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Re: What do you do when your friends turn Right?
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, February 21 2011, 13:38:45 (UTC)
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...it does seem paradoxical that Tea Party people would work for policies that only hurt them further...you wonder how they pay their bills....but are they really working against what they perceive as their own best interests?

What makes a person politically conservative, I think, is fear...fear of change...which really means fear of Life...with a capital "L". Conservatives are terrified of the changes that have already taken place, and what they see coming, or think they see coming. Mostly they are White but there are Darkies in among them...Darkies so relieved to be accepted by what they consider the superior class or even race....

Tea Party people are more afraid of losing what they see as their "privileged" place in society than they are about their pay checks. From their point of view they are working FOR their interests, even though the policies they champion hurt them in the real world....they aren't as interested in that as they are in maintaining what they believe is their privileged position.

It isn't very different from the way Whites were encouraged to feel during Reconstruction, after the Civil War when, for a very brief time, former Slaves were elected to state governments and had positions of power and the beginnings of wealth...poor Whites were induced to feel outraged....even though freeing the Slaves would eventually increase their own well being and salaries and job opportunities....White trash felt they were losing the privilege of at least not being Black...and poor. They had someone to look down on, someone they could feel superior to...Slave society was changing much too rapidly for them and they feared they would lose the "benefits" they had supposedly enjoyed before. And they preferred to remain poor, to hurt themselves financially and in every other way so long as they could keep their "status".


And rich White folk knew just how to manipulate them.

Same with Tea Party trash and billionaires who back their movement.



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