The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(01-27-2020, 11:08 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-27-2020, 09:22 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The problem is, Republican voters (such as yourself) are opposed to taxes because some of it (very little actually) goes for welfare to poor people, which are more often non-white. Thus these ethnic groups and races are scapegoats for Republicans' opposition to paying taxes, and their support for trickle-down economics. "I don't want my tax money going to these lazy people who don't work" is the leading slogan and appeal of the Republican Party, especially in the rural counties. And racism is part of the motivation because of who (they think) gets that money, and whom the Republicans don't want to spend their tax money on. And immigrants are also among those which Republicans don't want to support, but to restrict. Anti-immigration policy and politics in the USA has always been racist.

If we stop seeing these slogans and attitudes, then we will stop saying that racism is part of Republican Party policy.

Of course, if things like astrology are not included in a view of "all the perspectives," that view is not complete. It is certainly better justified than trickle-down economics and the racist dog-whistle it sounds. But, like everything else, it helps to actually understand other perspectives than your own. That doesn't happen too often.

The majority (the largest percentage) of the poor are actually white people these days. The majority in liberal run/liberal controlled areas are more likely minorities of some sort these days. The problem is, you don't seem know that's a fact and continue to use minorities as an excuse for our discontent with liberals like you. As far as I'm concerned, the hood can have you people and do whatever they want with you people. Dude, you'll never stop seeing slogans and attitudes that can be used to promote racism because your lively hood and the political power of liberal elites relies on it these days. Yep, that's what icky people like you do and skin tone doesn't matter when it comes to recruiting more icky people like you.

Conservative and Republican people in rural areas and white areas still vote against taxes that may be used to help non-white groups. It doesn't matter if these groups live in urban areas or not. Federal and state taxes do not just finance poor whites in rural areas.

It's your slogans that we would appreciate not seeing. If you are offended by my post, perhaps it shows that the shoe fits? My statement remains a bedrock fact. Non-white ethnic groups and races are scapegoats for Republicans' opposition to paying taxes, and motivates their support for trickle-down economics. "I don't want my tax money going to these lazy people who don't work" is the leading slogan and appeal of the Republican Party, especially in the rural counties.

These days, cities are getting more expensive to live in, especially on the coasts. Poor people can't afford to live in San Francisco or New York anymore. Liberal white people are more likely to live there, unless they are rich liberal non-white people. Maybe what you say about the hood applies to some other cities like Detroit, Milwaukee or Baltimore, but gentrification is also happening in some of these cities. The urban areas are where the jobs are and where the interesting people live. Young, bright people don't live in red, rural areas where people vote by 8 to 1 margins for Trump. These people are dumb and boring. Young people want opportunity and fun. So they move to blue cities, and leave the red areas to those who prefer a declining banana republic or who feel abandoned, resentful and stuck there and drugged up.