Why the Red states vote Republican (Brilliant article)

[nine30]

The "Spite" voter
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And this leads to another truth that the left still has trouble understanding: Millions of Americans, particularly white males, don't vote for what's in their so-called best interests. Thomas Frank recently attacked this riddle in his new book What's the Matter with Kansas? but he fails to answer his own question. He can't, in fact, because his is a flawed premise. Frank, who is at his best when he's just vicious, still clings to the comforting theory that Middle Americans are being duped by an evil corporate-political machine that subtly but masterfully manipulates the psychological levers of cultural backlash, implying that if average Americans were left to their own devices, they would somehow make entirely rational, enlightened choices and elect sensible New Deal Democrats every time. This puts Frank in a bind he never quite gets out of. Like all lefties, he is incapable of taking his ruthless analysis beyond a certain point.

The reason is simple. The underlying major premise of humanist-leftist ideology states that people are intrinsically sympathetic. If people are defiantly mean and craven, the humanist-left structure falters. "Why the fuck should I bother fighting for Middle Americans," they ask, "if they're just as loathsome, in their own petty way, as their exploiters, with whom they actively collaborate?"

Rather than grapple with that dilemma, the left pretends it doesn't exist. This is why they will forever struggle to understand the one overriding mystery of why so many working- and middle-class white males vote against their own best interests.

I CAN TELL YOU WHY. They do so out of spite. Put your ear to the ground in this country, and you'll hear the toxic spite churning. It's partly the result of commercial propaganda and sexual desperation—a desperation far more common than is admitted. If you didn't know anything about how America's propaganda worked, you'd think that every citizen here experienced four-dimensional multiple orgasms with beautiful, creative, equally satisfied partners, morning, noon and night.
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http://thomasmc.com/0615ma.htm

[DaveofCali]

1. I am NOT liberal and I knew that we shouldve played on their psychology

I knew this from long ago that Liberals shouldn't have been using the same tired tactics over and over again, because they don't fuckin work!!!


YOU HAVE TO PLAY ON THEIR GREED AND FEAR!!!

PUSH HOW BUSH HAS ENDANGERED AMERICA

PUSH HOW BUSH IS ENDANGERING THE ECONOMY, PUSH HOW BUSH IS COSTING AMERICANS DOWN TO THE DIME

PUSH HOW BUSH IS BETRAYING THE PEOPLE PERSONALLY

[drdigi420]

3. we played those cards and were trumped by the

gay hating jesus

[d_b]

4. heh.

[rlev1223]

5. Culural resentment...

..rather than economic interest has always been at the heart
of white lower middle class politics. H.L. Mencken
was consistently brilliant on the subject, and that was in the '20s.
In the 60's, George Wallace taught Nixon that the southern white dems were takeable, based almost entirely on resentment of pointy-headed
liberals with their big words and everything.

Black voters are not immune to cultural irrationality -- gay marriage was a stealth issue that may have accounted for marginal gains in several "purple" states and almost certainly cut into Ohio, where the gay marriage amendment may have given the margin for *.

Essentially, as long as there are Americans, America is fucked.

[Borgnine]

2. People are monsters.

Last night proved it.