Sad But True - Unemployment Losses/ Food Stamp Cuts/ Most Americans Don't Care

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26. It's a long standing formula, but "dumbing down" can only be dumbed down so far...

How long can the hustings be distracted by the fact that media forgot to do their job? ...

Dumbed down ("What's a matter with Kansas?&quot may vote against economic interests but they are not the only ones. But, many American's, both "dumbed down" and well off support parties that favour wealth redistribution. We are supposed to have a vision of a society that lives beyond it's own bank account.

From a 2012 article, "Why Do Poor White Voters Reject the Democrats?"…

It's patronising in the extreme to assume that poorer white people don't understand that. I may disagree with their decisions to vote on issues like abortion and gay marriage, but it's a different thing entirely to suggest that when they prioritise those things it's because they don't know what's best for them. Paradoxically, given that this argument comes from liberals, it is underpinned by an insistence not that they be less selfish, but more.

Secondly, if they were voting on economic issues alone, that might be a reason not to vote Republican but it's not necessarily a reason to vote Democrat. With unemployment still about 8%, many of the benefits of healthcare reform still to kick in and bankers still running amok, it's not like Democrats are offering much that would support the economic interests of the poor, regardless of their race. It was Bill Clinton who cut welfare, introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement and repealed the Glass-Steagall Act - which helped make the recent crisis possible.

Now, this is designed to pit the argument against "limousine liberals"… and perhaps the GOP are likely to win the 2014 elections, but maybe not… and not because of what monstrosities the GOP has pushed, along with bobble headed Democrats… It could be due to public outrage, which may finally rear its "disobedience" after the primaries.

I don't have a damned thing to back this up… except that Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can only support the top rungs so long as they grown so fucking much heavier for the 1%, despite how more and more grow at the "base" rungs.