So what? What difference does it make?

Well, lets see-- off the top of my head:

It made a difference to poor people when the food stamp program was gutted and Medicare, student loans, child nutrition, legal services, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children funding was drastically cut.

It made a difference when Daddy Bush was elected due to "Nigger-Bashing" commercials about Willie Horton.

It made a difference in 1980 when Ku Klux Klan leader Bill Wilkinson proudly exclaimed "The Republical Platform reads as if it were written by a Klansman".

It made a difference when federal funding for education between 1979 and 1989 fell from 2.5% of the Federal Budget to 1.7%.

It made a diffenence to family farms when the Reagan/Bush Dept of Agriculture favored the richest 10% of farmers with more than two-third of benefits, destroying thousands of small farmers.

It made a difference in 1991 when David Duke polled 55% of the White vote for Governor of Louisiana.

It made a difference during the 12 years of Reagan/Bush when of 115 high judicial appointments made, only 2 were people of color.It made a difference when under Republican Conservatives the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by over a million a year.

It made a difference when Reagan harped on and on about and demonized Black "welfare queens" when two-thirds of welfare recipients were White.

It makes a difference when these people want to eliminate a woman's right to choose and by cutting family planning funding condemns a whole class of poor women to unwanted pregnancies.

It matters when clean air/clean water/workplace safety regs and funding is gutted.

And on, and on and on-plenty more examples readily available.

You think this is all just some philosophical debate? Wake up, fool, and look around you! these things have real consequences for people.