(July 6, 2014 at 9:27 am)Blackout Wrote: You are taking the liberal and conservative ideas to the extreme, not all conservatives are racists against minorities and not all liberals want to live by other people's money. Your replies to each other look somewhat childish.
Not all conservatives are racist, but racism deeply permeates American conservative politics and is an element in virtually every socio-economic policy they have. Conservatives in this country started a civil war and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans to preserve the right to own black people as property. Conservatives were the ones angrily resisting the end of segregation and engaging in violence against civil rights activists. That mentality has been watered down, but it's not gone. Now they just demonize the black man that most Americans wanted to lead the executive branch. Do they do this by calling him a nigger? Yeah, actually, that happens with considerable frequency. A lot of it is more circumspect. If you think the constant referral to Obama as a Kenyan or a Muslim isn't about race, you're in painful denial. And this mindset is not fringe within conservative politics. It is, rather, one of its primary defining elements.
Now, of course, not all conservatives are racist. It's just that the ones who are dominate conservatism and the ones who aren't perpetuate the racism by voting for these candidates, or at the very least pretend that racism isn't there when it very obviously is. That makes them complicit.
I don't think anyone should live on anyone else's money. That's why I oppose the idea that wealthy deserve to reap the vast majority of the rewards from the hard work of their employees. People in America are poor primarily because the rich steal from them.
