Why should I vote Democrat?

[opebo]

The primary reason is economic: Because you and your wife are workers, and therefore incredibly vulnerable.  You need State assistance or your meager lifestyle will inevitably buffeted by the market (in other words you will be replaced by cheaper labour, benefiting the owners).  Your good health will inevitably depart, very soon.  Age, disease, and death are inevitable, and your feeble salable 'skills' are pathetically ephemeral.  You should vote for a generous welfare state, high minimum wages, unionization, redistribution, and tax-paid health care simply because you and yours will almost certainly need them at some point.

Also, one should note that you are already a very atypically well paid worker - this means two things.  1) it is easier for you to decieve yourself that you will not be effected by the market in the same way as your brethren below you, and 2) there is an even greater incentive for the owners to eliminate or replace you!

As a side issue, your children may die in back alley abortions if you don't vote Democrat, and of course your personal freedoms will be slowly curtailed by the religious.  But given that you're already dumb enough to marry and reproduce, you may enjoy that, and even take pleasure in the fact that others will be denied fun.  Lastly, by voting Democrat you would reduce the likelyhood of your offspring being killed in pointless wars, and of you being killed in retaliatory 'terrorist' attacks.

[opebo]

What the hell is so funny about disagreeing with politicians taking away your tax dollars and giving it to deadbeat single mothers with eight children who don't want to work and keep taking welfare? Especially when you're basically a single mother who isn't interested in taking government money away for the purpose of buying your new 2005 BMW, your 500,000$ suburban home, Nordstrom's clothes, et cetera?

Everett, poor people who used to be eligable for welfare live in slums and ghettos, not $500,000 suburban homes.  Most don't even have cars, if they do, they're old beaters.  The people who have those things you describe are the upper middle class.

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Of course we're unconcerned, as the money comes from the owning class, so it is always better to redistribute it, even if occasionally there is some 'fraud'.  It still accomplishes a good Keyensian purpose.

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Of course you hate hedonists, as you are incapable of enjoyment yourself.  This single resentment is the source of much of American politics.