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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs 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 | |
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To make people's lives better | |
0 (0%) |
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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
POLITICS OF RESENTMENT. The GOP has cultivated it since the Nixon era. One of the features is
TrollBuster9090
Nov 2017
#4
Afromania
(2,768 posts)1. To take an active part in exploiting you for profit for as long as possible then to kill you.
dawg
(10,624 posts)2. Which people?
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
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
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.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,957 posts)5. Misery loves company
Their life sucks so they want others to suffer.