[quote=Brutus]
Here’s what they can do about it:
Stop watching trash TV. Stop watching MOST TV.
Read a friggin’ book or two. Go to school.
Study.
Stop listening to rap “music.”
Stop believing that all Liberals want to do is help you.
Stop smoking pot.
Stop smoking crack.
Stop getting drunk.
Stop having babies you can’t afford.
Go to school.
Be a nerd.
Get a job, ANY job. Keep it until you can get the job you want.
Work harder.
Work better.
Think.
Read books of all types.
Read some more.
Stop watching TV.
Think.
Stop watching trash TV.
Stop blaming everyone else for your problems.
Stop waiting for the government to help you.
It ain’t 1955 anymore.
If you want to see how a poor person can get ahead, observe how a typical Asian immigrant handles America.
Do what they do.
It works.
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Brutus, you’re a perfect example of what today’s right wing is selling and why it doesn’t work.
The above is the closest you’ve come to offering any solutions. But if one looks closely, there really isn’t a solution there, there’s just anger. There’s an assumption that the problem with poor people is that they’re just screw offs. That there’s nothing keeping them from not being poor except their own laziness and ineptitude.
You love to be angry and righteous. You love to spew venom. You don’t like to offer real solutions and, when your ideas are shot down, you ignore it and move on to something else that you’re angry about. And you probably don’t even notice that you’re doing it. Because you’re not thinking, you’re reacting.
The right wing is great at emotional manipulation, which is the only reason they get as many votes as they do. They’ve created buzzwords like “liberal” and “socialism.” You hate liberals and you hate socialism. But you don’t even know what they are. But you sure feel good using those words. And that’s what the right wing’s strategy is all about. Sell ideas that, while they have no practical value, make potential voters feel righteous and powerful and smart and good (better than those lazy, freeloading bastards their tax dollars support).
So they get elected by the angry, righteous voters, and then they do nothing but obstruct progress. Nothing but mock the left while they do nothing at all to actually govern or improve our country.
My desire is not that people vote for Democrats, necessarily. It’s that people think for themselves. Think instead of react. Think instead of follow. Not allow themselves to be emotionally manipulated. Listen to what they’re saying and see if they’re offering solutions or just being angry and righteous.
