Would you stand with these folks?

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

What kills me is the way the right treats us hourly wage type folks and so many of us still fall for their line of BS. Union busting, the constant whining about labor regulations (OT, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, etc.,etc........). It just doesn't make much sense. Why do so many side with an ideology that is so hostile towards.......well.........THEM?

All I can figure is it's issues like gun control. And, then there's all of the propaganda about "slackers" and "moochers" and what not.

Dave

It is a combination of low information voters electing people who they think are supposedly their champions. Said champions are elitists being bankrolled by Jim Demint and the Koch brothers. The Princeton and Harvard educated Cruz then uses the bogeyman of Obamacare to fool his followers. It has all been done before in the 19th Century by people race baiting and "waving the bloody flag" of the Civil War. That is one part.

The other part is that Obamacare is seen as a money transfer to people who did not earn it by the same low info voters. The GOP knows that if Obamacare is half as successful as the Democrats want it to be that it is over for them. Plus blocking an Immigration reform bill is pretty stupid too. People of color with health insurance are gonna remember who had their backs....so will most whites who join the exchanges. The whole tone of the Tea Party is pre- Civil Rights and anti-progressive.

I also think that this jobless recovery is the new normal unfortunately.....I hope I am really wrong too. It seems Obama at least wants to make life suck less than it would otherwise. The GOP has really no plan at all if you think about it except tax cuts for the rich. You have seen how that went.