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>A lot of the small government rhetoric in the present day United States is actually rooted in racism So is it socially acceptable to hold any typically Republ
by fromthestart 7y ago
>A lot of the small government rhetoric in the present day United States is actually rooted in racism
So is it socially acceptable to hold any typically Republican/right leaning position without being dismissed and smeared as a racist? You don't see a problem with this unnecessarily divisive, racist, hand wavey rhetoric?
What's the point in having any kind of political discussion at all if people are just going to make the bad faith claim that any right leaning policy is a secret dog whistle?
- asveikau 7y agoThe free market thing is useful in the right doses and the right topics, but many people confuse it with their own personal identity and take it much too far, as if it were dogma or religion. In my personal observation, there often seems to be a lot of unaddressed anger involved in that form of extremism. I am not saying this is everybody with such a view. But when somebody goes on a tirade that people deserve to die, go bankrupt, or be denied care to protect margins of some private sector behemoth because taxation is theft ... When the evidence suggests the public sector tends to do a pretty good job at this. Yeah, there is something a little weird going on there.