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I wish that Facebook gave me a way to like this post 1,000,000 separate times. http://ift.tt/1gJoQcx “This photo came from ‘Being Liberal’ on Facebook. My friend posted it with some comments about how problematic it is for liberals to denigrate the rural poor who are then scooped up by the republican party. But I am going to be waaaay more harsh. I am so tired of liberal/democratic/progressive classism. “What is your evidence that the democratic party is so great for poor people? You know who are in prison right now? Poor people. You know who put a whole lot of them there? Democrats like Bill Clinton, ‘the incarceration president.’ When one of the political parties suggests dismantling the prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex, you let me know. . . . The truth is that liberal, ‘educated’ people need the low-class, ignorant hick meme. So long as they exist to denigrate, nobody has to acknowledge that racism, classism, and sexism are systemic and will require a complete upheaval of the systems that give so many liberals the privileges they currently enjoy. . . . Our problems are not going to be resolved through party politics. They sure as hell aren’t going to be resolved by shitting all over people you have never met. In fact, I would think a prerequisite to democracy would be actually speaking to the other people involved. . . .” ~Melanie S. Pinkert