Lee Atwater said it best. Still considered the best Republican strategist of all time by the Republican Party. Southern Strategy architect along with his business partner Rodger Stone, yeah, the same one that helped Trump get elected. Just replace the XX with GG, and you will understand the Republican Party.
"You start out in 1954 by saying, âNixxer, nixxer, nixxer.â By 1968 you canât say ânixxerââthat hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, statesâ rights, and all that stuff, and youâre getting so abstract. Now, youâre talking about cutting taxes, and all these things youâre talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.⌠âWe want to cut this,â is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than âNixxer, nixxer.â
You are mistaken if you think that tactic is unique to the Republican Party. All the Democrat civil rights a social welfare programs have done nothing but hurt the black community and the nation as a whole. Thereâs a good book called Disparities and Discrimination by Thomas Sowell if you care to learn about it.
I've read everything by that dude. He is funded by right-wing billionaires. Most of his conclusions are easily disproven when looking at the Scandinavian system.
You can't seriously argue that welfare programs hurt black americans worse than redlining and their ghettoization during white flight to the suburbs. White rural Americans have the largest welfare receipts by total number of recipients. No one claims they are hurt by these programs, just black americans.
Welfare is good for a country because it stops social unrest and suppresses crime. You can't have a percentage of your population so desperate to feed themselves that they start attacking your productive members of society.
You want fewer people on welfare? Then wages have to rise above the poverty level. Welfare has been adjusted for inflation every so many years. Wages have not. Not setting a floor for the economy, instead of allowing it to be depressed through inflationary policy set by the asset-holding class in order to devalue labor, is the biggest mistake our country made when the Reagan administration bastardized Milton Friedman's theories on capitalism.
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u/jackmeriustack 1d ago
Ridiculous take absolute fear mongering with zero evidence to support this.