@benroyce @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox they understand. They are facing brutal racial profiling, racist xenophobia, attacks for speaking Spanish. They don't care. Like almost all white women, they are big beneficiaries of the Civil Rights movement who spend their lives undermining that legacy to the benefit of despicable white men.

@jonesmurphy @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

i would say the bigotry has always been there, yes

but i would say that plutocrat funded methods for aligning the bigots to plutocrat agendas is a well-oiled machine

a plutocrat-bigot political axis

not that plutocrats are creating bigots, no that's not what i mean

i mean plutocrats working over these shitbags for devotion with simple cons only morons fall for by appealing to their ignorant hate

@benroyce @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox you are absolutely correct. BUT remember that plutocrat numbers and aggregate wealth were MUCH smaller immediately after Civil Rights. Racist voters have massively concentrated wealth and opportunity ever since Civil Rights, to keep them away from black people. Poor racists created today's toxic, threatening billionaire class.

@jonesmurphy @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

Yeah there's plutocrats using bigots. But as you say plenty of those plutocrats *are* bigots.

@benroyce @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox you're absolutely correct. AND modern plutocracy is overwhelmingly caused by bigotry.

@jonesmurphy @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

A feedback loop

Bigots turn out to vote for plutocrat agendas

And plutocracy rewards bigots

@benroyce @swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox it doesn't reward them economically. Bigots lose money and life expectancy. BUT they get more bigotry, and that's all they care about.

@mike805 @sennoma @Scrimshaw9 @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

@swacknificent @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

well there is division on the right too

the problem is that gets all papered over because they have a huge brainwashed mindless MAGA cult

division is inescapable. division is normal

it's just in our current time the natural (and unnatural) division on the left vs the manufactured unity on the right based on appeals to the bigotry that has always been with us, all funded by plutocrat controlled media, is a huge problem

@benroyce @mike805 @sennoma @Scrimshaw9 @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. . I'd not run into that quote before and I've not seen a quote quite that accurate. I keep asking what they want to conserve? Slavery, uncivil rights (One I think they have truly conquered), belching and farting in public. Yup on a whole conservatives never got past the little girl in Willie Wonka who wanted her desires NOW!!! no matter how inane.

@sennoma @Scrimshaw9 @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

but it's even worse than that because most of the world uses red for left and blue for right

so any non-american viewing this will be confused about what is being said here

@mike805 @sennoma @Scrimshaw9 @maya_b @gerowen @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox

i disagree

of course there is some disunity on the right as well

but what the right has that the left does not is this absolutely devoted, absolutely fucking stupid and mindless, MAGA cult of zombies who fervently show up to vote and fervently obey their plutocrat masters

that's a huge problem

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