Are you applying the empirical/anecdotal dichotomy to your 'analysis' of my posts? How cute
Are you applying the empirical/anecdotal dichotomy to your 'analysis' of my posts? How cute
If you ask them to define “less government” and how do we know when we’ve hit that point and what are the risk vs. rewards of “less government” you’ll won’t get a real effective argument. As we know it’s just a top-down wet dream to allow the rich to devour the planet with little to no restraint as only governments and unions have that power. And opps did we mention they hate unions too.
Teaching People to Hate Their Own Govt. Is at the Core of the Project to Destroy the Middle Class – Alternet.org
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The one thing about that to stick out to me the most and the fastest...
[ Then the US government found itself in the crosshairs of the brand-new Reagan Revolution with no way to understand why it was under attack and no way to defend itself. For thirty years, it took blow after blow. Now, while still standing, that government is very different from what it was when Reagan took office. It is much weaker, no longer able to offer the protections or provide the services the middle class took for granted thirty years ago—the same kinds of services that many European democracies have continued to provide for their citizens during the period of US economic and social decline. And in its weakened state the US government has lost the support of the very citizens who depended on it the most, the middle class.
How did this happen? When Ronald Reagan got to Washington, he set out to convince the middle class that their government was their enemy, using his considerable powers of persuasion. The basic message of Reagan and the conservatives was that everyone would be better off if the federal government just disappeared. They were smart enough not to say this directly, however. Instead, they just landed one body blow after another without openly expressing their desire to destroy the government.
For example, Reagan attacked government workers, contending they were lazy, they wasted taxpayer money, and they involved themselves in issues they knew nothing about, like regulating large businesses and corporations. Within the first few years of Reagan’s election, the morale of the federal workforce plummeted as these employees saw their image shift from being considered public servants trying to make life in the United States better for everyone to being seen as lazy, despised bureaucrats wasting taxpayer money. Far from being a place where committed public servants worked to help the public, Washington, DC, became known as the place where crooks, thieves, and lazy workers stole taxpayer money for foolish purposes or their own personal benefit. ]
..for people of color, women who don't automatically do as certain people say, certain members of the lgbtq community, muslims, immigrants and i would imagine in the future a whole mess of other people. That sounds INSANELY familiar.
It's amazing how simplistic it all is.
Group A cheats, lies and steals. Painting group b as something they aren't.
It works because of white privilege masking their motives.
Group A cheats, lies and steals. Painting group c as something they aren't.
It works because of white privilege masking their motives.
Group A cheats, lies and steals. Painting group d as something they aren't.
It works because of white privilege masking their motives.
Group A cheats, lies and steals. Painting group e as something they aren't.
It works because of white privilege masking their motives.
Group A cheats, lies and steals. Painting group g as something they aren't.
It works because of white privilege masking their motives.
You can replace all letters after a with all kinds of different groups and still be accurate. Jewish people. Muslims. People of color. The lgbtq community. Women. Feminists. Atheists. The disabled. The poor. Those needing healthcare. And so on.
One general single solitary strategy used over an over an over an over an over an over an over an over an over again. Getting away with it every last time just because of how influential white privilege has been, is and will continue to be.
Hell. People are even attempting to use that strategy against scientists, those who want to do something about climate change and those who want universal healthcare.
And...thousands of years later. It still works on an insane amount of people. Doesn't even matter if they're americans either. lol
Reagan was The Godfather of the strategy of corporate feudalism we are all in now. The author of the book “Fifteen Steps to Corporate Feudalism: How the Rich Convinced America's Middle Class Eliminate Themselves“ goes through the entire conservative strategy here:
It’s no surprise now some 40 years later the results are in with the rich owning more than they ever have and the US sliding behind it’s peers in life expectancy, education, job security, wages, infrastructure. And still the fix is still lower taxes and less government. Wall Street loves it and Americans have deluded themselves into believing that’s all that matters.
Economists and financial experts have been telling us for years how great things are for U.S. workers and consumers. The stuff we buy is dirt cheap, and living standards are higher than ever. Wages are keeping pace with inflation. Inequality probably isn’t as bad as you’ve been led to believe. The stock market is booming!
So why, then, do so many of us feel like we can barely make ends meet?
A new report published by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, offers a clear explanation for the disconnect between the economy described by economists and the one experienced by regular people. It all boils down to the startling shift illustrated in the chart below.
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This chart is the best explanation of middle-class finances you will ever see
Where is the money we’re supposed to be pouring into the stock market getting rich? Oh right it’s not there. Only the rich can do that. It’s all just smoke and mirrors.So why, then, do so many of us feel like we can barely make ends meet?
A new report published by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, offers a clear explanation for the disconnect between the economy described by economists and the one experienced by regular people. It all boils down to the startling shift illustrated in the chart below.
This chart is the best explanation of middle-class finances you will ever see
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Incorrect, you have shown allegiance to one side here.
So in other words we should just bullshit our way through complex topics. Evidence and documentation is to be eliminated.
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2 + 2 = 5. That's the desired outcome. Which is hilariously considering for a minute there that book was ALL they talked about.
Is this what “small government” looks like?
President Trump seems to know very little about the coronavirus - CNNPolitics
President Trump seems to know very little about the coronavirus - CNNPolitics
No, it is what a small man looks like.
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It's entirely likely for a white tramp to have privilege over a black tramp, and for a white millionaire to have privilege over a black millionaire.
Small small small....
Trump Proposes 16% Cut To CDC As Global Number Of Coronavirus Infections And Deaths Rise
Trump Proposes Significant Cuts to NIH for 2021 Budget
No wonder some here don’t like articles.
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@slivovic I not only believe that but it has been studied. Extensively.
Black People More Likely to Be Stopped by Cops, Study Finds
[ Black people are more likely to be stopped by police but — once they are stopped — they are less likely to be shot than whites, new research finds.
The study could not say whether blacks, Hispanics and American Indians are more likely to commit crimes and thus be arrested, but they are more likely to be arrested once stopped, the research finds. ]
Study: anti-black hiring discrimination is as prevalent today as it was in 1989
[ A new study, by researchers at Northwestern University, Harvard, and the Institute for Social Research in Norway, looked at every available field experiment on hiring discrimination from 1989 through 2015. The researchers found that anti-black racism in hiring is unchanged since at least 1989, while anti-Latino racism may have decreased modestly. ]
Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring
[ Bradley Miller is more likely to be hired than José Rodriguez. Zhang Wei (David) is more competent than Jamal Banks. And both Miller and Zhang are more competent and hirable than Maria Rodriguez or Shanice Banks.
These postdoc job candidates are fictional. But the differences in how they’re viewed based on name alone—despite identical CVs—by a sample of professors are real. That’s according to a new study that unearths evidence of racial bias in biology and a combination of gender and racial bias in physics, highlighting both the pervasive nature of various biases in science as well as important disciplinary differences. ]
Study: Race could be a determinant in physician-patient interactions and pain treatment in cancer - Purdue University News
[ A 62-year-old with stage IV lung cancer that has spread to his bones, causing unspeakable pain, is trying to convince his physician to prescribe pain medicine. What happens next?
It actually could depend on if the patient is black or white. Or if the physician is a primary care provider or an oncologist. ]
Study: Racial bias declined during the Black Lives Matter movement -- but not during Obama's presidency
[ A new study provides evidence that racism in the United States declined during the Black Lives Matter movement, especially among Whites.
The findings, which were recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggest that anti-racist social movements can transform people’s attitudes and reduce racial bias. ]
Black People More Likely to Be Stopped by Cops, Study Finds
[ Black people are more likely to be stopped by police but — once they are stopped — they are less likely to be shot than whites, new research finds.
The study could not say whether blacks, Hispanics and American Indians are more likely to commit crimes and thus be arrested, but they are more likely to be arrested once stopped, the research finds. ]
Study: anti-black hiring discrimination is as prevalent today as it was in 1989
[ A new study, by researchers at Northwestern University, Harvard, and the Institute for Social Research in Norway, looked at every available field experiment on hiring discrimination from 1989 through 2015. The researchers found that anti-black racism in hiring is unchanged since at least 1989, while anti-Latino racism may have decreased modestly. ]
Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring
[ Bradley Miller is more likely to be hired than José Rodriguez. Zhang Wei (David) is more competent than Jamal Banks. And both Miller and Zhang are more competent and hirable than Maria Rodriguez or Shanice Banks.
These postdoc job candidates are fictional. But the differences in how they’re viewed based on name alone—despite identical CVs—by a sample of professors are real. That’s according to a new study that unearths evidence of racial bias in biology and a combination of gender and racial bias in physics, highlighting both the pervasive nature of various biases in science as well as important disciplinary differences. ]
Study: Race could be a determinant in physician-patient interactions and pain treatment in cancer - Purdue University News
[ A 62-year-old with stage IV lung cancer that has spread to his bones, causing unspeakable pain, is trying to convince his physician to prescribe pain medicine. What happens next?
It actually could depend on if the patient is black or white. Or if the physician is a primary care provider or an oncologist. ]
Study: Racial bias declined during the Black Lives Matter movement -- but not during Obama's presidency
[ A new study provides evidence that racism in the United States declined during the Black Lives Matter movement, especially among Whites.
The findings, which were recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggest that anti-racist social movements can transform people’s attitudes and reduce racial bias. ]
And then we have 'incompetent government" - Trump official says coronavirus death rate same as flu – despite it being 100 times worse
Every sign for the Flu shot is "80K people die of flu in America"- whose fibbing?
No - just a mere observation. Please learn how to read.
