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BaronChocula

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14. Don't forget how Reagan

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 08:30 PM

Jul 2019

contributed divisiveness to the forum. Reagan loved the New Deal and Big Government until those New Deal programs were extended to black people. That's when Reagan made his shift, portraying Government as the culprit that took dollars away from hard-working Whites and wantonly distributed it to idle, lazy Blacks. It's how we ended up with Tea Partiers (white, of course) on the dole blaming government spending on minority recipients of the same benefits they were receiving. The basis of the GOP and racism are hypocrisy. It's why they work so well together.

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