QuickHitCurepon
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The only thing I am afraid of is falling off my chair laughing at you. It is a long way down.
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The only thing I am afraid of is falling off my chair laughing at you. It is a long way down.
Chickens don't either.![]()
The only thing I am afraid of is falling off my chair laughing at you. It is a long way down.
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The only thing I am afraid of is falling off my chair laughing at you. It is a long way down.
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Ohh please get back to talking about Reagan and your take on economics and history.
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Ohh please get back to talking about Reagan and your take on economics and history.
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My comment was hardly a "take" on economic history.![]()
Ohh please get back to talking about Reagan and your take on economics and history.
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My comment was hardly a "take" on economic history.![]()
Ohh God a tedious semantic jihad. I just fell off my chair again but this time it was from boredom.
Perhaps because they have seen the impact Democratic polices have had in places like Detroit and Chicago to name a couple.
Cultural hatred of education and love of violence made this mess.
For years, political scientists have wondered why so many poor and working-class citizens of so-called red states vote against their economic self-interest. ...
Perhaps because they have seen the impact Democratic polices have had in places like Detroit and Chicago to name a couple.
Cultural hatred of education and love of violence made this mess.
If government policies help all poor people, including blacks, then red state poor whites will oppose it.
Who doe NOT know this?
Dont those rednecks realize how much more theyll benefit from the wisdom of progressive, neo-communist , statist civil servants...
Dont those rednecks realize how much more theyll benefit from the wisdom of progressive, neo-communist , statist civil servants...
You'd think that since welfare buys votes (says the GOP) the red states would actually be blue states. They LOVE their welfare...I mean, they hate it and accept it under duress...
For years, political scientists have wondered why so many poor and working-class citizens of so-called “red” states vote against their economic self-interest.
The wages of production workers have been dropping for 30 years, adjusted for inflation, and their economic security has disappeared. A smaller share of working-age Americans hold jobs today than at any time in more than three decades.
For them, a job is precious — sometimes even more precious than a safe workplace or safe drinking water.
This is especially true in poorer regions of the country like West Virginia and through much of Southern and rural America, where the old working class has been voting Republican. Guns, abortion and race are part of the explanation. But don’t overlook economic anxieties that translate into a willingness to vote for whatever it is that industry wants.
This may explain why Republican officials who have been casting their votes against unions, against expanding Medicaid, against raising the minimum wage, against extended unemployment insurance, and against jobs bills that would put people to work, continue to be elected and re-elected.
They obviously have the support of corporate patrons who want to keep unemployment high and workers insecure because a pliant working class helps their bottom lines.
As someone who has lived in the south for the past half of my life it always puzzled me why people in this region always vote against their self interests and defend the same people who exploit them . I attribute it to a plantation mentality ...
For years, political scientists have wondered why so many poor and working-class citizens of so-called red states vote against their economic self-interest.
The wages of production workers have been dropping for 30 years, adjusted for inflation, and their economic security has disappeared. A smaller share of working-age Americans hold jobs today than at any time in more than three decades.
For them, a job is precious sometimes even more precious than a safe workplace or safe drinking water.
This is especially true in poorer regions of the country like West Virginia and through much of Southern and rural America, where the old working class has been voting Republican. Guns, abortion and race are part of the explanation. But dont overlook economic anxieties that translate into a willingness to vote for whatever it is that industry wants.
This may explain why Republican officials who have been casting their votes against unions, against expanding Medicaid, against raising the minimum wage, against extended unemployment insurance, and against jobs bills that would put people to work, continue to be elected and re-elected.
They obviously have the support of corporate patrons who want to keep unemployment high and workers insecure because a pliant working class helps their bottom lines.
As someone who has lived in the south for the past half of my life it always puzzled me why people in this region always vote against their self interests and defend the same people who exploit them . I attribute it to a plantation mentality ...
Low taxes, smaller government, individual responsibility and strong National defense.
Explain how these are against poor and middle class citizens interest.
you mispelled 'guano'
lol!!
:d
It's always entertaining when these newcomers pop in and post screeds assuming that unions, minimum wages, etc. are somehow "good for people's economic self-interest", when in fact those things reduce jobs and lengthen recessions.
YEAH! Minimum Wage is bullshit!
Which goes back to the OP's question...Why do republicans vote against their own economic interest? lol
If government policies help all poor people, including blacks, then red state poor whites will oppose it.
Who doe NOT know this?
Your race card is all worn out. Go back to the DNC and get a new one.