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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Truth Is That It’s Republicans Who Have Been Waging War On Poor Whites
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/07/truth-republicans-waging-war-poor-whites.htmlA sure sign of fear mongering is putting words in other peoples mouths to incite suspicion and hatred against a certain group through the use of propaganda. It is nearly guaranteed that when fear mongering with racial propaganda comes to light, it is certain that Republicans are investing in racial divisiveness for political expediency.
The racial divisiveness was particularly evident in the Republican primary in 2012, and during the general election campaign of Willard Romney, when Republicans accused President Obama of stealing from white people to give to, as Rick Santorum said, blaaah people. Indeed, anyone with a pulse, or cognitive abilities of an amoeba, did not need a commentator to inform them Republicans were waging a war on minorities, because everywhere one turned a Republican was defaming people of color as moochers, a drain on the country, and guilty of stealing from white people.
Earlier in the week, Republican Representative Mo Brooks (Ala) decided to take a different approach to Republican divisive politics and accuse Democrats, particularly President Obama, of waging a war on white people because there is a midterm election in the offing and immigration is once again rearing its xenophobic head. Brooks said the immigration issue is part of the war on whites thats being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which theyre launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else.
Now, if Brooks had any proof Democrats were claiming that whites hate everybody else, he failed to present any evidence, but that is the primary feature of blatant mendacity according to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels; tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. Likely, many whites already believe the lie that President Obama is waging war on whites in the same manner they believe the lie he is waging a war on Christianity, democracy, the Constitution, and whichever target du jour Republicans can dream up.
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The Truth Is That It’s Republicans Who Have Been Waging War On Poor Whites (Original Post)
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Aug 2014
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jwirr
(39,215 posts)1. Exactly. They have used a steriotype of welfare users to cut these programs and they are hurting
now only minorities but the many white people who use welfare. I doubt that they care though.
RadicalGeek
(344 posts)2. Different Tune--same Song
More of the "Dog Whistle" politics that the Right has been relying on since the "Southern Strategy" and maybe well before that!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)3. Ably assisted by some so-called Dems.
Income inequality really ought to bevome more than a catch-phrase. We need to base some more serious policy around it.