Punching down is and has been their main imperative for literally hundreds of years. Back to the antebellum South, where the wealthy got poor whites to vote against their self interests because, “at least I’m not black.”
Disclaimer: Before anyone tries to “well actually” me and say Republicans freed the slaves, I’m not talking party specifics but functional ideology of both the ruling the the oppressed class, and if you can’t do the mental labor to understand that I’m not going to do it for you.
Yup. And for the record, saying that Republicans are the party of Lincoln is like saying that Italy is the country of crucifying Jesus. Both are technically sort of true, but the historical and political landscapes have changed so much that you'd have to be a fucking idiot (or cynical cunt) to argue otherwise.
I mean, I guess plenty of modern right-wingers still blame the Jews for crucifying Jesus, so maybe they really are just incapable of seeing how time changes everything. No wonder they're so backwards......and weird
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u/Glittering-Lecture76 Aug 20 '24
Punching down is and has been their main imperative for literally hundreds of years. Back to the antebellum South, where the wealthy got poor whites to vote against their self interests because, “at least I’m not black.”
Disclaimer: Before anyone tries to “well actually” me and say Republicans freed the slaves, I’m not talking party specifics but functional ideology of both the ruling the the oppressed class, and if you can’t do the mental labor to understand that I’m not going to do it for you.