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In reply to the discussion: Stripping away the distracting BS, this is what it all boils down to. (In my opinion.) [View all]redqueen
(115,104 posts)8. Yep. Convince people that being poor is shameful, and it means you're bad.
Convince them that being wealthy means you're smart, and a 'winner', and people will identify with them, and buy into rhetoric which serves their interests, and support policies that serves their interests.
Played like a fiddle.
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Stripping away the distracting BS, this is what it all boils down to. (In my opinion.) [View all]
Armstead
Jan 2014
OP
Yeah, you have no idea how many conservatives I've talked to that were barely getting by who
Rozlee
Jan 2014
#44
That's actually a pretty good label for what we have today -- Sociopathic Capitalism
Armstead
Jan 2014
#25
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Wounded Bear
Jan 2014
#31
Certainly, but also remember the biggest part of all was played in DC. With very few exceptions,
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Jan 2014
#61
I tell Right Wingers that Reagan believed in VOLUNTARY wealth redistribution....
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#40
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#79
"as a nation we either passively accept or actively support a set of values and policies that are
abelenkpe
Jan 2014
#41
No McKinley or Roosevelt on the horizon. All effective opposition has been swept away,
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#59
Humans are not rational animals so much as they are animals that rationalize n/t
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#63