Where you can deny citizens access to healthcare & living wages, then get them to vote for you . .

[Triana]

In AR, they voted 2 to 1 for a minimum wage increase. AT THE SAME TIME, they elected a REPUBLICAN Senator AND a REPUBLICAN Governor, both of whom are vehemently AGAINST min wage increases.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Religious people seem to thrive on paradox...

I know there are some sane religious people, even logical ones, but they're not the ones running the asylum.

[alarimer]

2. Erick Erickson said "Americans are back in charge of America."

When some large proportion of the voting public thinks liberals (or just Democrats, really) are not even American, you know we have problems.

I think they vote for Republicans just because it's a "fuck you" to what they see as non-Americans. It almost doesn't matter what they do.

They HATE us. Obama and elected Democrats don't experience this on a daily basis. So they can't really know what it's like, how absolutely demoralizing it is to have to deal with this.

[cheyanne]

3. Ya know, for years the Republicans had been telling these people

that they were the salt of the earth, what makes America great and that the evil liberals were trying to ruin the country. When the economy cratered, these people said, " The Republicans predicted this and we know whose to blame." It will take a long time for these people, egged on by Faux News et al, to change their minds.

[raging moderate]

4. Illinois must now be counted in this number.

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And that red patch reaches much farther north in Illinois than you believe.

When you speak to these people, you may want to ask them to read the Bible they claim to have read, specifically the eighth chapter of the First Book of Samuel, verses 4 - 22: "Then all the elders of Israel ...came to Samuel...and said unto him..."Give us a king to judge us."...and the Lord said unto Samuel..."They have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them."...and Samuel told all the people, "This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for himself... for his chariots and his horses...to reap his harvest and make his instruments of war...and he will take your daughters...to be cooks and to be bakers...and he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards...and the tenth of your sheep...and ye shall be his servants...Nevertheless, the people...said, "Nay; but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us and go out before us."
I Samuel 8: 4 - 22

I have quoted the King James version, because that is the only true version recognized in their mainly Scotch-Irish heritage, due to rigid angry traditions whose origins they themselves do not understand, because they do not like to read history. I find it especially ironic that, in the next chapter, Samuel feels that the Lord has communicated to him that the best thing to do is to appoint the tallest man in Israel to be the king, because at least the people will be united in following that man's orders.

Oh, by the way, if you hear any of these people boasting that they have voted for an increase in the minimum wage, tell them resoundingly, "NO, YOU HAVE NOT! YOU VOTED TO PUT A GOVERNOR IN PLACE WHO WILL PUSH THROUGH A LOWER MINIMUM WAGE, AND LOWER YOUR OWN WAGES, MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, AND PENSIONS AS WELL."