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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Things White People Don't Like


Talkingpoints Memo has run an really interesting series of letters from voters who turned from the GOP because all the "racist dogwhistling" that went on was not only audible to the essential GOP cracker demographic, but to minorities as well.

Have a read.

It started with this observation:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/wham_bam_thank_you_mitt_1.php

Then this point was made:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/reaping_the_whirlwind_1.php

And then this conclusion:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/11/it_was_the_email_from.php

It's an interesting thread.

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