OK, Explain This to Me Like I’m A Complete Idiot, Part 11: Republican Peasant Voter Logic.

[HughBeaumont]

Our series today focuses on a conundrum which has yet to be answered:

How do voters buy into a presidential candidate's economic philosophy that even the candidate doesn’t think makes logical or business sense?

Let me ask you something. How did wealthy people like Mitt Romney become wealthy?

Did he put humanity over profit? Was he a kind soul, caring of job creation and workers needs? Did he put community responsibility and worker livelihood first and foremost? Did he get wealthy by being charitable . . . or, to quote certain slobbering pundits, “redistributionist”? Did the workers benefit from his generosity in the form of job security or a living wage that met their cost of living increases?

You and I know what the answer would be to all of those questions. Wealthy people didn’t get extraordinarily wealthy by being generous. They never have, they never will; not in business, not in life. Someone who thinks of money and profit when they wake up and thinks how to make more money and profit before they go to bed isn’t thinking about the overworked employee’s mortgage that she can’t make or the wage slave that has to choose between paying the electric bill or buying food. They’re only thinking about how they can game the system even further to gain more money and profit, and that in turn means gaming the government by lobbying, PACs or running for office themselves (see: Whitman, Meg and Fiorina, Carly).

After all, wasn’t it former WalMart CEO Lee Scott that said, regarding the Employee Free Choice Act: "We like driving the car and we're not going to give the steering wheel to anybody but us”?

They don’t steer with you.

Now, if we know that the 1% by principle aren’t going to give any quarter unless they’re forced to (via taxation, which, in turn means they’ll toss some lucre into their businesses or charities to avoid paying taxes), how can they logically expect us to believe that by lowering taxes on the wealthiest Americans (essentially giving them free money), they’ll have some kind of awakening and rain jobs on the poor and unfortunate? Isn’t that exactly what Mitt Romney’s campaigning on and hoping you’ll believe . . . that he all of a sudden WANTS a "win-win" for thee and thine?

So let me get this straight: The best solution for the country’s ills is a parasite capitalist that, via offshoring jobs and leveraged buyouts, ruthlessly plowed his way to a quarter-billion-dollar fortune . . . on the premise that “government needs to be run like a business” and “as a businessman, he knows what it takes to create jobs” when, AS a businessman, he practiced no such benevolence because it’s not in the best interests of a parasite capitalist or a corporation SUCH as Bain Capital to BE that way?

How do his peasant supporters square this nonsense up, especially since he’s already vowed to drastically slash the social safety net, eliminate even more government jobs, institute a voucher system for Medicare, expand military occupations and give even more and more of the country’s largesse to the wealthy, thereby either expanding the National Debt or raising taxes on the middle/working/poor (since there is no way this plan is “revenue neutral” and there’s no way he’s selling out his handlers)??

If this sort of hogwash hasn't worked in 32 years, and the peasantry either pretty much knows this or are just plain too stupid to breathe, what makes them think that ReaganBushonomics on Steroids is going to thrust all of America to greatness??

If nothing else, maybe the uneducated and low-info voter can be reached by this simple phrase on a recent FB image going around:



[font size=”4”]Don’t employ the problem and expect a solution. [/font]

[LonePirate]

1. They believe whatever the wealthy, powerful, white guy tells them.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. It is absolutely wrongheaded to say that Romney didn't create jobs.

[HughBeaumont]

3. "Thanks, Mitt!"

(screams in the background, followed by rioting)

[SDjack]

4. Here is the logic of my Xian RW relative. He believes that he has great

ideas that will make him a fortune. He is willing for the middle class, including himself, to pay high taxes on labor because when his ideas deliver him his fortune, he doesn't want to pay any stinking taxes, just like the other rich folks. After all, the magic idea was his, the middle class had nothing to do with it, and no one but him deserves any of his fortune. He's 45 now, and the only wealth that he has accumulated is gifts from his parents. He gets nuttier each year. On the day of the election, he and select few families will retreat with their liquid wealth to a fort they have built. The reason: if GOP wins, the leftists will go on a killing and burning rampage.

[Tsiyu]

5. So he's a prepper?

Fun stuff. Hope that castle stuff works out

As to the OP, it doesn't seem to be the peasants, but more wealthy retirees who fuel the Republican machine here - and who support it.

The peasants here either don't vote, have lost the right to vote due to the WOD, or they tend to vote Democratic, seems to me.

With younger voters, t's the "peasant in the subdivision" and not the poorest voter who goes with the Republican party, because that R brand signifies purity and morality and patriotism and Jesus - whoever he was....they don't concern themselves with facts.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Kick for lunchtime . . .

[AgingAmerican]

7. Their ideology does their thinking for them

That is why no amount of reasoning, logic, or evidence will sway them. It's that simple.