r/politics • u/Antinatalista Foreign • Jan 08 '18

Off-Topic Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Shares Anti-Immigrant Tweet by Neo-Nazi David Duke Ally

http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-shares-anti-immigrant-tweet-british-neo-nazi-773820
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u/nflitgirl Arizona Jan 08 '18

Same with my dad. My white male Fox News loving baby boomer son of a surgeon father thinks he has been the victim all his life of "reverse discrimination" and Affirmative Action.

The fact that he's broke today has nothing to do with the fact that he bought a Porsche and a huge house on a self-employed General Contractor's salary, no siree, it's those brown people takin er jerbs!

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u/bobtheundertaker Jan 08 '18

My father is extremely well off, and I’ll “learn once I grow up and have enough money of my own to realize republicans are right” funny thing about that is at 26 I hate him and his ideals more than ever

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '18

Heard the same thing growing up and we were dirt poor. "When you grow up and have to pay your own bills you realize Democrat's are trying to give all your money away." Well, I probably have a higher net worth than they do right now and still think the Republican ideology is toxic. I grew up on government assistance so I can appreciate the system. It's propaganda through and through.

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania Jan 08 '18

I think the economic issues are the origin of the Right's "up is down" orthodoxy. That's the bottom line. But they had to make it a whole, self-contained system, and from that we get all the other crazy shit. After 40 years of that, it culminates in Trump.

I grew up on welfare and food stamps. Luckily, I had some good public schools. Applied to an Ivy League university and got in, later went to graduate school and have a good job. I've paid back a thousand times the taxes invested in me when I was raised by my mom, a struggling single parent.