[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by WouldLoveTo

There's no denying that people, primarily lower income who live in the cities, vote for the person least likely to eliminate their benefits. They don't look at other issues. Why do you think people are terrified that illegals will eventually be allowed to vote now that they have licenses? The Dems aren't stupid in that regard, they know they have a huge base of people that will vote on those one or two reasons and ignore everything else.

Exactly. While their vote counts just as everyone else’s vote, it’s certainly not an educated or informed vote. Same goes for the republicans in rural America - one issue voters and often religion.

[nep321]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

People with this mindset are part of the problem.

But at the end of the day, someone has to lead. Someone is going to win an election. Anyone who truly believes that both sides are to blame *equally* isn't taking the time to analyze the actions of each side and make a fair comparison. For that matter, you might as well never vote and never care. And THAT is the worst mindset anyone can have.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by WouldLoveTo

There's no denying that people, primarily lower income who live in the cities, vote for the person least likely to eliminate their benefits. They don't look at other issues. Why do you think people are terrified that illegals will eventually be allowed to vote now that they have licenses? The Dems aren't stupid in that regard, they know they have a huge base of people that will vote on those one or two reasons and ignore everything else.

Then why did an affluent and well educated town like Glastonbury go Democratic? The same thing happened in staunchly Republican Greenwich. What about five term Republican Toni Boucher's loss in Wilton. These and others have nothing to do with urban areas. As I have said here before, these have to do with the Republican Party being out of touch with today's voters here in Connecticut. Jay

https://patch.com/connecticut/glasto...-voting-begins

https://patch.com/connecticut/greenw...-voting-begins

https://patch.com/connecticut/wilton...-voting-begins

[ryanthegoldengod]

Rich people voting for candidates to lower their taxes and poor people voting for candidates to not take away their benefits is different, how?

[WouldLoveTo]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Then why did an affluent and well educated town like Glastonbury go Democratic? The same thing happened in staunchly Republican Greenwich. What about five term Republican Toni Boucher's loss in Wilton. These and others have nothing to do with urban areas. As I have said here before, these have to do with the Republican Party being out of touch with today's voters here in Connecticut. Jay

https://patch.com/connecticut/glasto...-voting-begins

https://patch.com/connecticut/greenw...-voting-begins

https://patch.com/connecticut/wilton...-voting-begins

I'm not arguing that the Republicans aren't out of touch with today's voters. I'm saying that "one-issue" voters run rampant in lower income areas (like the cities). (Thanks kid, for that term!)

I would not say that any of the towns you listed don't put a lot of thought into their votes. I will say however, that many wealthy people will side with giving benefits to the poor because it's the charitable thing to do, and they have enough money to live on. I mean, that trend is pretty obvious just being in this forum.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by WouldLoveTo

I'm not arguing that the Republicans aren't out of touch with today's voters. I'm saying that "one-issue" voters run rampant in lower income areas (like the cities). (Thanks kid, for that term!)

I would not say that any of the towns you listed don't put a lot of thought into their votes. I will say however, that many wealthy people will side with giving benefits to the poor because it's the charitable thing to do, and they have enough money to live on. I mean, that trend is pretty obvious just being in this forum.

Then why did a more middle class town like Wethersfield vote Democrat too? Same for Newington. Jay

https://patch.com/connecticut/wether...term-elections

https://patch.com/connecticut/newing...term-elections

[SAE72]

Originally Posted by JayCT

So you think the state should ignore EVERYTHING because one agency that has an impossible job, received a bad report (like that is even news these days anywhere in our country for a DCF)?

Climate change is a serious issue and the current federal administration is conveniently ignoring it because it will cost them money (and do not even begin to debate this because it is off topic to this forum). There is no reason to not introduce bills that cover other topics including healthcare, transportation, education and the budget. Or do you think we should put our budget problems on a back burner too because DCF got a bad review?

I again ask, where are the Republicans in this? You seem to think that they have no blame in this because they are the minority party right now. They weren't a month ago. Stop the partisanship BS. It is not accurate in the least. Both parties have more than enough to be blamed for and as the recent election showed, the voters saw that and went with the party that reflected their beliefs the closest. Accept that. Jay

I did not state to “ ignore everything “. Logically ,considering the hierarchy of needs my opinion is that an allegation of the prolonged mistreatment of children would be important enough to visit, rather than introducing Bills like the “ education “ of Climate Change , regardless of anyone’s opinion regarding the validity of the theory. This is not just a “ bad report” . These allegations and the asking for a “ complete overhaul of the system”, involve no less than three Government Agencies/ Departments.

The fact that it” isn’t news” is irrelevant. The fact is that there are strong indications that there are children whose needs are not being met. Children have died under the supervision and care of the state. Mentally Ill people have been abused, and employees fired, others arrested and charged.

Our two Democratic Senators demonstrate a great concern for the illegal migrant children on the border, are not the children of CT, American citizens entitled to the same concern?

Where are the Republicans ? Well they certainly haven’t been those responsible for appointing the heads of these Departments and Agencies. They haven’t recently appointed the Judges in the Courts. They haven’t been the ones “ minding the store “. The Democrats have been running the state for the last 8 years. And Lamont has appointed the same head of the Department that has several State employees on trial , and many more fired . With these facts, not theory, the allegations that there are three more Departments/Agencies that are accused of the mistreatment of children, that doesn’t sound any alarms ? If a Republican, Independent, Libertarian or anyone else was in charge, I would say the same thing.

The Democratic controlled Legislature is talking about a $ 15.00 minimum wage, prohibiting employers from asking for earnings history, adding another tax on the working class ( tolls ) , legalization of the sale of marijuana ( more taxes ) and the teaching of climate change in Elementary schools.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Then why did an affluent and well educated town like Glastonbury go Democratic? The same thing happened in staunchly Republican Greenwich. What about five term Republican Toni Boucher's loss in Wilton. These and others have nothing to do with urban areas. As I have said here before, these have to do with the Republican Party being out of touch with today's voters here in Connecticut. Jay

https://patch.com/connecticut/glasto...-voting-begins

https://patch.com/connecticut/greenw...-voting-begins

https://patch.com/connecticut/wilton...-voting-begins

What you’re saying literally proves the point that people in places like Bridgeport and Hartford are one-issue, blindly Democrat voters - those “affluent” communities flipping blue for one election hardly disproves that. It shows that people in those communities can make an informed decision of how to vote based on a totality of issues. I’d be willing to bet the vast majority of people in Glastonbury would have voted red if the democrats were as much of a trainwreck as Trump. People in Bridgeport would never.

When’s the last time Hartford voted red?

[beerbeer]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Then why did an affluent and well educated town like Glastonbury go Democratic? The same thing happened in staunchly Republican Greenwich. What about five term Republican Toni Boucher's loss in Wilton. These and others have nothing to do with urban areas. As I have said here before, these have to do with the Republican Party being out of touch with today's voters here in Connecticut. Jay

So, it has nothing to with the fact that state Democrats can pass out favors and Republicans can't?


Republicans are not out of touch, their ideas work, literally, they create jobs and prosperity.

[Beeker2211]

Originally Posted by beerbeer

Republicans are not out of touch, their ideas work, literally, they create jobs and prosperity.

Well, as long as they can mooch off of productive "socialist" areas of the country.