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Quoting @sarahkendzior ...Today the attack on the poor is no longer cloaked in ideology—it is ideology itself. This ideology is not shared by most Americans, but
Excerpt From: "The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America" by Sarah Kendzior.
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Excerpt From: "The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America" by Sarah Kendzior.
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by those seeking to transform the Republican Party into, as former GOP operative Mike Lofgren describes it, “an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.”These are the people who have decided that poor children should be
denied food as a result of elected officials wanting poor people to have health care. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw.
Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
I see some say that this is not new....and sure it was written/posted October 4, 2013.......but....is it not still true?
Pretty prescient @sarahkendzior ......
More from @sarahkendzior ..In many U.S. schools, a child who cannot come up with lunch money is expected to go hungry. In Texas, a twelve-year-old’s lunch was thrown in the trash because he could not come up with the 30 cents to pay for it.
Excerpt From: "The view from flyover
Excerpt From: "The view from flyover
