"Or to use the less technical version, we can not have nice things (h/t Digby).
1/3rd of our fellow Americans would rather be poor and homeless because they would be force to share with Persons of Color.
As Chris Hayes argued on his program All In, T*ump's base, approximately 37% of the voting population, is effectively "holding the rest of the country hostage".
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"We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.
Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs.
"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he 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." - Billy Moyers quoting LBJ
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So, bottom line, Corporatists have for decades built upon this racial prejudice to finally obtain a Voter Base that they could control with fears of minorities, immigrants, an anyone else they can give said Base an opportunity to look down on, such as women or Democrats or trans or gay or women who have abortions.
Divide and Conquer is alive and well in Project25 Trump's 'Murica.
And if my spouse was stricken with a life threatening disease, I wouldn't wait over five weeks to quit my job before I could spend full time with them.
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