You think better of them than I do. I think that many of them want exactly this, as they believe that they will be the ones living in the mansions.
I’ve seen that same attitudes in Jamaica. The wealthy (who got wealthy due to luck, inheritance, corruption or hard work, ALL believe that they got there by hard work alone, and that the poor are just lazy.
Sorry for being a few days behind in the news(*), but this story astounded me.
The Florida Family Association (FFA) has condemned TLC’s show “All-American Muslim” (and caused several companies to drop sponsership of the show) because:
Presumably FFA would have objected if the show depicted Muslims advocating terror; it also objects that it depicts Muslims who do not depict terror. :dubious:
I apologize to good-spirited Republicans, if such exist, for posting the story in this thread. It does seem a good guess, however, that FFA does not align with the Democratic Party. 
(* - I saw the story on Jon Stewart’s Dec 13 show. Another fun segment ridiculed Gingrich’s insistence that Blacks are lazy for any work but pimping and prostitution.)
Admittedly, should the time come when the majority-poor rise up against the wealthy, pillaging, rioting, burning and stealing, that indeed could be described as doing “something to improve their situation.” Let the free-market rule!
In additional fun Constitutional news, I recently poked fun at Rick Perry’s pledge to cut Congress’ pay and send them home, should he be elected President - even though the President has no Constitutional authority to do so. Not to be outdone, Newt Gingrich is throwing the judicial branch out of the Big 3.
There’s a name for a national leader who can just do things by fiat, ignoring decisions he doesn’t agree with and acting without regard to those pesky checks-and-balances things and Constitutional limits. It’s not President, though … hmmm, what is that type of leader called, anyway? Tater-something?
That isn’t ignorance, that’s strategery. The kind of voter they are appealing to gets all wet when you act like a tough guy who’s going to apply simple, no-nonsense, common sense solutions! They are the kind of people who believe that simple and common sense solutions can dissolve complex and intricate problems. And to quote The Master, there isn’t anything wrong with that except that it just ain’t so.
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” –George W. Bush
It’s practically a plank in the GOP platform.
This one does belong i this thread, if only for the caricature of Newt:
Night of the Living Newt from The Boston Phoenix:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/131315-night-of-the-living-newt/
I don’t know if this is a stupid idea, but it’s fairly evil:
Censoring is from the article.
I can definitively state that assassinating the president and his children is a stupid idea.
Well yeah, but is it a political idea or a general bleat of racism.
This was my favorite part:
Is that a plank in the Tea Party platform?
I think it’s the framing material, the siding and the foundation.
I like how he didn’t mention the monkey children part.
I wonder what he told the Secret Service when they paid him a visit?
Hopefully they sent some black secret service agents. 
Meh. Town councilman is already pretty goddamn low on the totem pole, but a guy who didn’t even make it there ? He’s a nobody. And an asshole, but then there’s no shortage of them ; if we had to mention every asshole with an assholish opinion ITT, the hamsters would explode.
An “assholish opinion” is something like being against same sex marriage. Calling for the murder of a man and his children goes a wee bit beyond an “assholish opinion”.
But the point stands; it wouldn’t be right to attribute every assholish (or beyond) act of asshattery (or beyond) committed by every low-level and unsuccessful Democrat to the party at large.
Give 'em their own thread!
This is true. I just saw it and thought it was worth posting here, but on reflection he isn’t important enough to be newsworthy.
Apparently, Gingrich has decided he doesn’t NEED certain people’s votes…
I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I was… stunned, that a politician would give such an answer in this day and age. Very likely Bachmann, Perry and Santorum would have pretty much the same answer.
Yeah, that seems like a new low. That councilman Manson from above is a nobody, but Gingrich is the fucking leader of the GOP candidates for president right now.
I would love to visit some of these assholes in 20 or 30 years, when gay marriage is legal nationwide and ask them what they would have told themselves if they could travel back in time. Would they be like George Wallace and say it was a mistake? Or keep to their ignorance?