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YoungDemCA

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8. I suspect many of them feel that they are "stakeholders" or "taxpayers"...

Reply to spooky3 (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 05:34 PM

Jan 2013

...who earned[/i ]everything they have, but somehow the "others" (ie not them or people like them) didn't earn their benefits.

Perhaps it has to do with the older white American population, on average, generally being more right-wing/conservative overall, especially when it comes to issues of race, gender roles, cultural norms, and religious beliefs. Some of them pine for the "good old days" of the 40s or 50s or even the 80s (Reagan era), selectively forgetting or ignoring the bad parts of those decades.

Maybe it has to do with the concentration of older white people in more conservative areas of the country, like the South or parts of the Midwest. Who knows?

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I don't get right-wing "logic" regarding the richest Americans... [View all] YoungDemCA Jan 2013 OP

We're definitely one of the few nations where the haves and the have mores are jealous of our poor. HughBeaumont Jan 2013 #1

I don't get right-wing "logic" regarding the richest Americans Flashmann Jan 2013 #2

I don't get the Right Wing Idiots who are poor who go along with this! hamsterjill Jan 2013 #3

Part of it is some of these people actually believe they're going to be rich some day deutsey Jan 2013 #6

It's for obfuscation of any other option... JHB Jan 2013 #4

The group that puzzles me most is the over-65 population. spooky3 Jan 2013 #5

I suspect many of them feel that they are "stakeholders" or "taxpayers"... YoungDemCA Jan 2013 #8

I agree. I wish the Dems would study this spooky3 Jan 2013 #10

Rich people trying to convince stupid people that poor people are partying & living it up on welfare JaneyVee Jan 2013 #7

Let's do away with ALL the whining with a flat tax ddtully Jan 2013 #9

On the flat tax.... librabear Jan 2013 #11