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kentuck

(111,095 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:26 PM Oct 2013

Which Party best represents the interests of their voters?

I simply cannot believe that the Republicans all across this country support their Party Leaders in Washington? I cannot believe that they want them to block everything and not work to fix any problems. I cannot believe it is because the problem is "big government".

I cannot believe the people are as cold-hearted as their leaders. That they would have no problem cutting $36 dollars in food stamp allotment from the most needy.

I simply cannot believe that there are that many heartless assholes in this country. Do they really support these types of policies?

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doc03

(35,337 posts)
1. The tea party is actually giving their voters what they want, they are willing to
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:39 PM
Oct 2013

kill the whole country to get their way.

kentuck

(111,095 posts)
3. They must not feel that either Party represents them??
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:49 PM
Oct 2013

Probably the very poor? They are the group that seldom gets mentioned by either Party.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
7. Bingo. Certainly the very poor are not represented, but many others also feel ....
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:54 PM
Oct 2013

... that neither party support them. Still others have been sickened by what politics has become here and have simply turned off out of self-defense. I believe the negativism of late has caused a lot of this, in part intentionally.

kentuck

(111,095 posts)
9. Unfortunately.
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:58 PM
Oct 2013

Opposition to everything creates such an environment, in my opinion. After a while, it becomes like a competitive game to them. They must oppose everything. Government is useless to them.

 

Jamiletto

(15 posts)
5. Republicans cater well to the needs of the millionaires who vote for them
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:52 PM
Oct 2013

Not to the low-income voters who vote for them.

1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts)
10. I really don't care much about the Republican's problem
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 03:34 PM
Oct 2013

I am just waiting for elected Democrats to represent us instead of corporate interests and then try to tell us we'll all be better off because of it. It's why I will actively oppose Hillary's nomination and any others of her Trojan horse ilk.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
11. Republican voters hate taxes, racial minorities, and women's/GLBT rights.
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 03:37 PM
Oct 2013

That's what the Republican party wages war on.

So, they deliver what their base demands.

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