Reply #4: Many people are republicans because they have odd beliefs about

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the American tax codes; they think that something like 60% or something of their every paycheck goes directly to some black woman with six kids on welfare. I don't know why anyone would believe this nonsense, but they have schmucks like Limbaugh on the radio to make this outrageous claims, which go largely undisputed.

Plus, many rank-and-file republican voters (especially rural voters) get all their information inputs from two sources: TV and the church. They watch TV and see sex and profanity and irony and violence and sin and thousands of confusing messages they can't translate. So they turn to the church for guidance, and the church tells them that America and the Christian Church are the same thing; that everyone on television is a sinner; that the world they see on TV, which has no similarities to the one outside their doors, accurately depicts the life of most Americans, especially in urban areas, after the civil rights struggles of the 60's. They pine for a TV worldview more like the one they remember from the 50's and sixties, where there was Ozzie and Harriet and Green Acres and Bewitched and The Brady Bunch and myriad other shows depicting an irony-free, clean-living, affluent, all-caucasian world. These types can't differentiate between the real world and the world they see on television, so they naturally assume that the world has gone BATSHIT NUTS.

In other words, republicans are like recently caged zoo anmials, easily scared by bright lights and loud noises and honesty.