A message to those who think that someday they will benefit from GOP upper tax rates.

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51. Right direction.....

This thread seems to be an a attempt to reason with those who vote republican and make them change. I think this is a good long-term strategy, but it is probably a wasted effort here.
This is DU; you won't convert many repubs here, anymore than a post on some right-wing blog will change your affiliation. That being said.....
I think you are right that some middle class republican voters do so because they think they will benefit financially from gop policy. I also agree that they are wrong in doing so. In fact, I would love to see a study showing what percentage of republican voters actually vote against their families own best financial interest. I'm guessing that its in the high 90's. I've known a few 'suit-and-tie' business school grad repubbies who failed to understand the relationship of the standard of living in the area that they lived and their own lifestyle. Mostly, though, I think they were repubs because they felt that they should become wealthy, while the unwashed, non-college graduate peasantry should be impoverished.
Of course, some vote republican because their pastor tells them to do so. I can see this more than the 'cubicle supremacists' or the gun nuts. I feel sorry for Religious Right voters; they are being misled. Their leaders ( at the very top ) are in it for the money. They don't give a s*#t about God's will and most don't believe in God at all.
well...if they do believe, it is a deliberate perversion of Christianity. Obviously , God would not promote child hunger, War-for-profit, or hatred of our fellow man.
The Republicans do.
And so do the Religious Right.
The rank-and-file , however, consists of mostly good people whose faith is being exploited. These are the ones that I feel for. Faith is 'belief without reason'. May God have Mercy on their souls....
Gun nuts are just as misled. I own a few firearms myself , but I know that it is the Right that is more likely to take my guns away. Once the Republicans have succeeded in turning America into a Third World country, do you really think that all those wealthy elitists want a bunch of poor people running around with guns?
anyways, I agree that if we could just wake Americans up in the Right Wing cult that is the GOP, we might get our Democracy back.