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In reply to the discussion: What would it take for the GOP to lose the House? [View all]Johonny
(26,644 posts)Where GOP voters lament that welfare pays better than many jobs these days. They think the solution is to eliminate welfare rather than to increase worker's wage. I start to see the fact many GOP voters have woken up. They get the issues. They just think the solutions are to write off whole parts of society. They just want the poor to suffer low wages and to not have welfare or health care. They think tough love is a solution that makes the country better. They are people that lack empathy for other human beings. They are a lot like the people in the GOP running for office. The scary fact becomes clear that their are a lot of heartless voters that seem to enjoy screwing people over without the ability to place themselves in other peoples shoes or to realize that they already wear those shoes. They screw themselves not seeing that the policies of the GOP don't discriminate amongst the 99%.
I have no idea what percentage of GOP voters this is but more and more I think it is nearly all of them left registered Republican. The empathetic ones, the Christians, the intelligent etc... have either given up voting or stopped voting for the GOP. They've created the mythical Teaparty other or the Libertarian other (which are just more GOP) and convinced themselves these people are a better options. They aren't and so down the conservatives go in a death spiral where the last option (voting for a liberal) is never considered because they seem to think they can't consider it. If they vote for a liberal then wages will rise and then Welfare won't seem so bad...