Why The Hell Would Anyone Ever Vote Republican? - Ring of Fire

[TexasTowelie]

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Hey there, Faren. Love your videos and thank you for everything that you do. Well, thank you very much. My question is, why do people, young, old, intelligent, and in general, still vote conservative Republican? What do they gain by doing? So, what would change their mind to stop? Man, if I had the answer for that, honestly, I wouldn't be sitting in this chair right now. I'd be out there making millions as a political consultant. But, uh, I do have to tell you that I, I spend a lot of time attacking Republicans. I call them stupid. I call them ignorant, morons, you know, and, and, and worse many, many times. But to be completely fair, not every Republican out there is, you know, a, a brain dead idiot. Okay? That's unfair for me to make those blanket statements, but I do it when I get mad. I'm actually not even sorry about it, and I'm not gonna try to stop either.

I'm gonna keep doing that. But there are intelligent people, obviously on the right. The reason they continue to vote the way that they vote has a lot to do with simple wishful thinking. You know, polls have been done for decades now, showing that a majority of Americans, I think it's like over 70% do believe that at some point in their lifetime they're going to be millionaires. They, 70 plus percent of the public thinks like, Hey, even if I'm like literally making $2 an hour right now, don't worry. At some point I'm gonna be a millionaire. And it's that hope that I think a lot of these Republicans have. They're like, well, listen, I'm, I'm gonna be a millionaire. Probably mean, not, not this week, but maybe next week. I don't know. I may hit the Powerball, I may go down to Vegas and try my luck, and then suddenly I'm a wealthy elite and then I don't wanna be taxed to Helen back, so I gotta support the Republicans.

Now, that's just one, you know, possible reason. I think the rest of it is because people do allow their religion to dictate their politics. I mean, that is, that is obvious. You know, we know that the religious right has this, you know, deep stranglehold on the Republican party that tells these people like, don't worry about your financial status. Don't worry that your life sucks and Republicans are making it worse. You need to worry about eternity and therefore you cannot vote for somebody who doesn't want to ban abortion. You cannot vote for somebody that doesn't want to ban the existence of the L G BT Q community. You have to focus only on the culture wars, otherwise God will punish you and you to hell. So I think that plays a very, very large role in it as well. But I think the thing, out of all of these things I've mentioned, the one thing that plays the biggest role in all of it is that people don't pay attention. You know, these issues that I talk about every day, and obviously you're listening to this podcast, so you are a political news consumer. You know, the, the people who ask these questions on our YouTube channel, y'all are political news consumers. Guess what? Most of the country isn't.

So while we're talking about things and getting in depth in these issues and, and, you know, uncovering this Republican corruption and talking about the hypocrisy and the horrible things they're doing, you have to keep in mind, and I have to keep in mind, cuz I forget this every day too. Majority of people in this country don't even know this is happening because they don't pay attention. And it's not because they're stupid, it's because nobody wants to be consumed with this stuff. Trust me, when I'm not on the air, I hate talking about politics. I have actually just straight up left family gatherings cuz people won't stop like asking me political questions and I'm not trying to be rude to anybody, but it's like, listen, I don't want politics to consume my life. I do it for a living.

[liberal N proud]

1. I have asked that question for years

And it only gets more poignant as time passes.

[peppertree]

2. Bigots, assorted extremists, snobs, and the self-righteous

Nearly all Republicans I've ever met fall into one of those four categories (sometimes all four at once).

A few - the best of them - seem to be 'sentimental' Republicans: their favorite parent, or a dear grandpa, voted GOP - and so do they then.

[liberal N proud]

3. True

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I don't get it, either - they have nothing to offer but voter suppression, bigotry and hate

As opposed to any policies designed to help the American people...