The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(01-24-2020, 01:09 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-24-2020, 12:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trickle down economics appeals to you guys because you hate people of color coming into our country. You think blacks and browns are lazy and take your tax money, and that Democrats depend on them for their positions in government. But the brown kitty cats are out of the bag. There are lots more hispanics in our country now, and they are turning the southwest blue because they resent what Trump does to their fellow hispanics: treat honest people seeking opportunity in America like animals, starving them, putting them in cages and taking them off the street like nazis and putting them in jail. Once Arizona and then Texas turns blue, your game will be up for good.

I wouldn't say Classic pushes the racist element of conservative thought, but it does clearly exist.  It does form part of the small government - low taxes - low domestic services aspect of conservative policy that so much hurt the generations that came of age in the unraveling and 'crisis' times.  (The crisis is in quotes as the issues involved, the Iraq war and the Great Recession, did not cause a regeneracy.)  Some people hate, therefore they made America not so great to hurt those they hated.  They just hit a lot of people, not just minorities.  They chose a wide angle weapon.

Let's look out a few months or years, and see how this model of oppress-the-oppressed works in a recession.  One's coming at some point, so being prepared is wise.  Oddly, this can play both ways at once.  Some will blame others and double down on the hate.  Others will spin around and join the other team.  This second group got Trump elected, and how many and how motivated they are on the next swing will determine the 1T that follows this muddled 4T.