I mean they champion their own oppression….why?
That’s right I said ‘oppression’!
I recently ask this question of my fellow Mississippi voters….
Magical Time In Mississippi
(This had been sent to a magazine, Mississippi Today, but so far no word if they will run it)
Now I see people are starting that very question of GOP voters as well….
When will Republican voters figure out how badly they’re getting screwed by Republican politicians?
— Desperate workers struggle with soaring rents (courtesy of Republican-donor hedge funds);
— lack of healthcare (12 GOP-controlled states still refuse to expand Medicaid for under-$15,000/year workers) is literally killing Americans;
— wages have flatlined since Reagan declared war on workers in 1981 while the merely rich have become the morbidly rich;
— Americans pay 10 times as much as Canadians for some drugs because Republicans block any effort to bring competition to that marketplace;
— at the same time Trump and his GOP buddies in the House and Senate borrowed $1.7 trillion to fund a tax giveaway to his billionaire buddies, student debt passed the $1.7 trillion mark…Yet somehow the “conservative” base voters never seem to figure it out. Why?
Most Republican voters don’t think much about it, but there are two very distinct layers to the GOP. It’s like a pyramid with a capstone at the very top.
The vast base of the pyramid are the white voters who Richard Nixon invited into the party after the Democrats embraced racial equality in 1964/1965 with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
https://www.rawstory.com/thom-hartmann-2665383048/
So basically it is a racial thing?
Well….yeah!
Have you ever thought about what will replace t6he smartphone?
Just as the land line and the flip phone were replaced so shall the smart phone….but with what?
If aliens landed on Earth today and reported back what humans looked like, they might describe a glowing rectangular appendage attached to one of our dangling limbs.
Virtually everyone carries a smartphone today — about 93 percent of Americans — which makes it the most used technology in our lives, second only to TVs at 96 percent. (More Gen Z and millennials have a phone than a television.)
ven more impressive, perhaps, is the fact these things didn’t exist until just over 15 years ago.
And no wonder: Your smartphone has evolved into a digital Swiss Army knife, of sorts. Along with serving as a critical messaging tool, it’s also your web browser, camera and camcorder, music player, gaming console, navigation unit, step counter, flashlight, personal AI assistant, and digital wallet.
Oh, and the damn thing makes calls, too.
So, what’s next now that smartphones are mature and every new iPhone or Android is just a slightly faster and better version of the same glass slab?
One prediction is more screens — and perhaps even closer to (or on) our faces, such as mixed reality headsets that fuse the real world around you with digital information superimposed on top of your view. The other school of thought is fewer screens, maybe with smaller wearable devices, à la Internet of Things (IoT), and an “ambient computing” approach in which technology seamlessly (and somewhat invisibly) integrates into our daily lives, allowing us to return to being present.
https://www.inverse.com/tech/next-in-tech-after-smartphones
Smart phones is as far as it will go for me.
The great mystery of the moodern age is why voters tend to vote in large numbers for parties that will make them worse off, and potentially ruin their lives and jobs. It is the same over here, and the only things I can think to explain it are racism, ignorance, and selfishness.
Best wishes, Pete.
Those 3 are excellent reasons….chuq
Howdy Pete!
This question is the raison d’etre for Ye Olde Blogge. The best answer I ever developed for your question came from sociologist Arlie Hochschild who conducted a five year overt participant observation study in Southern Louisiana. She described her results in a book titled, Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.
I summarized and discussed her findings in the blog post, The Making of the Republican Stooge Voter: A Review of “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” (https://wp.me/p7vabV-22M).
The results and conclusions from her study are, literally, unbelievable, but there they are.
Huzzah!
Jack
Thanks for the link, Jack.
Best wishes, Pete.
Howdy Pete!
This question is the raison d’etre for Ye Olde Blogge. The best answer I ever developed for your question came from sociologist Arlie Hochschild who conducted a five year overt participant observation study in Southern Louisiana. She described her results in a book titled, Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.
I summarized and discussed her findings in the blog post, The Making of the Republican Stooge Voter: A Review of “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” (https://wp.me/p7vabV-22M).
The results and conclusions from her study are, literally, unbelievable, but there they are.
Huzzah!
Jack
My daddy was a staunch Republican and he was a willing slave to Republicanism all his life and he never got much higher than a slave-labor job at less than slave-labor wages.
My grandfather was a Republican until 1960….he foresaw the idiocy the party was chasing. chuq
The Republicans are awake. They know exactly what they’re doing. They want to gut our democracy and replace it with single-party pseudo-democratic autocratic oligarchy like they have in Russia. They need to “prove” that democracy doesn’t work and force the Executive Branch to rule by executive order. It really is that simple.
Huzzah!
Jack
Jack you are right this has been their plan for a long time…..it just took time to0 get the mechanism in place. Have a great day chuq
Howdy Lobo!
I hope that the magazine does run your article. It might could help some of the more marginal MAGA see the light and it will comfort those who watch incredulously as our self-destruction unfolds all around us.
That is the chief reason why we don’t do more to stop MAGA and the Republican Party, incredulity. It is a failure of imagination to believe that any American could be so anti-democratic and that our democracy could actually be imperiled.
The inheritors of the Old South — the cultural inheritors, not the literal ones, since culture is passed on through local institutions, the geography of culture as it were — are openly anti-democratic in the sense that they inherited the belief that only the landed gentry should be voting and participating in government and that government exists to make their lives better.
To get there, they have to make a bargain with the poor whites that MLK was courting as allies. This bargain is best described by LBJ, If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
Huzzah!
Jack
Thanx Jack….I still have not heard from them plus I have yet another post that will go out soon to the major paper of the State. chuq
Thanx for the inclusion….chuq
They lost their slaves and may never recover.