How dysfunctional, politically, do you have to be.....to vote against your best interests?
Seriously, the proof is in the pudding. Reagan ran on taxcuts....and then retreated BIGTIME in his 2nd administration. Bush1 was honest on tax revenue and got 3rd partied. Clinton's 93 budget passed with 100% Republican opposition...and creating 20MM+ jobs in this country. True, it was a brand new iinternet economy (thanks, Al Gore!)....but who here thinks Al Gore wouldn't have made his bets on a huge US investment in decentralized/renewable energy policy? Labor intensive jobs to design, manufacture, sell, and install a strategically, decentralized national smart grid of millions (200MM, in fact) of small energy producers? Would I have approved of a $1TT investment here vs. Iraq? You betcha! Making us energy independent from the latest CIA puppet in some ME autocracy? That's what Carter tried to lead us to....but there was too much $ to be made selling Saudi oil. Thanks Poppy! So we got selected the Cheney/Bush the Dimmer Presidency. 9/11 - taxcuts - Katrina / the Republican Iraqized CPA plan for the USA. Total incompetence or a competent plan to take down the US Economy? Hmmmmm....same results, still treason.
The fact that Obama wants to even run a 2nd term amazes me. Why would he possibly want to spend another 4 years dealing with a bunch of moronic, clueless dumbfucks who masquerade as a serious political, deep thinking body? ALEC, the NRA, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Teapotists, KKKists, Big Homophobe, and Big HC Insurance owns this Party. Crowded? think of it as a time-share arrangement......
Which leads me back to the 40% or so of the Middle-Class who, despite 50 years of recent American experience, still think voting Republican will make their collective lives better. What's that definition of insanity again?
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Brutal gossip is a cottage industry in TN ( men gossip more than women here ) and you really want to appear to be a squeaky clean church going white male if you want to be elected.
It doesn't really matter if you fuck your goats or cheat widows and orphans out of their homes or cook meth when you're not campaigning. As long as you say "Jesus" and "family values" and wave a handgun around then you APPEAR to be a wholesome sort, and that's all that really matters.
Most Tennesseans who vote do not study the issues, assess the candidates platform as to how it will impact their quality of life, nor do they do any research into the actual positions or past behaviors of the candidates.
If Bubba says he loves guns and Jesus, he can have dead women buried all up in his backyard, and STILL the local preacher will convince his congregation that Bubba is a Gawdly man who hates them q's and n's jess like we do! Yeehaw!
They don't care what a politician does in DC. All they care about is if Bubba is liked by Brother JimBob.
It's a fun system, and this state will forever be at the bottom of the economic ladder because of it. I give up and just observe these days...it's interesting to watch grown adults throw their childrens' futures to the wolves in their quest to APPEAR GAWDLY and then complain that the financial misery in this state is all because "they" took Jesus out of the classroom
