The overlap, I suspect, is quite large there. The ideal of "racial equality" typically involves creating some type of inequality, based on that baggage they carry.
If snark was intended, well played.
To the Philly speech, what better way to mask the ultimate goal of attracting the southern conservative vote than to first perform "a lot of African-American outreach"?
I would still disagree about the economics of the speech. Yes, it dealt with welfare, which is a government program, so technically that is an economic issue. The excerpt you provided, though, confirms that this was a dog whistle loud enough to be heard by distant packs. Consider:
The trouble is, again, that bureaucracy has them so economically trapped that there is no way they can get away. And they're trapped because that bureaucracy needs them as a clientele to preserve the jobs of the bureaucrats themselves.
That is a tired stereotype, exactly from the same mold as the claim that scientists only pretend to accept AGW as a reality so they can accept "lucrative" research grants. (I'm not saying there aren't members in bureaucracies out there that might embrace that cyclical theory of dependency, only that it seems to be a trope on the right.) Let's further note that to many southern social conservatives, the typical (if not archetypical) welfare recipient is black. Continuing:
I believe that there are programs like that, programs like education and others, that should be turned back to the states and the local communities with the tax sources to fund them, and let the people [applause drowns out end of statement].
Again, while mildly economic, the impetus driving the Civil War itself was right there in that statement.
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Date: 14/10/13 03:37 (UTC)If snark was intended, well played.
To the Philly speech, what better way to mask the ultimate goal of attracting the southern conservative vote than to first perform "a lot of African-American outreach"?
I would still disagree about the economics of the speech. Yes, it dealt with welfare, which is a government program, so technically that is an economic issue. The excerpt you provided, though, confirms that this was a dog whistle loud enough to be heard by distant packs. Consider:
That is a tired stereotype, exactly from the same mold as the claim that scientists only pretend to accept AGW as a reality so they can accept "lucrative" research grants. (I'm not saying there aren't members in bureaucracies out there that might embrace that cyclical theory of dependency, only that it seems to be a trope on the right.) Let's further note that to many southern social conservatives, the typical (if not archetypical) welfare recipient is black. Continuing:
Again, while mildly economic, the impetus driving the Civil War itself was right there in that statement.