The dumbest working people in America are...

[Playinghardball]

[RKP5637]

1. ... middle management in a large faceless corporation working more than 40 hrs/wk thinking

they're on their way to the top.

[bemildred]

2. Or thinking they are insiders and will be protected. nt

[AlbertCat]

4. middle management...

[progressoid]

8. Classic. n/t

[CFLDem]

11. No kidding

They're the first to get fried.

[RKP5637]

12. Yep, they are just butt covers for those above them. n/t

[sakabatou]

3. Funny, I thought it'd be the Republicans in Congress

[LoisB]

5. "Working" Americans. Republicans in Congress do no "work" at all unless

naming post offices is considered work.

[MisterP]

6. yeah, go TPP!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Low introspection + high self-esteem --> self-destructive behavior

Those voters are all sure that they are going to be millionaires some day soon. There are just a few nasty people standing in their way (the usual R & T boogeymen).

Thus they vote Republican to ensure their millions won't be taxed away.

They have unrealistically high self-esteem (millions due any day now) and low introspection (problems are always outside of themselves).

The other operative principle is that they are mindless social conservatives and let that trump any rational thinking.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. And yet the Limbaugh listeners and Faux Newz watchers are convinced they know all the answers,

while those who oppose them are "low information" types. This is odd as I argue against them with facts and statistics while they sputter out slogans and talking points. We live in a dangerous world when those with the least amount of factual knowledge are convinced they are masters of politics and current events.

Also, you can't argue with them as their worldview is often a belief system rather than a fact-based, rational set of views that can be changed when new information is presented. You can dominate the discussion and they still won't know they've lost.

Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.....

[RKP5637]

13. They are the foot soldiers of the RW regime trying to morph the US into the

most undemocratic place on earth while sputtering their superficial knowledge of the constitution, bill of rights and the rest they profess to be experts there of. In short, they are mindless blobs, but quite dangerous to the survival of the US.

[Populist_Prole]

10. christian fundamentalists and/or gun humpers

About three-fourths of republican voters; At least where I work

Regarding the right wing christians, the ones I'm around knuckle under authority because it's seemingly the moral thing to do. The boss is right because he's....well...the boss. Honor they boss because he payeth your salary and putteth food on thy table. That sort of thing.

The guns are of course, nuts. Nothing else matters. Even if they're intellectually honest enough to admit republicans are anti-labor, they'll point out that some democratic pols are too and that in any case they can stop full blown fascism taking hold in the US because the public is armed. Yeah right!

A third angle is the classic "me me me" one. As long as they themselves are still gainfully employed, they care fuck all about anybody else. That, and the "everybody is overpaid but me" attitude.

I can't stand being in the same room with all these lunkheads and keep to myself unless I absolutely have to interact with them professionally.

[RKP5637]

14. It must be absolutely horrible to have to be even near those toads. n/t

[napkinz]

15. voting against their own interests ...