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The white working class thinks racism is a valid political platform. They will continue to vote against their own interests as long as they imagine they are screwing racial minorities, especially black people. They are paying the price with lowered life expectation, higher suicide rates, high rates of drug abuse, and other effects. It serves them right. [/quote]

Who's the racist here?  Wow, just wow.

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NP.  I agree with everything the PP says except that it serves them right.  Racism has been a double whammy served up by both private interests and public institutions forever and I think it will desroy this country before it ever goes away.  For both business and government, it's been a way to distract a working class from wage suppression and keep them from unionizing or joining forces in any way for better conditions.

And it's worked.  Worked so well that it's costing us billions every year, made us vulnerable on many fronts, and still our quality of life hovers at third world country levels for a large part of our population.  That lie that Trump tells about immigration is as low as they come and as old as American politics.

Republicans will never stop relying on it because business wants dirt cheap labor but they're not allowed to treat Americans like slaves. Though that hasn't stopped the coal industry.

I posted this article in another thread.  http://www.dailyyonder.com/letter-from-langdon-trumps-atomic-knee-drop/2016/05/03/12869/

I read it weeks ago but it's stayed with me.  Perhaps because I'm a Fed who works in rural health and knows that the level of crisis is mindblowing compared to what we're doing to address it.  The current president is the only one who has made an effort at combating poverty in rural areas and he's been fought on those efforts by nearly every Republican office holder from city council to U.S. Congress, for no reason I can discern except racism.  It's breathtaking because hundreds of people are dying every day from this opioid epidemic and these yahoos are whipping up anger about bathrooms.

I don't protest with #BLM, but I'm black so I get it.  And reading that article made me - finally - get the All Lives Matter response.  I don't know what the last straw will be on the destructive nature of our all American racism.  It seems people really want to hold on to it and we're prepared to accept a lot of pain and misery to preserve it.[/quote]

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