The moral depravity of the Republican party

Following up on  yesterday ' s post about how rich yet unequal we are, it ' s very important to debunk the common idea that Republican voters are somehow responding to " economic anxiety " or the relative decline in income of people with limited formal education. In the first place, the median income of Republican voters is higher than the average median income. They are mostly skilled tradespeople, small business owners, and even very affluent people who work in financial services or technology industries. Yes, there is an urban/rural divide, but most of these voters aren ' t people living in shacks down in the hollow, they ' re more likely to live in suburban or exurban communities. In fact, Ronald T. Dump did promise to stop immigration, but only from relatively low income and predominantly Muslim countries; and to impose tariffs on Chinese goods. He did those things but that obviously did nothing to improve the economic prospects of his voters. On the contrary, all he did was give a huge tax cut to very wealthy people and put justices on the Supreme Court who have ended the right to abortion, allowed public school teachers to lead students in Christian prayer on school property (but just wait till a non-Christian teacher tries it), limited the rights of criminal defendants, and restricted access to the ballot. The Republican party doesn ' t have any economic agenda to help middle income people. None whatsoever. They want to drive gay people back into the closet,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs