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Why so many white middle class and poor families are voting republicans knowing or unknowingly that
they are voting against their best interests.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice
you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll empty his pockets for you
--Lyndon B. Johnson
We need to reverse this trend to remove this type of hostage taking in the future.
How do we convince the white middle class and poor families that the democrats are not the problem?
melody
(12,365 posts)They prefer indoctrination.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)get this done as it's been pointed out, this level of thinking and action has been systemically ingrained
to the point it's second nature, a black president has not changed their attitude instead it has proliferate
their anger further. Until we figure this out before we can attempt to take our fight to the one percent as
it has been documented on numerous occasions that the one percent are master at this type of tactics.
melody
(12,365 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,053 posts)when European debtors and indentured servants came here and were often forced to work alongside slaves (and in some cases, were eventually made "over-seers" ... and the rest is history. Hundreds of years of a history of class warfare (divide and conquer) and cultural conditioning... Where (as Joe Madison says daily) that there is constant conditioning designed to make you believe that "'White is superior, Black is inferior', and the manifestation of that conditioning is that Blacks are undervalued, underestimated, and marginalized".
During better economic times, the effect is lessened but it never really goes away.
And edit to add that many of the rethugs that you see today WERE Democrats (originally known as "Dixicrats" at one time.