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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:21 PM May 2017

Only The RICH AND PRODUCTIVE Have Right To America's Benefits Based On GOP Rhetoric.

Every day some GOP legislator from local to national comes up with some absurd and insane statement that reveals the true nature of the GOP. Unless you are part of the rich or productive elite like in the Middle Ages, you are NOT entitled to anything.

During the Middle Ages only the monarchs, nobles and there immediate benefactors were entitled to a decent life. They had the better food, the better waters, the nicer homes and just about any other luxury available at the time. The serfs were only around to provide those luxuries and nothing else.

We see the same attitude in today's GOP. The GOP depends on the serfs who support them to stay in power.

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Only The RICH AND PRODUCTIVE Have Right To America's Benefits Based On GOP Rhetoric. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis May 2017 OP
Non wealthy Americans are cursed by (republican) God and lazy useless eaters workinclasszero May 2017 #1
"Productive" being a very fluid term gratuitous May 2017 #2
A book I am reading argues this attitude dates back to the founding of this country- rzemanfl May 2017 #3
They have a term for it in The Man in the High Castle exboyfil May 2017 #4
"Rich and Productive"?? I submit to you that the Working Poor are THE MOST productive. WTH do you WinkyDink May 2017 #5
Wealthy AND productive... 2naSalit May 2017 #6
Like A Jazz Theme They Replay That Same Tune In Every Way 24/7. TheMastersNemesis May 2017 #7
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
1. Non wealthy Americans are cursed by (republican) God and lazy useless eaters
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:27 PM
May 2017

Book of Rand(republican bible), chapter one, verse one.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. "Productive" being a very fluid term
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:32 PM
May 2017

For example, I've seen that the holy and mighty Job Creators don't actually have to create any jobs to earn or maintain their elevated status.

rzemanfl

(29,554 posts)
3. A book I am reading argues this attitude dates back to the founding of this country-
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:46 PM
May 2017

by stealing it from the people who already had it. The difference is between "liberty" the idea that some people have earned a higher status (and deserve liberty) and other people who deserve lesser status all the way down to enslavement. Versus the idea of "freedom" which everyone should have and is born with.

The book is American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2015) by Colin Woodward.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
4. They have a term for it in The Man in the High Castle
Tue May 2, 2017, 01:14 PM
May 2017

Useless eaters. That is the term the Nazi controlled Eastern U.S. uses to refer to anyone who is not an economic means of production.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
5. "Rich and Productive"?? I submit to you that the Working Poor are THE MOST productive. WTH do you
Tue May 2, 2017, 01:16 PM
May 2017

think the serfs were doing, playing Tiddly-winks?

2naSalit

(86,323 posts)
6. Wealthy AND productive...
Tue May 2, 2017, 01:16 PM
May 2017

has to be either wealthy or both wealthy AND productive... I've been productive all my life but since I am not wealthy, I don't count as "worthy" of anything but ridicule and disdain... got it.

Hey Randians, go take a flying F''k at a rolling donut you F'ing F'ers. Better yet, please just drop dead for the sake of the planet.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
7. Like A Jazz Theme They Replay That Same Tune In Every Way 24/7.
Tue May 2, 2017, 10:20 PM
May 2017

The meme of my OP is the same under beat they play in so many ways. It is actually racial prejudice code that has been going on long before Nixon. Yet no one actually calls them on it and shoves it back down their throat.

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