Posted on 01/08/2016 11:48:52 AM PST by Citizen Zed
... the Bundy militia members occupying a federal wildlife preserve in Burns, Oregon are motivated by the very same mix of resentments and hobby horses that are driving the Donald Trump movement. Both Trump's supporters and the Bundy agitators are moved by an unsubtly racialized sense of entitlement, a belief that federal benefits and giveaways are great when going to conservative white people but illegitimate if they go to anyone else, especially people of color.
As David Roberts at Vox recently pointed out, Trump supporters aren't motivated by some ideological opposition to the concept of government benefits. They are perfectly fine with government benefits that they accrue. What they object to is other people - especially people of color, who they stereotype as lazy and undeserving - also getting benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
I put SALON through the Google Translator, and got:
SATAN.
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Who am I to question Google?
Salon ...... does anything more need to be said?
And don’t forget those brilliant Cruz supporters, so much smarter than the rest of us, so patronizing and arrogant are those lovers of the constitution who believe the constitution for thee, but not for me — anyone, even people born in Canada who have a father who is a Cuban citizen can be president and CIC — no problem, just ignore the constitution, it does not matter when we say it does not matter!
Exactly! Makes one wonder how they deal with the idea of American Indians living off the land. It would probably blow their mind to bring it up. Their silly thinking would make tribes living in the rain forests technically welfare recipients by default. :-)
Grazing rights are paid for
AMANDA MARCOTTE has the uncanny ability to read peoples minds
Remarkable. Kreskin, you have a challenger!
Can someone send me Amanda’s co-ordinates??
Amanda might be the only person who knows which numbers will win NY State powerball lottery
A bunch of rabble-rousers and hooligans took over a building on federal land, thoroughly trashing the place and partying to no end, daring authorities to take them on. Shameful.
That was decades ago on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The feds let them have their way for a couple years. Now those hooligans are being honored with tributes, and their graffiti is being preserved and treasured. True story, just this month in the news. If whites had done it, they would have been fire-bombed by the feds.
GOP candidates condemn Bundy takeoverRepublican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson all took to the campaign trail on Monday to denounce the gunmen. Cruz was the most forceful, calling on the activists to "stand down." "Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds," Cruz said in Iowa, according to NBC News. "But we don't have a constitutional right to use force and violence and to threaten force and violence on others," he said. "And so it is our hope that the protesters there will stand down peaceably, that there will not be a violent confrontation."and from the FRchives:
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