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In reply to the discussion: Regarding "Snow White" Bernie Sanders [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,614 posts)For a lot of obvious reasons like the black Americans that would be helped would also improve their communities, ie, crime, which would also effect incarceration rates. But the same uplifting in the poor white communities (and Asian, Middle Eastern, East Indian, native) would also diffuse a lot of the mislaid anger towards minorities by those poor white folk that always vote against their best interests. If their lives also improved, it would help to diffuse much of that anger that veers towards racism. Even just less angst in all communities, less domestic violence, for example, where lack of money is the root cause. All of the obvious and the not so obvious results of helping to make those that feel hopeless now, to once again feel they are contributing to society, is good for not just the economic well being of a nation, but the emotional and psychological health of a nation. To the point where those new young Americans growing up, are less inclined to succumb to their parents racist opinions if they themselves have not as much to complain about.
