A poor person voting for the GOP is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders

[Nimrod2005]

A good article, worth reading today...


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In the next five years, the United States and the world will go through some of the most financially disturbing times in the history of the world. Once again, the rich will become very, very, rich, and the unsuspecting will be left like the passengers on the S.S. Titanic, heading straight for an economic iceberg.


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In Thomas Frank's book What's the Matter with Kansas? : How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, which I highly recommend, a poor man reports that he voted Republican because he wanted to get back at Wall Street.


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Midterm elections will take place in a couple of months. The common question regarding the outcome is: Will the Democrats or Republicans win? But the question should be: What difference does it make? Regardless of which party wins, the rich still make the rules.

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/richricher/9775

[Swede]

1. I thought of Frank's book before I even opened your post.

Poor,black,homosexual,middle class,all have voted for these thieves.

[lonestarnot]

2. But they'd rather drive that damned old 1978 8 cylinder air polluter, eat

at McDonalds, are sport that yellow ribbon on their bumper. Heh heh heh :puke:

[acmejack]

3. The article is a joke as is Mr. Kiyosaki.

Both realities are availble to me. I can either earn $70,000 a year or $70,000 an hour (it's my choice) to prepare for the upcoming reality in five years and changing the Governemnt is a "Daydream". But I need to read the book he wrote with Donald Trump. Fuck him!

[niccolos_smile]

4. Your title makes one major assumption...

it assumes people are rational. They aren't. In fact, there was an article in the Washington Post yesterday entitled "In Politics, Aim for the Heart, not the Head."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/17/AR2006091700401.html

Seemed obvious to me, but apparently a study was done on this back in the 30's, which showed that people vote based on emotion, not rational calculation. We may be reasoning creatures, but that doesn't make us rational.