Bloomberg is Jewish. But more importantly the Republican effort to remove all social programs that benefit the middle class has been going on for a long time and has more to do w this libertarian streak and crazy fantasy of the rugged independent self dependent American. Since Reagan decided we didn’t need a middle class, the movement to extinguish all govt support continues.
Bloomberg is Jewish. But more importantly the Republican effort to remove all social programs that benefit the middle class has been going on for a long time and has more to do w this libertarian streak and crazy fantasy of the rugged independent self dependent American. Since Reagan decided we didn’t need a middle class, the movement to extinguish all govt support continues.
Yes, there is a time in everyone’s life when there is a need for help. It can come when least expected. I look around my community and family and see that. Many folks can get creative and keep going others reach a point when nothing helps and need the food bank, shelter, something more. These people who recognize their troubles and are brave enough to ask are the hero’s. Asking for help isn’t easy. But this is what helps all of us. People living on the street and going without brings ALL of us down. Having enough is what we want. Not to be rich. Just be happy, know what’s true, trust our neighbors. This feels like it’s disappearing. I personally, an educated woman have very little trust in people. When I have a pleasant interchange when I leave home, it’s great but always a surprise and I look back and wonder. The big carousel we ride around takes us to crazy places. We need to stop this ride, wake up, realize important and live out our days considering ourselves and our future. And the 1 percenters need to lead the way. The pedestal they rest on is about to break.
The removal of social programs is, and has been, an effective means of dividing the majority. Woke individuals know that it was 'social programs' following the great depression and WWII, that created the, predominately white, 'middle class'. They know that these programs (similar to the expansion of medicaid) were distributed by the States, so few black Americans were able to access those programs. Redlining pigeonholed black Americans to the undesirable parts of town where property values are still the lowest. But following the Civil Rights Era, it became more difficult to discriminate against black Americans and thus, harder to keep them from 'social programs'. When black Americans began to access social programs, they refined the "southern strategy" so that it became about class. Most white Americans were now middle class and didn't need those programs so they went along with (and continue to support) republican efforts to end social programs that benefit those under 'middle class'. The byproduct of this strategy, and it's ability to have some "cutting off their noses to spite their own faces", has been that we are ALL suffering, as you summize. In this effort to keep the undeserving black Americans from accessing social programs, poor whites and the middle class also continue to suffer (see Heather McGee's book- "The Sum Of Us"). Reagan strategist, Lee Atwater explained this new "Southern Strategy"-
Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now you don't have to do that. All that you need to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues that he's campaigned on since 1964, and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968, you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner."
Ironically, there were more white women's families on AFDC when Clinton allowed it to be demolished, than black or brown women's families. This is because there are more white women than black/brown in this country. So every whipping applied by cutting programs and funds hurts not just the minority, but also those we don't mean to hurt. ("Well, most of them are working class, anyway, and they don't matter either.") It was called, "AID to FAMILIES with DEPENDENT CHILDREN." Authored by Eleanor Roosevelt. White people were always the majority recipients. It allowed me to complete my education and qualify me for a job that paid enough to support my family. I was the poster child: white, in transition from marriage, two toddlers. Less than three years a recipient. For at least 85 percent of AFDC recipients, my situation was typical. It was a fine government program that lifted up my family.
True. And that’s why it to a lot to kill it. From there it went to WIC and SNAP. In many cases the media, GOP, and other anti-low income aid program folks place brown, Black, immigrants, and single mothers as the recipients of this aid. It became another thing for the Libertarians and Conservatives to hate. Labeled as ‘handouts’, they were always slated for the chopping block.
An 'inconvenient truth' for those that seek ultimate wealth & power, by dividing and conquering the majority. they prefer us to lack the knowledge that would reveal their game and the moves that would enable us to defeat them.
Also, ironically when Atwater was dying ( brain cancer, I think) he admitted that his political strategy was racist and was embarrassed or felt criminal in what he was able to do. He regretted the harm he did—but it took dying at a young age to get him to understand what is important.
fyiurban: Lee Atwater and his ilk, represent(ed) the millionaire, now bllionaire class, and use racism as a tool,to keep us all in bondage and to protect their wealth and power.What you say is correct, there is in fact racism, behind Reaganomics, but the root of it all, was identified by Bernie Sanders, and Warren Buffet, it is class warfare, and the billionaire class won.
Actually it is deeper than that, at root it is patriarchal ism . if you ask why 5% isn't enough, the answer is to own the world. And to own the world, involves a mad competitive scramble of the elites to get to the top of the manure pile, and to keep from sliding down. And the underlying motivation?
Agreed. culture wars are a way to divide. They simultaneously provide a scapegoat to distract us and hide the real culprits- corporate interests and billionaires.
Bloomberg is Jewish. But more importantly the Republican effort to remove all social programs that benefit the middle class has been going on for a long time and has more to do w this libertarian streak and crazy fantasy of the rugged independent self dependent American. Since Reagan decided we didn’t need a middle class, the movement to extinguish all govt support continues.
They have forgotten “united we stand, divided we fall”.
Yes, there is a time in everyone’s life when there is a need for help. It can come when least expected. I look around my community and family and see that. Many folks can get creative and keep going others reach a point when nothing helps and need the food bank, shelter, something more. These people who recognize their troubles and are brave enough to ask are the hero’s. Asking for help isn’t easy. But this is what helps all of us. People living on the street and going without brings ALL of us down. Having enough is what we want. Not to be rich. Just be happy, know what’s true, trust our neighbors. This feels like it’s disappearing. I personally, an educated woman have very little trust in people. When I have a pleasant interchange when I leave home, it’s great but always a surprise and I look back and wonder. The big carousel we ride around takes us to crazy places. We need to stop this ride, wake up, realize important and live out our days considering ourselves and our future. And the 1 percenters need to lead the way. The pedestal they rest on is about to break.
They no longer need a muffle class because the whole world is now their customer base. Global capitalism.
I think its time for people's socialism and nationalism if undustries, what the hay...im just sayin.
MIDDLE class. Autocorrect is running rampant!
Actually, it's the lower middle class, or what I call the mower class.
The removal of social programs is, and has been, an effective means of dividing the majority. Woke individuals know that it was 'social programs' following the great depression and WWII, that created the, predominately white, 'middle class'. They know that these programs (similar to the expansion of medicaid) were distributed by the States, so few black Americans were able to access those programs. Redlining pigeonholed black Americans to the undesirable parts of town where property values are still the lowest. But following the Civil Rights Era, it became more difficult to discriminate against black Americans and thus, harder to keep them from 'social programs'. When black Americans began to access social programs, they refined the "southern strategy" so that it became about class. Most white Americans were now middle class and didn't need those programs so they went along with (and continue to support) republican efforts to end social programs that benefit those under 'middle class'. The byproduct of this strategy, and it's ability to have some "cutting off their noses to spite their own faces", has been that we are ALL suffering, as you summize. In this effort to keep the undeserving black Americans from accessing social programs, poor whites and the middle class also continue to suffer (see Heather McGee's book- "The Sum Of Us"). Reagan strategist, Lee Atwater explained this new "Southern Strategy"-
Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now you don't have to do that. All that you need to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues that he's campaigned on since 1964, and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968, you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner."
Ironically, there were more white women's families on AFDC when Clinton allowed it to be demolished, than black or brown women's families. This is because there are more white women than black/brown in this country. So every whipping applied by cutting programs and funds hurts not just the minority, but also those we don't mean to hurt. ("Well, most of them are working class, anyway, and they don't matter either.") It was called, "AID to FAMILIES with DEPENDENT CHILDREN." Authored by Eleanor Roosevelt. White people were always the majority recipients. It allowed me to complete my education and qualify me for a job that paid enough to support my family. I was the poster child: white, in transition from marriage, two toddlers. Less than three years a recipient. For at least 85 percent of AFDC recipients, my situation was typical. It was a fine government program that lifted up my family.
True. And that’s why it to a lot to kill it. From there it went to WIC and SNAP. In many cases the media, GOP, and other anti-low income aid program folks place brown, Black, immigrants, and single mothers as the recipients of this aid. It became another thing for the Libertarians and Conservatives to hate. Labeled as ‘handouts’, they were always slated for the chopping block.
An 'inconvenient truth' for those that seek ultimate wealth & power, by dividing and conquering the majority. they prefer us to lack the knowledge that would reveal their game and the moves that would enable us to defeat them.
Also, ironically when Atwater was dying ( brain cancer, I think) he admitted that his political strategy was racist and was embarrassed or felt criminal in what he was able to do. He regretted the harm he did—but it took dying at a young age to get him to understand what is important.
Was it Lee Atwater who came up with the idea about opposition research, that instead of finding dirt on your opponent, just make up shit?
fyiurban: Lee Atwater and his ilk, represent(ed) the millionaire, now bllionaire class, and use racism as a tool,to keep us all in bondage and to protect their wealth and power.What you say is correct, there is in fact racism, behind Reaganomics, but the root of it all, was identified by Bernie Sanders, and Warren Buffet, it is class warfare, and the billionaire class won.
Actually it is deeper than that, at root it is patriarchal ism . if you ask why 5% isn't enough, the answer is to own the world. And to own the world, involves a mad competitive scramble of the elites to get to the top of the manure pile, and to keep from sliding down. And the underlying motivation?
Look no further than the animal world. The rut
Agreed. culture wars are a way to divide. They simultaneously provide a scapegoat to distract us and hide the real culprits- corporate interests and billionaires.