08-26-2020, 08:32 AM
(08-25-2020, 04:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-25-2020, 03:34 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: It has been valuable to white males for years. Racism and sexism is believing it should continue to be restricted to white males rather than distributed so the politicial jobs are distributed much as the population.What's a Democratic white male worth to the Democratic party these days? I suppose they're still worth something as long as they're able to shut up, agree for the good of the party and go along with whatever the minorities and the women on the Democratic side either say or seem to believe about them these days. I'm not very impressed with what I see as far as the Democratic white males these days.
...as much as anyone else, of course. One vote counts for as much as another except with the Electoral College.
Do you think that my life is better because of trigger-happy cops shooting black men? Do I benefit from substandard education anywhere? Do I fare better because rapacious plutocrats exploit economic fear to make life worse for workers?
More troublesome to white males is the weakening of unions and the strengthening of the power of corporate bureaucrats who get paid like sultans to treat workers badly. Of course the harm is to us all. Maybe we need to change the tax code to give an edge to small businesses that can't have bloated bureaucracies instead of to well-connected, vertically-integrated near-monopolies.
It is my moral choice to not foster racism and sexism from which I get nothing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.