Really Mr. President?

[Lionessa]

54. Problem is most Americans are so ignorant, no one even has to hide their allegiance to these crooks.

Weird situation. I'm homeless, so I seek out people who will allow me to park my 5x8 utility trailer in which I live, hook up to electric so I can try to re-start my biz as I seem to be otherwise unemployable. To date regardless of community, only wingers have been agreeable to this, and I don't usually find out they're wingers till a few weeks in. Nonetheless, no Dems or Libs or Progs have ever offered anything but sympathy. So I am currently outside the abode of a gentle biker, making between $50 -100K a year at skilled manual labor.

He works the night shift, so every evening I come in to cook myself some dinner (he never wants any so yes, my dinner, not ours, and now I am not sleeping with him or even inside) and we bullshit. Every night I try to sneak in a little politics. Now he knows I'm a raging progressive, but we have gained some mutual respect just about general life issues. He's a progressive, he just doesn't know it.

Last night I mentioned my annoyance that the Buffet tax is being called a millionaires' tax, when in fact only multii-mil and billionaires would actually be paying it because it was with regard to yearly income, not accumulated assets. He didn't know this. He's lived small most of his life, he's been fortunate in some wills, and he's probably close to a millionaire though most of it isn't liquid assets, it's mostly land ownership. Once I finished my rant, just a general rant so as to not let him feel targeted in enlightening conversation, he's all "yeah, those are the one's that need to be taxed, not me, and gee, it isn't going to be me if the Buffett rule goes in or the Bush tax cuts for the rich are expired.. ."

Well then I hit with the fact that it's Republicans that keep interfering with keeping the middle class tax cuts and expiring the billionaires' tax cuts. And they are blocking any attempt to get the super-wealthy from paying fair share.

His answer, "F; it doesn't matter, they're all the same, it'll never change, and I'm a Republican."

So then I read this and realize that the ignorant can yet be 100% right in their final analysis. It doesn't matter who we vote for with regard to the economy, all available options are pretty much the same, and anything the 1%, banks, & Wallstreet did that was illegal is being made legal anyway.

Very discouraging.