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tenderfoot

(8,426 posts)
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:13 PM Nov 2017

Is the primary goal of the US right to make people's lives miserable or better?


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To make people's lives miserable
4 (80%)
To make people's lives better
0 (0%)
Other (explain)
1 (20%)
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Is the primary goal of the US right to make people's lives miserable or better? (Original Post) tenderfoot Nov 2017 OP
To take an active part in exploiting you for profit for as long as possible then to kill you. Afromania Nov 2017 #1
Which people? dawg Nov 2017 #2
Other rock Nov 2017 #3
POLITICS OF RESENTMENT. The GOP has cultivated it since the Nixon era. One of the features is TrollBuster9090 Nov 2017 #4
Misery loves company Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 #5

dawg

(10,624 posts)
2. Which people?
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:37 PM
Nov 2017

They are certainly aiming to make *some* people's lives better (at least in the short-term).

But I don't think I qualify.

rock

(13,218 posts)
3. Other
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:39 PM
Nov 2017

People's lives? They don't care about people's lives one way or the other. Miserable or better, it doesn't matter.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
4. POLITICS OF RESENTMENT. The GOP has cultivated it since the Nixon era. One of the features is
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:42 PM
Nov 2017

One of the features of Politics of Resentment is that you vote to SCREW the people you resent. Liberals, minorities etc.. If it screws YOU at the same time, that doesn't matter. 50 years of dogwhistle GOP politics has created a base that is essentially a bunch of rhetorical suicide bombers. They'll vote to make the lives of liberals worse, even if it means THEIR lives get worse.

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