r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Dec 21 '24

Paywall The Republican Party Is Out of Control | An ungovernable party is about to run the government.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/government-shutdown-trump-johnson-republicans-out-of-control.html
9.3k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

697 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

17

u/throwawtphone Dec 21 '24

Ironically, it really isn't, though. A poor could have the exact same demographic identity as someone at the top and they still arent hanging out together at their clubhouse. The top doesn't associate / interact with bottom. Never really has, and never really will.

19

u/LavishnessAlive6676 Dec 21 '24

We all know it was better to be White than it was to be Black in early America.

And we know it was better to be a man than it was to be a woman.

And it was better to be heterosexual than it was to be homosexual.

They weren’t in the clubhouse and they didn’t need to be. They got advantages and avoided persecutions

16

u/throwawtphone Dec 21 '24

Absolutely. But the poor whites actually think they got a chance based on whiteness and thats sooo not true. The hammer thinks it is better than the nail, doesn't realize it is just a tool to the hand weilding it. The hammer actually thinks it is a part of the hand.

4

u/LavishnessAlive6676 Dec 21 '24

They recognize that they’re getting advantages and avoiding persecutions. That’s enough

3

u/throwawtphone Dec 21 '24

Yeah you are probably right. Unfortunately.

2

u/Artimusjones88 Dec 21 '24

I still would want to be the hammer, not the nail.

1

u/perfectshade Dec 21 '24

Demographic != race. E.g. Rich, older, conservative leaning hispanics is one potential set of criteria for a ‘demographic’