Ah but do the poor and underemployed actually vote?
It has often struck me that Americans can be astonishingly philanthropic and
yet are often viciously unsympathetic to the unfortunate. A gross
generalisation, I know and based on anecdotal evidence in the main so don't
beat me up. But I did hear one interesting thesis that it is part of the
historic culture. The Puritans believed that God would make the righteous
prosper. Therefore the poor and indigent must be evil. And that this is a deep
prejudice that is at the unthinking core of the problem. Interesting logic
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 22/12/2010, at 7:25 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> and yet the fools in this state still
> keep electing ultra-rightwing politicians who openly admit that they believe
> the poor and unemployed are scum who do not deserve help.
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