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The death of the “working class GOP” [1]
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Date: 2022-11-10
Fox will have you believe these two men are Republicans. Can we be so sure about that anymore?
If you’re familiar with pro-Republican, right leaning media lore, you’d know the drill: Republicans are the party of working class families who work day and night to provide for their children while Democrats are the party of billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, and spoiled latte-sipping, tofu-eating, Communist Manifesto-reading college-age socialists who know nothing about the struggles of “real Americans”.
Let’s hope November 8, 2022 can be etched onto the gravestone that marks the end of this decades-old myth.
An exit poll conducted by CNN among midterm voters cited 2 major concerns among them: inflation and abortion. Both weighed nearly equally.
And while Republicans have harped on and on about inflation, that’s all they’ve done: harp and harp. They seem to treat voters including their own like such uninformed rubes that they’re trying to blame a crisis that has affected the world, in some places worse than others (“coincidentally” thanks to the same kind of governance Republicans hope to bring to the table), squarely on President Biden — as if “Sleepy Joe” had a lever in the Oval Office that raises and reduces gas prices by a dollar anytime he wants to.
For the record, this accusation is so absurdly simplistic and devoid of reality even the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has poured cold water on that claim.
Let’s not even get started on their utterly callous, deranged, and despicable views on abortion — views even their late messiah Ronald Reagan might’ve disapproved of.
And speaking of the creator of the 11th Commandment, should I go on about the infighting (no citation needed) that’s plagued his grand old party the last 2 years?
For decades the GOP has slowly planted into voters’ minds this notion that far right, conservative views that prey on bigotry to almost exclusively benefit the 1% represent the views of “real” America.
To pull this stunt off, millions of dollars were poured into rabble rousers in the media — on radio (the late Limbaugh, Hannity), on TV (Fox), in newspapers (NY Post, WSJ), and relatively more recently, on social media (Owens, Kirk). These provocateurs worked in tandem to amplify narratives that benefit their donors in ways that the left simply cannot rival.
But we have CNN! One may say. Yeah, about CNN…
So what’s really going on here? Well, democracy.
The most beautiful thing about democracy is that it’s indifferent to your background. It doesn’t look at whether you live off of food stamps or if your favorite food is crudités. It doesn’t look at your gender, skin color, religion, or political affiliation. It doesn’t look at whether you have 5 or 5 billion dollars in your bank account. When your ballot is counted by a poll worker, your votes are all worth just the same. And this is a problem for the billionaires.
There are only so many fools to fool before the rest of the group see through the deception and unite against the conmen. Billionaires may think they can use their immense wealth to buy votes for their favored puppets in suits, taking us for gullible fools begging for them to let us lick their boots as they slowly kill our planet — but when we the people vote en masse against them we prove them wrong.
We’re not fooled by their shills pretending views held by more than half the American public are somehow radical or god forbid “Communist”. Be it on abortion access or gun control, despite what Tucker Carlson may say (or pretend to believe) he’s not on the side of the majority of the American people on those issues and many more.
Moms and dads voted blue. Married and divorced parents voted blue. Boomers, millennials, and Gen Z voted blue. Men and women voted blue. Whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, natives, et al. voted blue. Straight and LGBTQ+ people voted blue. It’s a big club and you’re always welcome to join in!
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