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Originally Posted by Ch'i
The republican voter strategy is 'letsseehowbadlywecanfuckupthenationandterroristsatthesametimeism' as in rather than figure out how to evenly distribute the wealth in this country, you bank on whatever puts more money into that top 1%'s pockets.
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I feel foolish even pointing out that this is not how the Republican Party operates, nor does it explain why Republicans are strong among middle-class voters. Some Democrats on my college campus (who are not necessarily representative or all or even most Democrats) have publically stated that you would have to be an idiot to vote Republican unless your family income is in the top 1%. While it is clearly possible that Karl Rove is successfully manipulating tens of millions of ordinary Americans to vote against their own self interest, this explanation strikes me as extremely unlikely. Might it possibly be the case that the middle class actually better understands its own interests than the liberal academics who use them as test subjects?
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