Republican Voter Suppression!

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Reading these posts have made me a little depressed.

I read earlier a comment on how the situation in America is no better than what they had back home, and they won't appreciate it here because they're about to get spoiled. Firstly, that's an assumption that's likely wrong. Secondly, who are you to say that only YOU are entitled to these benefits, that these illegal immigrant "things" better work like dogs? You sound like a slave trader complaining about the North. Your thoughts here are quite dangerous. Also, let's not get all righteous and pretend you've never been given anything by the government. I think that's the ultimate folly of conservative supporters, who feel they've earned everything entirely on their own, without any support. That's what Obama was trying to say with his comment, before conservatives took him out of context and even edited his video, creating an entire campaign slogan on "You didn't build that"

The fact is, we're all human beings. Whether you're Mitt living off daddy's millions, a middle class kid living in a suburb, a child born to crack addicts, or an immigrant living in squalor dreaming for a piece of the American Dream. Why are two of these people accepted (and showered with benefits) and two of them are thrown aside, forced to live off scraps?

If you were born to any kind of middle class american family, you should be eternally grateful for what you have. You've won the lottery, the vast majority of the world will never get what you are essentially guaranteed to get. Stop pretending your life was so hard, I can almost guarantee you it wasn't. My last 4 years in China have really opened my eyes in this respect. I think there are many (myself included) who don't truly understand poverty. Sure we learn about it, but to really comprehend what suffering people go through is so foreign (hah) to us.

For the very few who have come up from poverty (and wow, that number is so small), try to find one who's a true conservative. You'll have a hard time. That's because they understand how much harder it was for them, how the deck was constantly stacked against them, and see the injustice in that. The majority of these people are quite liberal and generous to the lower class.

Why don't you go back and look at the constitution? The bill of rights? America was founded on the principles of equality. Of defending the little guy. Where did we go so wrong?