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(69,014 posts)Said by Roger Thorpe, greatest of soap opera villains.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)the government is taking your tax dollars and giving them to minorities who are too lazy to get up off their ass and work for a living.
If you are a lower middle class white American, it's really easy for you to buy into that thinking. You aren't doing that well anyway and you think you're paying far more in taxes than you get in benefits and you don't really like minorities to begin with.
So it doesn't take a lot of convincing for you to believe that the government, particularly one controlled by Democrats, is engaging in this massive redistribution of wealth at your expense.
Oddly enough, they are taking your tax dollars and giving them to people who don't deserve them. But they aren't minorities, anyway most of them aren't. They're wealthy corporate executives, board members and bankers and they think you are an easily exploited sucker for giving them your money without a peep. Even as they continue to stroke your prejudices with more tales of undeserving minorities doing obscene things with your money.
Cha
(297,258 posts)Thanks babylonsistah!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)"... yet, here we are"