What is the Republican party offering them, that makes this all acceptable?
The only insight I have comes from conversations with my stepmother. She doesn't agree with the pro-religion, anti-science, and anti-women aspects of the current version of the Republican party, but she is rich and white and privileged, and sees anyone who even suggests that maybe, just maybe, the rich ought to pay their fair share in taxes as a commie pinko socialist who wants to take all her money away and give it to undeserving poor (brown) people.
The thing that terrifies her the most is the idea that all humans are equal. You should have heard her back in 2004 ranting about how Obama was a socialist who wanted to "level the country." I asked, "Level it with what? A steamroller?" She said, "No, no, he wants to make everyone equal," like equality was the single most horrible thing she could imagine. And when I asked her why that was such a horrible idea, she explained quite earnestly how god had created some (read: white) people to be better than others so that they could be leaders and caretakers of the world, and that equality for all was against the natural order of the universe and would bring about disaster.
That was the point where I decided never to discuss politic with my stepmother ever again, because how the HELL do you even begin to have a logical discussion about politics with someone who believes in divine right?
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:43 pm (UTC)The only insight I have comes from conversations with my stepmother. She doesn't agree with the pro-religion, anti-science, and anti-women aspects of the current version of the Republican party, but she is rich and white and privileged, and sees anyone who even suggests that maybe, just maybe, the rich ought to pay their fair share in taxes as a commie pinko socialist who wants to take all her money away and give it to undeserving poor (brown) people.
The thing that terrifies her the most is the idea that all humans are equal. You should have heard her back in 2004 ranting about how Obama was a socialist who wanted to "level the country." I asked, "Level it with what? A steamroller?" She said, "No, no, he wants to make everyone equal," like equality was the single most horrible thing she could imagine. And when I asked her why that was such a horrible idea, she explained quite earnestly how god had created some (read: white) people to be better than others so that they could be leaders and caretakers of the world, and that equality for all was against the natural order of the universe and would bring about disaster.
That was the point where I decided never to discuss politic with my stepmother ever again, because how the HELL do you even begin to have a logical discussion about politics with someone who believes in divine right?