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Some Revealing Responses to My Open Letter to Black Evangelicals

johnm h Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 9:55 AM
Republicans and democrats alike seem to believe that Republicans favor the rich and democrats favor redistribution and a hand up for the poor. Wrong. Centralized powerful government that determines through tax loopholes, subsidies, regulations, and mandates will always favor the most powerful organized interests. What could be more obvious? It is not an accident that the super rich support democrats and establishment Republicans, as do CEO's of the biggest corporations. The conservative base in contrast are small businessmen, blue collar and skilled tradesmen.
johnm h Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 9:59 AM
What does this have to do with race? Lots. The racism that still resides in the democratic party now contains both white and black racists. That's how demagoguery works. In centralized but homogeneous societies the demagoguery leans even further toward class warfare because racism doesn't work, but they still buy off the poor, dumb them down , oppose upward mobility, while they centrally control the economy in the name of the poor. It's not a conspiracy it's just how it works out for those who can bend the system in their favor. Centralization leads to that.
My open letter to my black Christian friends, written out of respect and solidarity, generated an extremely high number of email responses. They ranged from commendation to condemnation, with one email informing me that neither “you nor I are going to alter prophecy, these things are foretold, we have to pray now GOD will get us out of here before masses get destroyed!”

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