2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Email from a Republican Friend [View all]brush
(61,033 posts)Some white males did actual hard back-breaking work in building the country, but many others cracked whips while unpaid and enslaved Africans build much of it. Some white males stood and "oversaw" grossly underpaid Asian workers break their backs lifting railroad ties and digging mines, or took advantage of immigrant Latinos, also grossly underpaid, as they harvested crops and did other jobs that was beneath the dignity of white males. All that happened, but we can't forget about all of the native Americans that had to be cleared out of the way first. Yeah, white males did all the work building the country alright, in their imaginings, of what they think the country was like back in the day. That's the country these Faux Noise-influenced, non-progressive whites want to take back. Well, the poster is right about one thing. It ain't gonna happen. The Koch brothers and their ilk are using the low info tools/fools and money to try to go back to that time but those days are way over.