Erick Erickson exposes the racism of the GOP's self-sabotaging idiots

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"What I explained to [CNN and NPR] and what I think the media misses is that many of the people the media would claim Mitt Romney described as 'victims' weren’t who Mitt Romney was speaking about. And those people intrinsically know it. They may technically fall into the category Mitt Romney described as government dependent victims, but they know he’s not talking about them. He’s talking about the people they also are talking about."

-Erick Erickson, blogging about his turns on NPR and CNN this morning

"Those people."

Anyone unclear on the concept, now that Mr. Erickson has so kindly and explicitly reveals, almost certainly unintentionally, the everything-but-overtly-stated "fuck the brown folks" mindset of the people who actively vote against their own best interest just because, to do otherwise, might help one of those other people?

Because, by shit, someone may have to cling to their God and guns, but they ain't helping some black or Mexican kid get a better shot at the American dream than they took when they had the chance... and they ain't gonna give their own kids that better shot, either.

It's only uphill both ways when you're too stupid to crawl out of the ditch you're wallowing in.

Comments

[diablaxmachina.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, you mean he wasn't talking about half of all Americans who are at some financial disadvantage....just the portion of that 47% who are brown? Well then, of COURSE I'll vote for him even though I'm poor and white!

Gah. I can't stop flinching. I seriously hope reasonable people are seeing the GOP for what it's become.

Btw, have you watched The Newsroom? It's like balm to my cynical soul.

[feyrieprincess.livejournal.com]

All the fiscal and healthcare decisions in the world pale in comparison to the central issue for me - the fact that the legislation of my BODY is at stake if Romney is elected.

That is deeply terrifying to me.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Nope. I don't have HBO or whatever fancy channel it airs on, and, frankly, don't care enough to make the time to watch it.

I carve out 45 minutes to watch Doctor Who with CS via skype, but otherwise, my television more or less remains dark unless I turn on some football for something to stare blankly at while I have a snack on my couch before going to bed or whatever. I even missed most of Shark Week, and don't know when Mythbusters' next season is.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I was having a conversation on twitter with a former coworker, and we were prioritizing which of the main three debate topic issues - social, economic, foreign policy - was the most important to each of us. He said economics, since it will inform the other two; I said social, for exactly the same reason.

As a sort of short-hand, a candidate who is pro-choice is more likely to make decisions towards other things that I am more apt to find palatable. Writ large, that stance says, "You have personal sovereignty," which is vastly preferable to "Big Brother knows best how you should live your life."