Great essay written by a billionaire Dem

[JCanete]

78. That isn't accurate. The lack of ecnonomic justice absolutely reinforces social injustice.

I'm surprised you would make the case otherwise. People use economic disparity and poverty and how it can fall along racial lines AS an indicator of human worth. People in power have long used their media to reinforce the idea that people of color are stealing taxpayer money through social programs, and that immigrants are coming to take their jobs. And when otherness isn't used to scapegoat, it is still used to distract, for instance W's campaign about the sanctity of marriage.

It's true as you say, that racism reinforces social injustice, but that social injustice is used to reinforce that racism for the very fact that there is value in doing so. It isn't just that bigotry is being exploited, it is being amplified and nourished as a means to continue on with robbery of the commons, middle class, poor, etc.

Republicans win because we don't call out their agenda. We pretend too often that they are ideologically motivated and not entirely bought and paid for, selling an agenda that is to the benefit of their biggest benefactors. We make the utterly ridiculous claim that we are going to go there and work across the aisle. Fucking really? With these guys? Its not a thing. That's not a real position worth entertaining. Republicans win because we tie our hands behind our back by taking a portion of the money they take. It entirely inoculates them from the criticism. Republicans win because we play their game and instead of calling their distraction for what it is, we rail against their voters.