Do Regressives Play Your Emotional Ignorance?

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Americans know how to work hard. We put a lot of hours at the office or in the field. We also know how to play hard. Millions of Americans sit in front of the television for the Super Bowl and World Series. What we don’t do is pay attention to our democracy. While our military defends our democracy from outside threats, the average voter is the domestic defender of internal threats.

Americans are ignorant of the real issues, which is why the regressive Republicans are able to use fear and jealousy as pinpoints in election. The GOP have been masters at turning brother vs. brother, father vs. son, mother vs. daughter and fighting within one class of people, mainly the working class.

Yes, there are classes in this country, no matter what the conservatives say. All the liberals have to do is point to Wall Street or corporate America and the GOP complains of class warfare. Yet they use these same tactics. The Republicans will point to the union members and tell the non union member that the reason his job may be outsourced is the threat of unions organizers. The conservatives just spent a lot of political capital trying to dismantle public unions, pointing to the union’s “generous” benefits and telling the private sector non-union guy that he should fight against these union thugs because he doesn’t get a pension. Rather than telling the non-union member to join a union and negotiate a pension for himself, they want him to take away the pension of someone else.

It is about the POLITICS OF RESENTMENT and it’s as old as the Reagan revolution and his welfare queen. Except today’s GOP welfare queens are public sector union members, like police, teachers and firemen.

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This is how the Republicans win elections. They don’t want you to pay attention to the outsourcing corporations and the shareholders who push for more of it in order to increase dividend checks. They don’t want you to realize that wages for working class Americans have stagnated for a generation while corporate profits continue to grow. Instead they want you to resent fellow middle class citizens and retirees.

The conservatives continually paint liberals in a bad light but if you think about it, it is the liberal who fights for the worker on the factory floor and it is the conservative who protects the outsourcing corporation, CEO and shareholder. That being the case, liberals have a lot to be proud of.

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