http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/15/skin-in-the-game/
Meet “Skin In The Game.”
You’ve surely head the phrase by now: “Skin in the game.” It’s the right’s new front in their war on the poor. For the last couple of years, that phrase has been percolating through right-wing thought and it’s starting to become a major talking point. It is, of course, the same class warfare that Republicans, Fox News and AM Hate Radio constantly accuse liberals of waging.The idea is that if you pay income taxes (the skin in the game), then you should have more rights than people (aka the poor) that do not. After all, they’re just freeloading off of you, the honest, god-fearing, real American that loves mom and apple pie. The poor have no skin in the game so they don’t deserve to have a say in how they should be treated. Like nail fungus if Paul Ryan were to have his way.But don’t you call it class warfare!Not content to simply demonize the poor, the right has also started to quietly reintroduce the idea that only property owners should have rights. Specifically, the right to vote. That way, even much of the middle class will be removed from the electorate. Because nothing says “freedom” and “democracy” like only letting those with money vote:I wonder how long it would take for the right to move from “You don’t have any skin in the game” to “You don’t have ENOUGH skin in the game?” What do you mean you only own ONE house?! You don’t have a vested interest in your community until you own three or more!
this is a 18th century example of class warfare and like everything else the first ones to come stole everything land, inventions, laws and religion and still follow that template created by the founding guys.
they have no ideas because they never ave whatever it was it was another who created it, that is why IMO they got so in a tizzy when they took Pres. out of context and ran with it, "you didn't build that", hit home.
Taking the long view.
The monied interests that control the right-wing play a long game when it comes to politics. They know that relying on the rapidly shrinking “angry old white man” vote is a lost cause. But they still need to be able to get people to vote against their own economic interests. Playing to bigotry is reaching the point of diminished returns so it’s time to resort to openly condemning the poor.And what better way to marginalize the poor stripping them of their right to vote? Voter ID laws are the first volley and I fully expect it to get worse. Look for the rhetoric of “skin in the game” to grow louder as the Republican base dwindles. The GOP’s motto going forward is going to be “If you can’t win at the ballot box, take the box and go home.”
there is always an ulterior motive when the right wing openly acts out of a position of superiority with impunity, i call it the audacity of arrogance. we need to recognize we don't so much have to prosecute the provide all the evidence for us, it's in the media and on video tape stupid, we just need to archive their past rhetoric and acts then file a civil claim for breach of contract and malfeasance in the extreme
