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I tend not to invest in what comedians say about politics but what he said in part Tuesday night struck home w/ me.
“This is a moment for people to understand that political involvement is a
responsibility. It’s not just words on paper. You can opt out of voting
but you cannot opt out of the effects of your lack of action. It’s important
to not lose heart.”Personally, I don’t think we are now somehow “done”. I choose to view this as the
last bullet in the rural white man’s six shooter to defend against the country’s changing and darker complexion and a pie in the sky hope to somehow change our evolving culture.Waterfield,
It’s also the result of a highly successful campaign by the super-rich to scapegoat people of color. It’s worked. Far too many white people blame those people of color for supposedly stealing their jobs and lowering their wages, and Trump exploited this already existing belief effectively. The cultural aspects of seeing one’s unquestioned status as top dog slip away is another factor. It’s an extension of what we saw in the Jim Crow South among poor and middle class whites. They once could always look at black people and think or say out loud, “Well, at least I’m not them.”
Bottom line: Instead of looking up at the people really screwing them — billionaires like Trump, corporate America, and both of the major parties working for those financial elites — they just blame people of color and one half of the duopoly. They’ve been fed so much bullshit propaganda, they can’t see straight, and they’re so filled with paranoia, they refuse to hear otherwise.
Both parties have failed these people and the rest of us. But they both work for the super-rich, with few exceptions, and too many people on the right are oblivious of this fact. Instead, they think their enemies are unions, public sector workers, feminists, environmentalists, leftists, liberals and people of color — here and overseas. They have their skepticism and paranoia meters preset to register only one small part of the whole, while turning it off entirely for the super-rich and their fellow right-wingers in general.
In short, they’ve been bamboozled.
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