A sure sign of fear mongering is putting words in other people’s mouths to incite suspicion and hatred against a certain group through the use of propaganda. It is nearly guaranteed that when fear mongering with racial propaganda comes to light, it is certain that Republicans are investing in racial divisiveness for political expediency.---Rmuse
If that is what Brooks was doing with his "war on whites" rhetoric, then I'm against it. However, there's a lot of truth to what Brooks is saying.
This doesn't deny that Rmuse is making some valid points. He points out that to cut these programs will hurt poor white people. Sure. But that is hardly a reason for their continuance as permanent part of the economic landscape. What GOP'ers like to say is that they are against dependency, which is good. We shouldn't have such a dependency on federal largesse. But what the GOP'ers don't advocate is an honest to goodness alternative to leftwing big government dependence programs, like food stamps.
For that, I have suggested a return to the past. Let's bring back homesteading. The government owns millions of acres of land. They can help poor people become independent and help the treasury at the same time, if they would just help get people out of the cities and back on the farm.
People are being herded into the big cities just like sheep. They become dependent and fearful of losing their government benefits. This is a perfect way to agitate them and the Democrats do that well---as this article demonstrates. It is a dependable voting block for them. All they have to do is to say that the GOP wants to take away their "rice bowl" and that's all it takes to get the people to go out to the polls and vote the Dems back in. Thus, they will NEVER advocate a program that will reduce this dependency.
Too bad the GOP won't think of this. But one GOP'er did---Abe Lincoln.
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