. However, like Lou Dobbs, Patrick Buchanan and Trump, Ed Schultz scapegoated immigration and trade. This is not just a right versus left issue and Ed Schultz is not the only progressive who has scapegoated immigrants and foreign trade for how American workers are falling behind. Immigrants and trade helped build America. America is a nation of immigrants.
Yet, sadly, even a so-called progressive like Ed Schultz can buy into the implicit racism in blaming the "other" when so much of why the working class has fallen behind is due to Republican attacks on education, the social safety net, and unions. Even unions have fallen for the scapegoating of immigrants and trade as is evidenced by the support Trump has drawn from many union workers. Of course, Russia happily cheered on the divisive politics of both Trump and Schultz because such racial animosity weakens America. America.
With Trump, we are clearly seeing how Trump uses racism to sell himself as a populist by attacking immigrants and trade while simultaneously rolling back worker protections and cutting taxes to the rich. Schultz did a disservice to American workers by not calling out Trump for this bait switch, but instead cheer leading for Trump and validating his attempts to blame immigrants and foreign trade for the problems faced by American workers.
https://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/27/opinion-fake-liberal-ed-schultz-pimps-trump-cpac.html
It is simply disgusting to listen to some journalists and news organizations report and comment on the Russian’s favorite American fascist, the one in the White House, as if he, his agenda, or administration are normal and not an existential threat to the people and the country. Being fair and balanced is one thing; portraying the Trump as anything other than a terrifying aberration is abominable. However, there is one “news” personality that has gone out of his way to praise the Trump and there is a good reason; he is being paid by Russia.
Once upon a time, Ed Schultz faked out no small number of progressives and liberals as a self-styled “prairie populist,” but for the second time in six years, he revealed his true conservative bona fides. He also exposed his true national allegiance when he signed on to get paid by Vladimir Putin to anchor a nightly show on Russia’ state-run network (RT) in America.
One always assumed Schultz was no progressive and no kind of liberal, in large part due to his exhortation to Democrats to sit out the 2010 midterm elections to “teach President Obama” a lesson about not fulfilling promises he clearly never made. No matter, Schultz had a hand in giving the teabaggers control of the House of Representatives they have never feared losing. Now Schultz is pimping for Donald Trump as a heroic figure fighting for the “little people,” and it is either because he was always a dyed-in-the-wool conservative or because he is employed by Russian president Vladimir Putin; it is probably a combination of the two.
Although he used to deride Trump’s Russian cohort Vlad as “Putie,” he has changed his tone; even a two-faced cretin like Ed Schultz recognizes it’s not a good idea to criticize his employer. As the Washington Post noted in December, since he has become a paid hack for Russia, and America’s voice as surrogate for Russian president Vlad Putin, “Schultz, who once said on MSNBC that Putin is crippling his country and has a nasty human rights record, now has a Russo-friendly, or perhaps American-skeptical, viewpoint on any number of issues.”
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...to even though most whites could not afford to own slaves. Even though slaves could undercut their labor, they aspired to own slaves and they saw themselves as superior to African Americans.
https://www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-slavery
Many of those white families who couldn’t afford slaves aspired to, as a symbol of wealth and prosperity. In addition, the essential ideology of white supremacy that served as a rationale for slavery, made it extremely difficult—and terrifying—for white Southerners to imagine life alongside a black majority population that was not in bondage. In this way, many non-slave-owning Confederates went to war to protect not only slavery, but to preserve the foundation of the only way of life they knew.
In the 1960s, poor white southerners continued to be motivated and manipulated by racism as noted by White Southerner President Lyndon Johnson.
Today, Trump and many Republicans are happily picking the pocket of American workers by scapegoating immigrants and foreign trade. Sadly, some progressives like Ed Schultz were happy to play along.
