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In reply to the discussion: An Overheard Conversation at the MSP Airport ... [View all]rfranklin
(13,200 posts)It played right into their racism and fear of newly empowered African Americans. Meanwhile, it was Romney and his pals shipping the jobs overseas. Added to that was the "welfare queen" stories to explain why they were paying higher taxes and ostensibly getting nothing for it while it was hoovered up by the Pentagon.
That emotional ploy has easily translated into that black guy in the WH is screwing us to give our tax money to brown people. We gotta get a white guy back in there to put white guys on top again, they believe. Somehow they forget that things were going of a cliff into the abyss at the end of Bush's term...another white guy who promised that things would be hunkydory if you just gave more tax breaks to the billionaries. They just can't connect the dots.