How the republicans sucker their voters

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The republicans, Tea party etc are really good at getting their voters to vote against their own interests

The way they do it is to focus their campaigning on irrelevancies such as gay marriage and abortion or on nationalistic issues pertaining to USA being God's chosen country (how much ridiculousness can you get in one statement?).

These issues get their voters fired up and voting for them after which they legislate to look after the very rich at the expense of almost everyone who voted for them.

In short, they know exactly how to get turkeys voting for Xmas
 
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We sometimes fool outselves, don't we? Too much power to the wrong people is a dangerous thing, isn't it?
 
HUNDREDS of Occupy Wall Street participants were arrested earlier today. Many were badly hurt. I find that so sad. It's almost like a black cloud has fallen on America. The very rich are taking over this
country, and most people are helpless to stop it!
 
There aren't any Marxists tying to take over America

This kind of idiocy is a hangover from the time Mcarthy and Hoover were demonising communists so that the idiotic public would support huge spending on weapons

The same Hoover who was whipping up hatred of gays as he went off to bed with his boyfriend

The responses to my original post demonstrate perfectly how the right sucker their voters

Why, you'll be saying you are at risk from terrorism next

The fact is, the most danger to you comes from your fellow American. You are thousands of times more likely to be killed by an American than anyone else. But you don't go round baying for US blood.

This is because you are irrational and the right knows exactly how to play on that to get your vote which they then use to your cost.

Thank you for proving my case
 
HUNDREDS of Occupy Wall Street participants were arrested earlier today. Many were badly hurt. I find that so sad. It's almost like a black cloud has fallen on America. The very rich are taking over this
country, and most people are helpless to stop it!

The "very rich" are taking over this country because hundreds of people (who were breaking the law) were arrested?
 
The republicans, Tea party etc are really good at getting their voters to vote against their own interests

The way they do it is to focus their campaigning on irrelevancies such as gay marriage and abortion or on nationalistic issues pertaining to USA being God's chosen country (how much ridiculousness can you get in one statement?).

These issues get their voters fired up and voting for them after which they legislate to look after the very rich at the expense of almost everyone who voted for them.

In short, they know exactly how to get turkeys voting for Xmas

This is what both parties do. To be a party line voter, and not see oneself getting played by the people one supports, is a sad sad thing.
 
This is what both parties do. To be a party line voter, and not see oneself getting played by the people one supports, is a sad sad thing.

yup. pols are not our friends. some are better than others but one needs to measure the extent to which their goals align with your own.
 
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The right do it more though because right wing voters only need a headline that appeals to their jungle instincts

They don't need any supporting detail which makes the lie too complex to sustain

Left wing politics is much more cerebral and requires a more sophisticated view of the world
 
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