re: #24 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I thikn there’s this naive belief if you just promise economic populism then all the people who have voted GOP before will just hop on board. It’s just not true.

Yeah, it’s part-and-parcel of the neo-Marxian view of the world as a place where all men act rationally on their economic interests. Why discriminate against a black guy at a lunch counter when all that does is reduce the amount of money your soda shop makes?

In a rationalist world, racism would disappear as the economic pie is more equally distributed. We do not live in that world.