I admit my confusion. I don't understand why certain people would choose to register/vote Republican. Please explain.
I am not referring to people in the upper income brackets-those making more than $200,000. I know why they are Republicans. No matter how much wealth they have, they want more and they don't care that they are ultimately profiting from the less fortunate. For them, tax breaks for the rich is a good thing. They favor fewer and less strict safety, health and environmental regulations. They are in favor of gifts from the government such as tax breaks for oil companies that continue to register record-breaking profits but not gifts to the poor such as welfare. Why give away money to the less fortunate? They are obviously not part of the few, the blessed, the chosen. Besides, there's no financial gain in giving to the poor.
The rich want the masses to work harder. The more vigorous the lower class labor, the richer the rich become. It's perfectly logical that rich Republicans would prefer a business man in the White House; someone who would reform the welfare system, cut taxes for the rich, privatize social security, and "reform" Medicare; This idea that cutting taxes for the richest Americans will result in job creation is a concept that history has shown to be invalid. We can see by looking back that cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans results in the richest getting richer and the people in lower income brackets getting poorer.
So if you are not one of the privileged rich and are not related to someone rich, what is your reasoning? Are you a dreamer who is waiting for his/her big break which will result in making you filthy rich?
If you're retired perhaps you will hit the lottery big time any day now. If you're retired and dependent on social security and you don't win the lottery, do you really think privatization of social security is in your best interest? How about more Medicare cuts and/or vouchers? Those things may have to happen anyway. If the Republicans get enough power, those things will happen and happen sooner. Perhaps you are just set in your ways and you could care less that rich Republicans think that people who don't work are not important enough to be a concern.
If you are a woman who is not rich and not in relationship with someone rich, please enlighten me. Unless you are a gold digger in search of a sugar daddy. Most of the people who make their fortunes in business as well as most of those who make the laws in this country are men. The guys who are Republican are generally not in favor of protecting women's rights. In fact many of them are trying to deprive you of the financial support you may need to exercise your reproductive rights. They would also like to deprive you of your legally-protected right to choose. Do you realize that the Republican presidential nominee has wealthy backers who would take the country back to a state where women were in a less powerful social/political position? What makes you want to identify with a party like that?
If you are a Republican member and a member of a minority racial or ethnic group and not rich, I would really like to understand you. Maybe you buy the trickle down theory which failed to deliver when used by President Bush. It would fail under Romney as well. Even if they believe in their hearts that this plan will succeed, Presidents don't have the power to force a rich person to risk the money he gains from tax breaks to create a job for you. Living in hope, i.e. denial, may be more comfortable for you than facing reality.
If you are a blue collar worker and a Republican, you probably always have been, as was your father and his father before him. If that's the case you are honoring a family tradition. I can understand that. But it seems to me that the values of the present day Republican party are not the same as those held by the Republican party your ancestors believed in.
If you are a white supremacist, you need not reply. You will vote Republican because there is a black man in the white house and the anger and frustration of your bullying nature would not permit you to do otherwise.
I remember my parents telling me they voted Republican because it was always Democrats that got the nation into wars. In their lifetime that may have been true. I wonder what they would have thought of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both initiated by a Republican President.
Maybe you are a "Christian". You feel that God has a political agenda for the United States to which you and/or your religious leaders are privy. Your love of the Lord dictates that you should vote Republican because more Republicans talk the talk than Democrats. All you care about is doing the bidding of the Lord, conveniently ignoring the fact that the second greatest commandment is to love thy neighbor as thyself. If God' s agenda is for corporations to control our lives; women, minorities, people with disabilities and the retired to to be treated like second-class citizens, I would question the source of what you believe is God's will.
Some of us defend being Republican by pointing out that it is the Republicans who care about the preservation of individual rights and liberty. Whose individual rights and liberties are being preserved by privatizing social security; turning Medicare into a voucher system; taking away women's right to choose; by removing government regulation of businesses which will result in unsafe working conditions and more unnecessary pollution of earth, air, and water? Some Republicans are calling for the abolishment of the EPA which has steadfastly worked to protect our right to clean air and water. Republicans are clearly concerned only with the rights and liberties of the rich and the would be rich.
I really would like to understand-if you aren't rich, what do you think you gain from supporting the Republicans? Please comment.
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