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shergald

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Fri Oct-06-06 09:49 AM
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22. THIS IS THE CORE of what we are as Americans?

Not since Reagan, it is not. Republicanism is based on economic and cultural divisions. Reagan began with pitting Blacks against whites, and then subsequently, rich against poor, deregulation, praise of the wealthy, the justification of inequality, and all the rest, until Bush-Rove, who got the Evangelicals into the same act of demonizing the lazy poor and praising the "have-mores." The CORE shifted.

And what have Democrats done about it? I'm not seeing any Democratic politicians or 457s publishing political ads complaining about our high child poverty rate. Have you?

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