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how ironic that the proletariat would vote this sort of thing back into existence because they're mad at mexicans and gay people
They are not mad, it's a typical "divide and conquer" strategy successfully imposed by the ruling class. Instead of fighting together for socialism, people are divided into mutually antagonistic bullshit groups like racist, gender, nationalist, religious...
Yep.
Everyone who is focusing on left vs. right at the expense of up vs. down is part of the problem.
It's a shame they keep being rewarded for it in their social circles.
Unfortunately some sections of the working class materially benefit from the subjugation of other sections of the proletariat. Labor movements in the imperial core have a history of ignoring the unique nature of oppression in the periphery because that extremely exploitative labor makes their lifestyle of overconsumption possible. This extends to that section of the imperial periphery that migrates to the core in order to find more acceptable waged labor but are still paid significantly reduced sums, overworked, and threatened by their immimgration status. Their labor feeds us and not only couldn't we survive without them but the specific oppression related to their immigration status that allows for sharper forms of exploitation is what gives native proletariat the ability to eat labor intensive foor for cheap. Essentially, these people use racism to live at peace with their relationship to exploitative race relations that they benefit from. Its not because they are stupid or don't understand, they don't wish to understand or look.