re: #126 LudwigVanQuixote

The fact that this rumor is designed to disenfranchise black people while fanning the racist fears of rubes is not lost on GOP strategists. It is also not lost on you or me. However, it is lost on the rubes who begin to think that “where there is smoke, there is fire.”

This blog comment from last year sums it up perfectly:

The right-wing resentment he’s trying to stir up will probably work pretty well among a certain part of the population, ironically those who have been most hurt by the conmen and tricksters of Wall Street.

When Santelli says “those people” are getting a free handout from the government, we all know who he’s talking about. He’s not talking about YOU, white blue collar Joe, he’s talking about the shiftless lazy n***ers who got more government welfare in the form of subprime loans from Freddie and Fannie. It’s them lowlife blacks who are causing our problems, white middle class America! Get the rope!

Same as it always was. Turn the angry mob against the poorest and the least able to defend themselves, while you pick the mob’s pockets.

Has it ever NOT worked in this country?