arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Fri Aug-19-11 04:51 PM
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I think I've figured out why the non-wealthy would support teabagger policies/goals.
If you talk to 'baggers, you'll notice something about them right away: they like to have someone to blame for society's ills, and it usually involves groups of people getting something the 'baggers don't feel those people deserve.
When you couple this with the religious sensibilities of most 'baggers, the picture comes into focus even more.
Teabaggers want to punish people for "immorality". This is refelected in their desire to dismantle the safety nets, because in 'baggers minds, the poor have some moral deficiency (laziness, greed, different skin color or ethnicity - YES, that last IS a moral issue in their twisted "minds") which makes them poor. Similarly, their stand on abortion and choice is far less about actual life (they'd be anti-war and anti-death penalty if it were really about life), than it is about the desire to punish a sexually "immoral" woman.
You can go issue by issue, and it's all about the desire to punish "wrongdoers".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1773608Wrong again DUmmy.
they like to have someone to blame for society's ills, and it usually involves groups of people getting something the 'baggers don't feel those people deserve.
Sounds like you goons describing the rich. You blame them for everything under the sun, and you have the nerve to call them leeches, when they are the ones producing something.
Teabaggers want to punish people for "immorality". This is refelected in their desire to dismantle the safety nets, because in 'baggers minds, the poor have some moral deficiency (laziness, greed, different skin color or ethnicity - YES, that last IS a moral issue in their twisted "minds") which makes them poor.
No, we think that those who can work, have a responsibility to take care of themselves and not sit on the couch waiting for that next check from Uncle Sam.
I'm not even going to bother to address the skin color and ethnicity claim since it is such bullshit.
Similarly, their stand on abortion and choice is far less about actual life (they'd be anti-war and anti-death penalty if it were really about life), than it is about the desire to punish a sexually "immoral" woman.
Yeah it has nothing to do with an innocent baby being killed, we just wanna put women in their place.
What I can't figure out, is why capital punishment for the unborn is cheered by DUmmies, yet the same DUmmies cry themselves to sleep when a sick twisted murderer receives justice. This goon also thinks we like war, we more than anyone know the price that war brings, since a lot of us served at one time or another, we also realize that when someone wants us all dead we have no choice, but to kill them first.
You can go issue by issue, and it's all about the desire to punish "wrongdoers".
You can go issue by issue of what the left believes in, and it is all about punishment, punish the rich by taking their money, punish the working class, and I don't mean unions I mean decent hard working folks, by making them have to work harder so you can get your freebies, and generally just looting whatever you can from any productive person then have the gall to say they steal from you.
Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Aug-19-11 04:53 PM
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1. The reason right wingers support the rich
is because they truly believe they will one day be rich and they treat them the way they want to be treated when they are rich.
Nope, I will probably never be rich, but I believe in freedom, so if someone has more than I do, I don't feel that they owe me something.
Deep13 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Aug-19-11 04:55 PM
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3. If this were the 1930s, they would be blaming the Jews. nt
We leave that up to Screwy Louie Farakahn, Al Sharpton, and so forth.
valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Aug-19-11 06:24 PM
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12. It's simpler than that. They do what the teevee tells them. They believe what the teevee tells them.
They don't know how to think.
My tee vee never tells me to do anything, I must be watching the wrong channels on the rare occasion I am watching the tee vee.
pitohui (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Aug-19-11 07:34 PM
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18. yeah maybe but to me it's obvious that it's all about racism
the immorality bit comes in because they think "those kind" are more immoral than "our kind"
when their son gets on drugs, it's a terrible tragedy and a genetic mix-up and god's way of bringing them to the church...when the black woman's child gets on drugs, it's proof somehow that "they" are inferior
i've seen it too often over the decades, you are not going to convince me there is anything good or moral about these racist pigs, sorry
they will say "praise god" as they rip you off and rob you blind, since they are forgiven, they figure that they don't have to follow the same rules of honesty as the rest of us
They haven't the slightest clue what any of us actually believes in.
