First thing to consider, if the poor are stupid for voting morality over interest, then shouldn't the same be true for all these smart rich democrats voting against their interest?
The truth may be hard to swallow, but every democratic push for voters I have ever seen start by heading to the poorest neighborhood and trying to get them to vote. Perhaps the truth of why the red states vote the way they do is that they are lacking the elite welfare suckers, the huge numbers of government workers that suck of the teat but are smart enough to vote. The few hard workers there are sick of the rest of the welfare crowd and vote republican.
Above it all, I love how Todd can not ever understand how someone can care more about their core beliefs than their pocket book. Do you pimp out your girl friend Todd?
I think you've completely missed the point of my post.
I don't necessarily have a problem with people voting for the core beliefs...but the people they're voting for aren't serving their core beliefs at all, and in fact, ignore them and their core beliefs in favor of their corporate masters, right up until election day.
Right around election day, of course, they trot out the "core beliefs" again, rile up the ignorants, and blame it on someone other than themselves (when they're the ones who promised to do something about it and failed to do anything about it at all, again)...
Not only the red state ignorant voters voting against the financial interests of themselves, their state, and their country in their drive to vote for or against made up issues instead, but even their made up issues go absolutely nowhere, every...why? Because they are made up issues that no one in Washington will ever do anything about, they're not even a blip on the radar when lawmaking is happening.
If someone actually were to do something for those "core beliefs" beyond do nothing and blame liberal elitists for their utter failure (again), then your argument would hold water...but they don't, so it doesn't.
The important part of my point here is that the ignorant voters in the red states get nothing in return for their vote...nothing except the satisfaction that they are voting against the liberal elites (who aren't even the ones who are failing them, it's the very people they elect who are the failures).
Fish on...
Todd
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