the GOP is racist because exploitative capitalism requires a victim class, which makes it more racist, which makes it more exploitative, etc
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just evil thing reinforcing evil thing, over and over again, and that's a large part of why the party has become so nihilistic
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like, are we supposed to be surprised that a political philosophy whose core belief is that selfishness is morally justifiable would go bad?
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no, because it was poisoned from the start and non-Americans need to understand: this isn't uniquely American either
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America maybe has it a bit worse than other countries because America has its roots as a colonial nation
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and the purpose of colonialism is to *create* an exploited class based (almost always) on race, so America had this sort of baked in
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but nihilistic conservatism is a thing that is growing in other countries as well at an alarming rate
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in particular, the past couple months of news in Canada should dispel any smugness we might have about this
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the massed rage at Omar Khadr's settlement, racism towards First Nations peoples getting more virulent by the day
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it's all the same thing, just less organized because we've spent less time refining it, but it is most assuredly developing that way
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I mean Canada is just the colonies with less money (and therefore slaves) to start out with
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Hence elites didn't find it profitable to join in on a big war to not have to pay taxes
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