The Grotesque Economic Demagoguery Of The GOP

Say anything about the superrich, you're attacked for waging “class warfare” and practicing “the politics of envy.” (Mitt Romney recently played the latter rhetorical card.)

Meanwhile, blacks are still demonized as lazy welfare-cheating parasites who'd rather live off food stamps than work. (Newt Gingrich.)

Class envy? For decades, white racist politicians have been stoking sick envy against those on the very bottom of the class pyramid. Even though “welfare” was always a pittance, which to obtain required and requires undergoing repeated humiliation rituals, a system of abasement. And since Clinton there is a lifetime limit of five years for receiving it. So how can they still run that tired demagoguery?

Wait, there's more. Talking about the class divide between the superrich and the majority is “dividing us,” says Romney and others.

Constantly stoking racism isn't divisive, right? And bashing Hispanic immigrants? Not divisive, huh?

Cynical bastards are expert at protecting the superrich by pitting ignorant whites against blacks and Hispanics, and generating hatred and contempt for the poor.

Maybe when the 99% are submerged into poverty, they'll look for another explanation of the world they live in.

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