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Yavin4

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8. White entitlement.
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 01:12 PM
Mar 2018

You're 100% correct, and the people that want this the most are those White people who believe that their race is enough to guarantee them access to the middle class. They don't learn from history, nor want to, that it was massive government intervention in the market that created the middle class. Government forced corporations to accept unions and negotiate with them. Government also provided basic safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare. Finally, government directly gave cash payments to returning WWII vets to buy houses and go to college. That's what made the American middle class, not race.

We've have almost 40 years of reversals on those initiatives, and the result is a hollowed out middle class. So, instead of blaming Republicans and corporate America, it's the immigrants fault, African Americans, feminism, etc. Trump's chaos is looked upon as revenge against these groups. They've embraced the chaos like a child flipping over the chess board because they're losing.

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