I had an interesting discussion with a patient yesterday who is a black conservative.

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60. There is nothing racist about it. Members of an oppressed group

that has been disparaged by conservatives voting conservatively seem an oxymoron. It doesn't matter if the person is poor, black, Hispanic, gay, female or a member of any other derided group , their choice to vote for people that advocate against them or others like them is perplexing.

Even if the person has been able to get ahead against the odds, through their own hard work and/or luck (almost always a combination of both), not realizing that most from their group (or the others) won't be so fortunate is a moral failure on their part and means their ego has overtaken their logic.

Those that never prosper but vote conservatively, I can only surmise are delusional and either think that they will someday win the "privileged " lottery, or just want to blame others, whether in their own disparaged group or another, for their misery.

This is the group that is the most mind boggling to me for instead of placing the blame on policies and people that deserve it, they place the blame on those in the same or worse straights than them. Yet, this is the group the conservatives are hell bent to win over with their divisive, media driven drivel. And sadly, it seems to work quite well.