So who are those 22% who still back George W. Bush?

[Cyrano]

They are people who don’t grasp that “trickle down” economics means someone peeing on their heads.

They are people who had their last original thought sometime between the 1920s and 1990s.

They are people who wish in one hand, spit in the other, and wait to see which one fills up first.

They are people who were deprived of an education and access to books.

They are people who did receive an education, but were first taught who to hate and fear.

They are people who can’t grasp what’s in their own best interest.

They are people who have been targeted, used, abused, and damaged by Republicans.

They are people who are doomed to either economic poverty, intellectual poverty, or both.

They are pitiful specimens of humanity that dream of a world that has passed them by.

They are people who have no concept of the world they live in, and cannot feel the pain of others.

They are people who, sadly, still don’t get it and may never will.

And unfortunately, they are people who despise Obama, our next President, who may be able to salvage us from the wasteland in which Bush&Co. have left our country.

[yvr girl]

1. The Bush family is rather large

just sayin'

[rwheeler31]

2. It is quite sad they are deluded but they are told they are

smart.

[Yukari Yakumo]

3. tl;dr - The filthy rich, the bigoted, and the terminally stupid.

[Downtown Hound]

33. Bingo-but you left out one group:

The religiously brainwashed.

[Cyrano]

36. And there's another segment whose size cannot really be determined

They are people who are Republicans because their parents were. Many of them may have "awakened" over the past few decades, but it's impossible to tell how many still buy the party line because it's been a part of their belief system since childhood.

Many of us are Democrats/liberals/progressives because our parents were. And most of us would have trouble shaking this early indoctrination. Perhaps, some portion of these Republicans find it impossible to shake their early indoctrination.

Hitler fully understood that if he wanted his Reich to last a thousand years, he needed to control the minds of the children (the Hitler Youth). I don't believe American parents had the same goal in mind, but the indoctrination of children is perhaps one of the hardest things in the world to undue (cure).

[daninthemoon]

4. pinheads

[PDJane]

5. they are also

rather selfish and tribalist.

[all.of.me]

6. I've wondered that myself.

If my parents were still alive, they'd be right behind him. My mother was 91 in 2004, and she asked who I voted for. I said, 'Not Bush.' She said, 'Someday you'll learn.' No, ma, someday YOU will learn! I wish they were here to see this.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. The rich and the stupid.

[KoKo]

8. Lunatic Fringe. They are always with us ...but maintain power, somehow.

They call into C-Span's Washington Journal every morning. Many seem to read from scripts provided by someone or some group. Yet, they seem more important than the rest of us because they run our Corporate Media.

[ZombieHorde]

9. What was your last original thought?

[Cyrano]

19. To avoid ZombieHorde at all costs

[ZombieHorde]

39. Trust me, that is not an original thought.

[nevergiveup]

10. My dentist is one

He got a little upset with me yesterday because I started laughing when he mentioned the shoe throwing incident. I just kept laughing. I really can't help it. Every time the scene visualizes in my mind I just crack up uncontrollably. I think the dentist tacked on an extra $50 to my bill.

[Wednesdays]

14. Better watch out

I can't think of anything more dangerous than pissing off one's dentist.



:scared:

[Cyrano]

30. "Is it safe?"

You've got to be out of your mind to screw around with a dentist. Didn't you ever see "Marathon Man" where Laurence Olivier drills into Dustin Hoffman's teeth (no Novocaine) while asking, "Is it safe?" Hoffman can't stop the torture because he has no idea what the question means.

I'll bet anything that some psychotic torturer engaged in this horrible form of sadism at Gitmo and/or Abu Ghraib. And Cheney probably watches videos of it whenever he needs to cheer himself up.

[arundhatiroyfan]

31. I think I recall that "The Shock Doctrine" contains a passage about this kind of torture.

The found corpses in Iraq with holes drilled in their teeth. One of the most frightening parts of the book.

[Cyrano]

32. Yes, that is terrifying. And Cheney has already admitted to giving an

okay as to the different types of "enhanced interrogation" allowable.

[LiberalHeart]

11. No, no, no. It's not 22%. It's 22 people.

[Wednesdays]

12. Got a lot of those around my neck of the woods, sad to say

For the last decade, it's seemed like the lunatics running the asylum around here. :banghead:

[lpbk2713]

13. They're willfully ignorant and I can't stand that.

They spend their days and nights cruising down a river in Egypt.

[woodsong100]

15. They're people I work with

I see them everyday.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. A lot of them are in the military and have no sense of humor.

My very young niece's husband is in the Navy and she is visiting with us now. She told us that she posts on this military forum on occasion and when the shoe incident happened to Bush, she posted a bunch of LOLs. I take it these were military wives and maybe men/women who are retired She said they were very upset with her that she thought it was funny. She received a lot of mean spirited attacks because she laughed. She said she didn't care because she thought it was funny but I will have to ask her if they banned her because of that. I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

[ConsAreLiars]

17. Acutally, half of them, when asked if they support "President " will say yes

and forget the name of <insert name here> shortly after. If they screened by first asking if they could name the US president, the numbers would be half that. They are the bottom 10-11% who know enough to answer the phone and have enough smarts to know that saying you support the President is safer than saying you don't.

(edit to add a bit.)

[pnorman]

18. Phil Gramm was right about "a nationof whiners"

But thankfully, the percentage of whiners is down to about 22% of the population! The rest of us are REJOICING!

pnorman

[machI]

20. The people in that 22% are stupid, of course

[eridani]

21. I think it's brain damage rather than stupidity per se

The parts of their brains that process information on "How would I like it if someone did that to me?" function intermittently or not at all.

[stuntcat]

22. end-times, anti-science knuckle draggers?

I like the "have no concept of the world they live in, and cannot feel the pain of others" also "can't grasp what's in their own best interest." :headbang:

[tomp]

23. they are a danger to others and are therefore commitable. nt

[Cass]

24. A couple of the hard-right republicans I know say they believe Bush did the

right thing by invading Iraq. They still believe Iraq had something to do with 9-11 and that he is keeping us safe from terrorists. No matter how many times you try to explain Iraq had nothing to do with it, they don't want to hear it. They will not be swayed from their position.

I believe it's a combination of being inundated with Faux News propaganda and a team mentality. Once they are drunk on kool-aid the team mentality often kicks in. They treat politics like some kind of team sport and are loathe to admit their team screwed up.

These two statements from your OP are also right on the money, at least from my experiences with them:

   They are people who don’t grasp that “trickle down” economics means someone peeing on their heads.

   They are people who can’t grasp what’s in their own best interest.

[gollygee]

25. Even my really conservative brother voted for Obama

I think the last 22% are hard core one-issue voters. People who won't vote for a pro-choice candidate no matter what, for instance.

[madokie]

26. A large majority of them will be parked at the churches parking lots come mid morning tomorrow

the others are the ones who get their religion off the teevee sharksters, :puke: predator preachers IMHO

[JerseygirlCT]

27. Dead-enders. That's the term, right Don? nt

[Stevenmarc]

28. It appears you've also described

the demographics of the Fox News viewership.

[moobu2]

29. I’d say they were 99.999999 christian of one sect or another

[book_worm]

34. believe it or not they are not all uneducated and deprived of books

A lot of them are people who are well to do and 'made it' and don't want anybody else to make it or touch their money thru tax hikes. They are the true elitists.

[Kip Humphrey]

35. They are people who own Halliburton & Blackwater stock. I know one (my boss). /nt

[Cyrano]

37. I really believe that Halliburton and Blackwater are criminal enterprises

I would not hold (most) of the employees responsible, but I believe the owners, directors and officers of these companies, along with their mentor, Dick Cheney, should spend the rest of their lives is prison. (After a trial at the Hague.)

I also hope that that those who look at you post catch the swastika embedded in the logo. Nicely done. It's subliminal enough to make conservatives wonder why they're having orgasms while viewing it.

[rhiannon55]

38. They are people who believe that the Earth is 6000 years old

and that Jesus is coming to save them from the evil A-rabs and socialists. Chimpy was their Man!

[azmouse]

40. Two of them are my brother and his wife.

Haven't talked to them in over 4 years... Can't stand her and can barely tolerate my brother any more.
People that are so delusional as to teach their young children that boosh is the 'best president ever' are people I don't want to know.

[azul]

41. Mostly authoritarian followers, I should think.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/