Reply #19: Why don't you ask *them* what they are? They'll be more than happy to tell you..

[Fumesucker]

To a big extent I don't blame those of the 99% who are Republicans, there is a massive propaganda effort from the right that quite literally goes on 24/7/365 and it is superbly done, Goebbels would gaze in awestruck wonder at the modern Republican propaganda machine sometimes colloquially known as the Mighty Wurlitzer.

Once you have an established world-view it takes a major blow to your psyche to move it much at all, let around turn it 180 degrees.