Republicans want more poverty and crime

[Leather_Lesbian]

Republicans want more poverty and crime


The Republican Party is running a huge scam right now, similar to the one they ran in 1992 when President George H.W. Bush was setting up phony cocaine busts across the street from the White House having achieved his position by running his infamous Willie Horton ad four years earlier.


Here's the essential formula:

Increase levels of inequality in the country to the point where poverty and homelessness are a crisis.

Do this with huge, trillion-dollar tax cuts for rich people so they get massively richer, while gutting social safety net programs and supports for working-class people like unions. Poverty and homelessness increase, which produces an increase in crime, and that freaks out middle-class people—the majority of voters.

Then, build your political identity and campaign around being "tough on crime" while completely ignoring the fact that the poverty you helped create is largely responsible for much of that crime.

Blame the poverty-driven crime, instead, on "welfare" programs Democrats have put into place to try to soften the blow of the poverty caused by Republican policies. Get elected, create more poverty; rinse, wash, and repeat.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-econom...l&utm_campaign=7226&recip_id=560588&list_id=1

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

I first started paying attention to politics during the Reagan Administration. Reagan dramatically increased poverty in this country by cutting programs that helped the poor and the working class, waging a war against labor unions, taxing social security benefits, demonizing the poor, making it sounds is if poverty was a "choice" and that all poor people were lazy and dishonest.

This was also when the Republican's "War on drugs" was in full swing.

Increasing poverty and demonizing the poor is still a big part of the Republican methodology, however, I never before connected the dots and saw the Republican strategy of increasing poverty and crime as a tool for winning elections.

But, the author of this article makes a strong case for that argument.

 

[JackLuis]

Start by decreasing the crime in DC by hanging a few Repug's Decorating the streetlamps with Trumpists would be a start! MItch first!!!

 

[Cubantripod]

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This was also when the Republican's "War on drugs" was in full swing.

Prior to the last election, the biggest beneficiary of the war on drugs is the police unions that have been finger fucking the Dems under the table, while the Dems. yelled "racist" at everything. Police budgets have ballooned because of the war on drugs and all the military surplus vehicles and supplies they've received.

 

[WillJ8787]

Republicans want more poverty and crime


The Republican Party is running a huge scam right now, similar to the one they ran in 1992 when President George H.W. Bush was setting up phony cocaine busts across the street from the White House having achieved his position by running his infamous Willie Horton ad four years earlier.


Here's the essential formula:

Increase levels of inequality in the country to the point where poverty and homelessness are a crisis.

Do this with huge, trillion-dollar tax cuts for rich people so they get massively richer, while gutting social safety net programs and supports for working-class people like unions. Poverty and homelessness increase, which produces an increase in crime, and that freaks out middle-class people—the majority of voters.

Then, build your political identity and campaign around being "tough on crime" while completely ignoring the fact that the poverty you helped create is largely responsible for much of that crime.

Blame the poverty-driven crime, instead, on "welfare" programs Democrats have put into place to try to soften the blow of the poverty caused by Republican policies. Get elected, create more poverty; rinse, wash, and repeat.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-econom...l&utm_campaign=7226&recip_id=560588&list_id=1

Nice post....I agree. This is exactly what happened with what used to be referred to as "the projects". Repubs actively attempt to create failures or at least they sit in their hands....then sweep in with the "tough on crime" and "welfare queens" talk to convince gullible folks to vote for them.

 

[nowisthetime]

School and foster care pipelines to prisons. It works and continues to work to feed the Prison and Military Industrial Complexes.

THIS!

Absolutely, after all, they are the party of greed and corruption.

 

[srgreene]

Republicans want more poverty and crime


The Republican Party is running a huge scam right now, similar to the one they ran in 1992 when President George H.W. Bush was setting up phony cocaine busts across the street from the White House having achieved his position by running his infamous Willie Horton ad four years earlier.


Here's the essential formula:

Increase levels of inequality in the country to the point where poverty and homelessness are a crisis.

Do this with huge, trillion-dollar tax cuts for rich people so they get massively richer, while gutting social safety net programs and supports for working-class people like unions. Poverty and homelessness increase, which produces an increase in crime, and that freaks out middle-class people—the majority of voters.

Then, build your political identity and campaign around being "tough on crime" while completely ignoring the fact that the poverty you helped create is largely responsible for much of that crime.

Blame the poverty-driven crime, instead, on "welfare" programs Democrats have put into place to try to soften the blow of the poverty caused by Republican policies. Get elected, create more poverty; rinse, wash, and repeat.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-econom...l&utm_campaign=7226&recip_id=560588&list_id=1

What a completely stupid comment, derived from a completely stupid article. It and you show an utter inability to marshal a coherent, let alone cogent, argument. You undoubtedly consider yourself sufficiently wise that you know how to organize a complex society. Civilization is indeed in peril.

I will take simply one aspect of the article:

"programs for the mentally ill were mostly nuked by Reagan and have never recovered."

De-institutionalization was long a pet project of the left. In addition to budgetary considerations, under Reagan's (and conservatives in general) notion of federalism, such matters are the legitimate province of the states, not the federal government. Moreover, the Reagan administration did provide block grants to the states to at least partially offset the effects of his policy of placing this burden on the states (where, under our Constitution, it more properly resides than in Washington, DC).


That said, I would agree we have gone overboard with the deinstitutionalization process. But the whole subject is one worthy of a great deal more consideration than you show any capacity to give it- you seem to want to trivialize it for partisan advantage. Just for starters, taking away a person's liberty is not something to be done lightly, and mentally ill people have frequently been unjustly placed in institutions.

Of course, such nuanced understandings of a complex dynamic are beyond your ken.

 

[YDB95]

Moreover, the Reagan administration did provide block grants to the states to at least partially offset the effects of his policy of placing this burden on the states

Which meant the states were free to spend the money on things that had only the most tenuous connections to their stated purpose, and didn't necessarily help at all. That's not even touching on Reagan's own record of cutting funding for institutions in California when he was governor.