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Bernardo de La Paz

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

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 07:23 PM

Dec 2013

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.

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The dumbest working people in America are... [View all] Playinghardball Dec 2013 OP

... middle management in a large faceless corporation working more than 40 hrs/wk thinking RKP5637 Dec 2013 #1

Or thinking they are insiders and will be protected. nt bemildred Dec 2013 #2

middle management... AlbertCat Dec 2013 #4

Classic. n/t progressoid Dec 2013 #8

No kidding CFLDem Dec 2013 #11

Yep, they are just butt covers for those above them. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2013 #12

Funny, I thought it'd be the Republicans in Congress sakabatou Dec 2013 #3

"Working" Americans. Republicans in Congress do no "work" at all unless LoisB Dec 2013 #5

yeah, go TPP! MisterP Dec 2013 #6

Low introspection + high self-esteem --> self-destructive behavior Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2013 #7

And yet the Limbaugh listeners and Faux Newz watchers are convinced they know all the answers, Snarkoleptic Dec 2013 #9

They are the foot soldiers of the RW regime trying to morph the US into the RKP5637 Dec 2013 #13

christian fundamentalists and/or gun humpers Populist_Prole Dec 2013 #10

It must be absolutely horrible to have to be even near those toads. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2013 #14

voting against their own interests ... napkinz Dec 2013 #15