“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
White Americans keep telling us they don't give a shit about a healthy nation. They just want to hurt people they don't like. That has been most prominent motivation for the white vote since the country was founded.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida
@Are0h very few people have an appreciation for how deeply ingrained this mentality is. Indeed it still catches me off guard, when I see--in 2018--someone publicly admit they believe there are specific people that "need to be hurt" like this.
What is also disappointing to me is what usually passes as "inclusive" and "progressive" amongst my peers, which amounts to "stop hurting people" and "include people" but goes no further. An example I'm most familiar with is how First Nations are treated.
@msh @Are0h <Sarcasm> Look, everyone knows you can't trust people with the wrong skin color to take care of themselves. Someone else has to do that for them. </Sarcasm> My thing is as a Jewish person. I often find myself as Jewish first, and 'white' when it is beneficial to others (but still Jewish first.).
