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Meanwhile, the underclass, 'America's flexible labor force' (one must be pretty flexible to get screwed in some of the positions we are asked to), or whatever you choose to call the unwashed throngs mucking around down here at the bottom of the national labor tier, are nevertheless politically potent, if sufficiently taunted and fed enough bull@!$%#. Just look at the way we showed up in force during the 2000 elections, hyped up on inchoate anger and ready to be deployed as liberal-ripping pit bulls by America's ultra-conservative political machinery. Snug middle-class liberals were stunned. Could that many people actually be supporting Anne Coulter's call for the jailing of liberals, or Rush Limbaugh's demand for the massive, forced psychiatric detention of Democrats? Or, more recently, could they honestly believe President Obama's proposed public healthcare plan would employ 'death panels' to decide who lives and who dies? Conservatives cackled with glee, and dubbed them the only real Americans.
Bitter Tales from the Massive White Underclass in Joe Bageant's "Redneck" Memoir
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For awhile now I've been wondering why so many disadvantaged people vote GOP. The author of this book, "Rainbow Pie, A Redneck Memoir" attempts to explain some of it. It has been obvious to many of us that this 'underclass' is being manipulated but what is surprising is the extent of it. Perhaps they don't mind being 'rabble' to support the lifestyles of millionaires. I used to say that in jest but it might just be true. It is difficult not to wonder why I and other liberals should worry about their state of existence in this country when they aren't bothering themselves to worry about it. In the end, though, I have a hard time living with their choices for our government. The GOP is interested only in the very wealthy. They offer solicitous views on social issues as a sop to the social underclass which holds dear things like traditional marriages and lifestyles.
It shouldn't be this easy for the republicans to manipulate such a large segment of society into helping them achieve their selfish ends.
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