Reply #120: It's not as simple as you are viewing it [View All]

[Tsiyu]

People here have voted for many Democrats though they are trending Republican. I've voted down here since 1978. Politics is not as important as personality and certain cultural attitudes. At a 2004 fundraiser for our now-vanquished Dem Representative, he gave away a gun as a door prize.

He is very anti-choice.

But in the long run, whomever gets their vote,they always get screwed.

Companies come up and exploit the cheap labor, exploit the resources, damage the people and the land and cry like little infants if they have to play by any rules of safety or fairness or sanity or respect for life.

So a lot of people can't vote or won't vote. A lot of people listen to their preachers. Many make a lot of money off of lax laws, and they support the lawmaker who keeps the laws loose and ineffective.


A lot of people have cable or satellite, contrary to popular belief - which is exposing them to the same programs you all watch - they are anything but uninformed and unwordly in a popular media sense.
In other words, ignorance is not the main problem. Disillusionment and poverty and disenfranchisement influence voting numbers.