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When working-class people vote conservative, as most do in the US, they are not voting against their self-interest; they are voting for their moral interest of both themselves and the country. .....
E.G. ...they want to be able to control women's choice, even if it's another woman 1000 miles away.
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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Originally Posted by P-Nut
I'm not trying to start an argument or be negative... but I have really wondered why Republicans seem to continually vote against their best interests. I will say that I'm not greatly versed in politics nor am I able to express my opinions on politics well, but I would really like to have a "discussion" on why "well-informed" republicans vote the way they do? Can anyone help me actually "understand" why... not the Fox News sound bites, but actually and honestly why you see things the way you do?
I think a lot of folks have bought into this popular GOP narrative that roughly speaks to one of two constituencies.
So there's either the blue collar white guy/gal with a job or a small business, and it goes something like:
"I work hard, so why should i give any of it away to those welfare cheats and freeloaders (who BTW, are usually 'minorities' anyway)?!"
Or else there's the unemployed/under-employed, again white guy or gal, who uses the same narrative as an "excuse", for why they could easily be "rich and successful" too... if only it wasn't for all those blood-sucking guvmint taxes, regulations, illegals, blacks, feminazis, insert appropriate lib-rul demon here!
Life is always so much easier to deal with when you have someone else to blame!
Ignorant people vote more based on fear than logic. They swallow the GOP BS that the Democrats are going to take their guns, confiscate their Bibles and teach kids to be gay in school
Because some people are not selfish and short sighted, so to you what may be "voting in their best interest" might be something that they don't see as a long term and bigger picture benefit as a whole.
Ignorant people vote more based on fear than logic. They swallow the GOP BS that the Democrats are going to take their guns, confiscate their Bibles and teach kids to be gay in school
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