Every day I marvel at how poor and middle class Republicans vote against their self-interests

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107. Not at all. A couple of personal friends are in the 1%

and they are decent people who started and built their own businesses honestly, making excellent products and selling them for a fair price. The real heavy hitters - the health industry, pharma, telecom, insurance and financial tycoons - are in the top .01% or even higher. By and large those people, such as Romney and Blankfein, make their money by what amounts to fraud or swindle, whether it is legally defined as such or not. Not all, but most. The MIC makes its money by bribery, stirring fears of the other through controlled reichwing politicians and thus raiding the public treasury.

Your silence in the face of FDR's quote about fascism being government owned by private interests is telling.

People who do not use logic reason are fools, if not actual idiots. Unless someone is capable of being persuaded by objective and extrinsic evidence, there is no point in engaging in discussion with them. As Thomas Paine memorably said, arguing with one who has abandoned reason is like administering medicine to the dead. And a significant percentage of the US populace wouldn't know logic if it bit them in the ass. Fundamentalist religion and thirty-years of dumbing down via the corporate media are the primary culprits, IMO. As I said earlier, ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.