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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRed State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans
Red State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans
One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.
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Too bad we all pay the price f/ their willul ignorance when they send those extremists to DC.
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Red State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans (Original Post)
Panich52
Feb 2015
OP
These people beileve in an ideology that drives them to vote against their interests.
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2015
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elleng
(131,052 posts)1. They're not 'stupid'
or 'willfully ignorant,' they're MADE ignorant by repug policy, anti-education and pro-propaganda. We all suffer as a consequence
Panich52!
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)2. one of the meanings of stupid is slow witted
as in slow to connect the dots between cause and effect.
imo it's more likely that they are slow-witted in realizing they vote against themselves than it is that they are insane.
elleng
(131,052 posts)3. They are IGNORANT,
and encouraged to remain so by repugs. Many of the repugs they elect are 'insane.'
Stupid = lacking intelligence or common sense.
world wide wally
(21,751 posts)4. Sad,
But quite true. And some states like Florida and Wisconsin even reelected them a second time. Yep, the word is "stupid"
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)5. These people beileve in an ideology that drives them to vote against their interests.
It works like religion.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)6. What about us blue states that elect republicans?
Or the red states that vote for democrats?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)7. Propaganda and Group Think pretty much rules the Red States.