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info being (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-03-04 03:05 PM
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Screw the lower middle-class
I'm gonna say something decidedly un-Democratic. You can only help people who want to be helped. When the poor and debt-burdened lower middle-class in this country have their brains infected with so much feel-good religion that they stubbornly vote against their own interests...f*ck em.
I'm pretty well off, and a lot of people on DU are very educated and well off. Yet we spend our days trying to convince the poor to help themselves. But they don't listen...they listen to their Church. Let the Church explain why their lives are getting worse and worse.
Its time for us to start focusing on ourselves, on our friends, and on like-minded people. Its time for us to start contributing to a better world in different ways. Preaching to the intellectually tone-deaf is sucking up our energies and destroying us.
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greekspeak (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-03-04 03:36 PM
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35. A huge swath of the damned working people don't WANT our help
That is the point. These people are brainwashed into this religio-political cult that has emerged in this country. We keep losing more and more political ground because these people don't CARE what we say. They do what the TV and Preacher Bob and Boogyman Cheney says, and they go to their precious wal-mart and drive their SUVs and are convinced that it is God's will that they are the way they are. I have pity for people that cannot put food on the table. I am sickened that people cannot afford medicine and medical care. These people would rather "protect the sanctity of marriage" from us faggots than eat and be warm in the winter. That is pretty damned sad. But you can't shove food down their throats and force them to wear the band-aids national healthcare could provides. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. And these people are not thirsty for our water. They want to make their beds, let them lie in them. God what a string of trite metaphors.
These people just don't get it. I am pretty well off right now. I bought a gas station last year, bought a detail shop and a quick lube this year. Three years ago I was paroled after 74 months in prison and had only $50, two t-shirts and a pair of jeans to my name.
I was homeless and slept on a cot in one of the bays at the gas staion where I worked.
I was very content when I was homeless, just as content as I am now that I am doing well. My happiness does not come from the government giving me things. It does not come from seeing someone who has more than me, have less. I am not the only one who does not feel this way.
The people on DU, do not realize this.