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241 points anigbrowl | 6 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 1.014s | source | bottom
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Herring ◴[18 Jul 25 23:53 UTC] No.44611149[source]▶
Step 1: Point at immigrants/trans/blacks/etc

Step 2: Cut taxes on the rich. <---------- You are here

It works every time. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson said: “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 somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

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yakz ◴[19 Jul 25 00:00 UTC] No.44611187[source]▶
Let’s see how the rural poor feel when their hospital closes, they can’t get medicaid, health insurance is wildly out of reach, they have no ability to borrow money thanks to insane medical debt that they can never repay, and their wages are garnished for student debt from a degree they never finished. How long until debt becomes a crime?

We’re gonna recreate serfdom in the USA.

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1. jimt1234 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:08 UTC] No.44611248[source]▶
The trend you described has been going on since Reagan, and the "rural poor" haven't budged. I have no expectation that attitudes will change in Rural America, not matter how bad things get.
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2. Herring ◴[19 Jul 25 00:16 UTC] No.44611296[source]▶
Way longer than that if you want to get technical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_conquer

In a nutshell that's why the South is so poor. They've been falling for this for generations.

3. sokoloff ◴[19 Jul 25 10:35 UTC] No.44614276[source]▶
It turns out when the other party runs on “we’re smarter and have better ideas than you and 25% of you are deplorable”, that people tend to increase their support for their current party rather than deciding “you know what? They’re right; we should switch to follow those coastal elites…”
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4. Herring ◴[19 Jul 25 12:30 UTC] No.44614963[source]▶
I’ve been all around the world. Only in America do people insist on doing evil things and still want to be praised for it.

It’s the stupid brand of evil too, like killing millions AND pissing away trillions of dollars in useless Middle East wars (god forbid you say anything against American foreign policy). Or ICE destroying lives AND hurting your own economy. It’s not like republican states are the richest! But the poorer they get the angrier and more dug-in they get.

5. myvoiceismypass ◴[19 Jul 25 15:03 UTC] No.44616049[source]▶
> “we’re smarter and have better ideas than you and 25% of you are deplorable”

Hypocrisy - Trump and the GOP regularly call _half_ the country a whole fucking barrage of terms (pedophiles, rapists, marxist socialist communist fascists, evil, ungodly, sick, etc) on a regular fucking basis. Gaslight. Obstruct. Project.

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6. sokoloff ◴[19 Jul 25 16:11 UTC] No.44616720{3}[source]▶
And for the exact same reasons, that is just as ineffective at convincing new people to join their ranks, but rather cements support for the DNC for existing DNC members.