Poor whites who vote GOP ARE NOT voting against their own interests

[BigDaddyBuk]

Voting for white supremacy isn't voting against your interest if your value structure starts there.

but even if their values are there, theyre still committing suicide.

in Mississippi the school and health systems are designed to keep Black folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy. together theyre keeping MORE white folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy than Black folks.

though they are voting their beliefs, the implementation and execution of their policies lead directly to a diminished length and quality of life.

 

[Amajorfucup]

Yall didn't read the thread or didn't get it. They aren't hoping to hit a powerball. They just want to make sure you don't.

 

[sammyjax]

Great Twitter thread. Thanks for sharing.

She's dead fucking on too.

 

[sammyjax]

but even if their values are there, theyre still committing suicide.

in Mississippi the school and health systems are designed to keep Black folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy. together theyre keeping MORE white folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy than Black folks.

though they are voting their beliefs, the implementation and execution of their policies lead directly to a diminished length and quality of life.

That's the thing. They don't care.

 

[darth frosty]

EQUALITY IS TOO RISKY FOR THEM!!!

 

[easy_b]

Oh by the way

 

[Better]

Ha.

I said this EXACT shit on here a month ago.

For white supremacy to be sustainable, there must be people willing to sacrifice their own individual happiness.

I've said this before: White people have a pathological need to be in control. If the day ever comes that their system looks like it is truly going to be supplanted - hope and pray they don't have access to any major firepower. They will have a temper tantrum of epic proportions.

That is the difference between us and them. They're in the position they're in, because being in that position means faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more to them then it'll ever mean to us. We're not willing to do ANY AND EVERYTHING to get it. You do realize these are the same people who damn near decimated a whole race of people and enslaved millions of another? Maybe we've been desensitized because of how familiar we are with the history . . .

. . . but that is fucking demonic. No one should want anything that bad, and yet they did and still do.

I guess I can see why some people fail to understand this, tho'. You have to really have the capacity to be objective to understand it. Either that, or share in that sort of pathological mindset.

 

[kain]

They believe if they are suffering, we are living in hell.
That gives them joy to see us powerlessly suffering more than they are.

 

[darth frosty]

 

[November 17]

They do. They just feel like as long as they are poor and WHITE and you are still poor too, they still win. They want whites to control all the resources even if it's just a small percent of them.. they're fine as long as the one percent is all WHITE. If the 1% was all black, they would vote DEM.

This article written in April 2016 attempts to explain their mindset:
http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/

(It was actually posted here before)

 

[mangobob79]

Stop thinking that they aren't willfully voting for this.

Read this entire thread.

FUCKING A+ SPOT ON !

 

[mangobob79]

They do. They just feel like as long as they are poor and WHITE and you are still poor too, they still win. They want whites to control all the resources even if it's just a small percent of them.. they're fine as long as the one percent is all WHITE. If the 1% was all black, they would vote DEM.

THATS WHAT I KEEP TELLING FOLKS, THIS IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND...
....they dont mind feeding their children to the brood as long as the owner of the coop is white

 

[BigATLslim]

Yall didn't read the thread or didn't get it. They are hoping to hit a powerball AND they want to make sure you don't.

You are welcome, however, I understand.

 

[streetdreamer]

THATS WHAT I KEEP TELLING FOLKS, THIS IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND...
....they dont mind feeding their children to the brood as long as the owner of the coop is white

This is a good point. Everyone can tell that a lot of European countries aren't resource rich like every single country in Africa is. But if you look at the deal they made you realize there is no white country that's filled with starving, malnourished, diseased children living in horrid conditions. Sure there are poor white people here and there but there are Asians, Latin American countries, India, Arab, African, Islanders and many more where swaths of their entire population are subjected to dire poverty but not white people. It's like a social contract where if you support white supremacy, we will keep that from happening to our race.

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

That's the thing. They don't care.

Committing suicide is not in the best interest of a person who wants to live.

 

[mangobob79]

They aren't hoping to hit a powerball. They just want to make sure you don't.

Thats all there is to it ! so long as the winner is white and that white winner makes it harder for blacks to win, even if they personally lose, they're fine with it !
cos being white president in America maintains "white privilege" and guarantees them some kinda of trickle down white privilege in this society anyway and thats better than thriving alongside POC.
so in effect they vote for whoever can best keep those neegaz in their place and keep the yoke on our necks the best(and no one does it better than the GOP) even if they gain nothin from it , becos why else would they consistently vote repub knowing fully well they'll receive nothin in return directly?

 

[Spectrum]

but even if their values are there, theyre still committing suicide.

in Mississippi the school and health systems are designed to keep Black folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy. together theyre keeping MORE white folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy than Black folks.

though they are voting their beliefs, the implementation and execution of their policies lead directly to a diminished length and quality of life.

It's extraordinarily stupid. They don't care. They're satisfied with being poor as long as policies (in their mind) impact non-whites negatively more than they perceive them to hurt themselves.

 

[Spectrum]

Thats all there is to it ! so long as the winner is white and that white winner makes it harder for blacks to win, even if they personally lose, they're fine with it !
cos being white , maintains "white privilege" and guarantees them some kinda of trickle down in this society anyway and thats better than thriving alongside POC

When they said pictures of Trump and all-white male crew behind them, they are happy.... even without having a pot to piss in.. order has been restored. America is great again.

 

[Spectrum]

This article written in April 2016 attempts to explain their mindset:
http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/

(It was actually posted here before)

I think I actually posted this on bgol too

 

[Spectrum]

Committing suicide is not in the best interest of a person who wants to live.

They're willing to sacrifice their lives for "whiteness".

 

[kain]

Think of the points being made.
As a POC, how can you ever exist in wealth without bowing to that system of white supremacy?
You can't.
You play the game their way or get eliminated....you get the Bill Cosby treatment.

 

[doug777]

Though they are voting their beliefs, the implementation and execution of their policies lead directly to a diminished length and quality of life.

Not for the ones at the top.

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

They're willing to sacrifice their lives for "whiteness".

while this may be true, it's still against their own best interest.

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

Not for the ones at the top.

but we arent talking about them. we're talking about the ones voting for their own execution while hoping to get the winning white supremacy lottery ticket. they are playing russian roulette with 5 bullets and six chambers.

 

[geechiedan]

but even if their values are there, theyre still committing suicide.

in Mississippi the school and health systems are designed to keep Black folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy. together theyre keeping MORE white folks poor, uneducated and unhealthy than Black folks.

though they are voting their beliefs, the implementation and execution of their policies lead directly to a diminished length and quality of life.

“I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” LBJ

 

[Mello Mello]

Been saying this for a while.

Voting against their own interest is still a vote for their white privilege to take care of them despite the hardship.

White supremacy eats itself from the inside out.

 

[sammyjax]

Committing suicide is not in the best interest of a person who wants to live.

A person who wants to live doesn't commit suicide. That's the point.

Maintaining white supremacy is their interest. If they have to lose a finger or a toe to do it, that's just what it took.

 

[Lexx Diamond]

Well done.


Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20


Propane Jane™ Retweeted AP Politics

Dear White America, you played yourself. #MakeAmericaBrokeAgain

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AP PoliticsVerified account@AP_Politics
House Speaker Paul Ryan is acknowledging "nobody knows" if the sweeping tax cuts Congress is enacting will produce enough economic growth to fend off soaring federal deficits
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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Go ahead and mark Wednesday, December 20, 2017 as the day that the myth of “economic anxiety” as justification for White working class people voting Trump/the @GOP was officially debunked as blatant BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
I wonder if they’re economically anxious this morning, or if they’re still deluding themselves that the @GOP gives a flying fuck about them or their empty wallets...

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Seriously, 57% of White Americans voted Trump (the only demographic to give him a majority) because they allegedly thought he’d make them financially secure. I need to see the math on how many of them will benefit from the #GOPTaxScam. Pencils up.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Also the ignorance and gullibility in question here isn’t just confined to the 57% who voted for this, because a sizable chunk of the 43% who didn’t still grant legitimacy to “economic anxiety” propaganda and think chasing the WWC is imperative (eg Bernie), so welp.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Included in this number are also the scores of White people who think “both parties are the same” and either didn’t vote or voted for Jill/Gary (equal to not voting) b/c letting Russia, the Klan and the oligarchs into the WH was a risk they could afford to take.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Folk don’t like being reminded of these facts, and that’s PRECISELY why I keep doing it. You’re welcome.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
These reminders have unfortunately become infinitely necessary b/c the White majority’s propensity for developing selective amnesia for the GOP’s fiscal malfeasance every single fucking election is DESTROYING AMERICA.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Propane Jane™ Retweeted Propane Jane™

In case you still can’t see the writing on the wall, this is EXACTLY why the fake news cyberattack (foreign and domestic) was visited upon *White people* specifically. The blind trust that comes with tribalism makes the GOP’s theft consensual.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” - LBJ #GOPTaxSham
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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
People need to understand that this socioeconomic self-sabotage keeps occurring repeatedly because the White American majority would rather be robbed blind by the White 1% than align themselves with the majority of people of color to elect Democrats. Equality is too risky.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
A rising tide lifts all boats, which is PRECISELY why non-wealthy White Americans continually vote in majority for the GOP’s austerity. Skin privilege and feigned supremacy are worth more to them than money in the bank, especially when POC still have less than they do.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
I know it makes folk uncomfortable to ponder this thought, but I’m sick and fucking tired of people asking “why do they vote against their self interest” as if maintaining racism as an institution isn’t a self interest or these voters’ primary electoral motivation.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
It’s one thing for them to keep lying to themselves but the rest of us don’t have time to participate in their denial along with them. The WWC hasn’t been duped by the GOP, they are *willful* participants in their own demise.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
These people are intentionally making a habit of finding out who people of color are rallying behind and which party we’re giving our votes to so they can vote the complete fucking OPPOSITE. Learn this basic fact now, y’all.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
NO amount of facts or self-inflicted economic hardship will stop these people from voting GOP for bigotry, misogyny and homophobia’s sake. Give up on that fantasy now.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Also the folk on the left who foolishly think that if shit just gets bad enough for the White majority they’ll wake up one morning and join the multicultural coalition they’ve intentionally avoided for the last FIFTY YEARS need to snap the FUCK out of it. It ain’t happening.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Trust and believe that impoverished White people who live in the reddest of red states and religiously vote Republican are already suffering the dire socioeconomic consequences of their votes, they just don’t give a fuck b/c Whiteness is their sustenance.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
They won’t have a pot to piss in or window to throw it out in Trump’s Amerikkka, just like they didn’t under Reagan and GWB. Predictable eonomic hardship hasn’t stopped them from voting GOP and it never will. That’s the power of hatred.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Let this be yet another lesson that you can’t save people who are too invested in taking other people down to even bother saving themselves. Resistance means knowing when to cut bait and start mobilizing EVERYONE ELSE.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 20
Propane Jane™ Retweeted Propane Jane™

As always... #GOPTaxScam #SouthernStrategy101

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26
When Racism Trumps Socialism https://storify.com/docrocktex26/when-racism-gets-in-socialism… via @docrocktex26
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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
If you don’t believe what I’m saying, just take a look at Alabama. Damn near 50th in the nation on every socioeconomic indicator, but not even that or pedophilia was enough to stop White Alabamans from reflexively voting GOP. Opposing their Black peers is priority number 1.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
They were intent on sending Roy Moore to DC to rubber stamp every single piece of austerity bullshit the GOP concocts, no matter how godawful the consequences would be for them personally.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
None of this is rational or wise, yet American culture persists in exalting the political ideology and voting habits of White voters who routinely make disastrous decisions every election. We glorify shit that should be shunned, then feign shock when it blows up in our faces.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
As such, every election season must necessarily be kicked off in the Whitest American localities (IA, NH) and the slate of pertinent issues is always gleaned from whichever propaganda was most effective on the predominantly White cable news audience.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Propane Jane™ Retweeted Chris Cillizza

Case in point, this wanton bullshit. Nevermind that she won the *popular* vote by ~3 million and has been the most admired woman worldwide more than once, she’s “so unpopular” because she didn’t win the White American majority.

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Chris CillizzaVerified account@CillizzaCNN
Hillary Clinton is historically unpopular. Why? …
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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
94% of Black women didn’t think Hillary was unpopular or that she would’ve been worse than the trash currently occupying the WH, but that doesn’t fit the preferred narrative in White American culture, so

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
It was White American culture that chose to prioritize emails, paid speeches, Benghazi concern trolling and pneumonia above treason, sociopathy, sexual predation and sheer incompetence.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
It is White American culture labeling this #GOPTaxScam a victory for Trump/the GOP despite knowing full well the scale of White poverty and the reality that austerity will do nothing but exacerbate the “economic anxiety” they sensationalized for 2 years straight.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
It is White American culture that wouldn’t rest until it got a copy of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, but is about to let #TreasonousTrump sign this atrocious #GOPTaxScam without ever releasing his fucking tax returns.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Bottom line is White American culture is extremely adept at convincing itself to jump off a cliff, and this is why the GOP wins elections, with or without Russia’s assistance. Nothing will change until we acknowledge this reality.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Nobody gets to keep parroting this “both parties are the same” bullshit when the majority of people of color are voting Democratic and the majority of White people are voting Republican, and America reverts to Jim Crow apartheid *every time* the latter wins.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
The more folk insist on playing dumb and burying their privileged heads in the sand, the more America retreats from its stated ideals and reverts back to all of its original sins. We ignore and deny the impacts of racism and misogyny on our politics at our own peril.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
No one should be surprised that non-stop glorification of White people who were so hateful and ignorant that they wanted to take their country back simply b/c a Black man was running it has resulted in a GOP government intent on destroying everything he/we built.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Propane Jane™ Retweeted Propane Jane™

No one should be surprised that the refusal of White “moderates” to lay down their privilege and join the multicultural Democratic coalition results in GOP victory and maintenance of the discriminatory status quo.

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Replying to @docrocktex26
"Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf…
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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
I’m not saying anything different than what’s already been eloquently stated by MLK, Malcolm X and countless other civil rights activist from over 50 years ago. You know why? Because AIN’T SHIT CHANGED.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
You know why shit ain’t changed?! Because White American culture has convinced itself of its infallibility and superiority to the extent that it can’t even save itself from itself.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
White American culture is so invested in the mythology of the rich White male Republican savior/protector that its political ideology has become akin to prosperity gospel mixed with Stockholm Syndrome. Their socioeconomic outcomes don’t live up to the Great White Hype.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Yet and still we endure the worst excesses of Jim and Jane Crow because American politics is so immersed in White culture that it prioritizes the will of the White majority no matter how detrimental it proves to be for the nation and the world.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Y’all can be certain I won’t stop calling it out no matter how many folk jump in my mentions to say “not all white people”. Until the White majority gets its shit together, our ONLY hope is in our collective recognition that they won’t change and we have to OUTVOTE THEM.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Give up on chasing these racist, sexist dummies who don’t even have sense enough to vote to keep their own fucking healthcare coverage. Focus your time, money, and energy on fighting GOP voter suppression that’s targeted at people of color.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Change the balance of power in our 80+% White male government by actually voting for a Democrat who’s a woman and/or person of color instead of writing in Mickey Mouse or throwing your vote away on 3rd party candidates who won’t win anyway.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Stop treating your vote and elections like this shit is a fucking game when people fought, bled and died for you to be so cavalier. Give a damn about what happens to our country and world for crying out fucking loud.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 21
Left to its own devices, the #GOPTaxScam is what the White American majority has been conditioned to inflict upon itself for the last FIFTY YEARS. Either we stop giving them the *privilege* or we suffer right along with them.

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26 · Dec 22
Propane Jane™ Retweeted Propane Jane™

Remember this the next time you find yourself wondering why “economically anxious” White Americans still vote Republican even though it keeps them financially insecure:

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Propane Jane™@docrocktex26
Replying to @docrocktex26 @Shareblue
European fascism was popular because, for those not persecuted, it was a welfare state https://qz.com/944517 via @qz

 

[mangobob79]

Propane Jane TWITTER THREAD NEEDS TO CANNONIZED SOMEWHERE! IT JUST HITS ALL THE MARKS !

 

[Mentor B]

I traveled to the Cayman islands a few weeks ago and was at a nice resort with a chick...Cayman islands is a spot where real wealthy cacs chill & hide their money in banks. The envious energy was strong especially when they realized we weren't locals. They truly have a sickness.

I'm going there next March.

 

[Spectrum]

while this may be true, it's still against their own best interest.

If you value white supremacy above all else, a vote for the GOP is a vote well-spent.

 

[Spectrum]

A person who wants to live doesn't commit suicide. That's the point.

Maintaining white supremacy is their interest. If they have to lose a finger or a toe to do it, that's just what it took.

Exactly.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

while this may be true, it's still against their own best interest.

Nah it's actually in their interest.
We assume that they are interested in living a normal life, equality, peace, democracy, health etc. they are not.
They disassociate themselves from their reality that's why you can say fake news and the left and liberal and say i dont trust the government while telling people to stand for the flag.
it's all psychotic alien bullshit. they are interested in pain being delivered to black brown yellow and red people.

 

[Louis Koo]

remember when some moron called Trump a blue collar billionaire

 

[slewdem100]

Damn...

"Give up on chasing these racist, sexist dummies who don’t even have sense enough to vote to keep their own fucking healthcare coverage. "