Poor conservatives, I don't get it. Righties please explain.

[memphis]

People don't get that they are the welfare queens. All our schools and roads and police etc don't come cheap. We all are beneficiaries. There is a huge state of denial.

[memphis]

I remember one time Bushie mentioned that a ladyfriend of his always voted GOP because she was afraid the Dems would take her disability away.

[memphis]

Htmldon alludes to the real reason he subscribes to a conservative economic agenda despite being poor. And it's not the reason he spent the most time explaining. It's his offhand complaint about liberals wanting to take away the cross.

People used to vote for their economic interests in the South and Plains. Then the Democrats dropped social conservatism after Carter.

Poor Republicans convince themselves that economic conservatism must work because if they don't that means the candidates who are Pro-Jesus are wrong.

Trees grow from the roots.

If the Democrats could still find one, they'd be wise to nominate a hardline Christian liberal--who can adequately sell progressive economics to the Bible Belt. As long as the social liberals in Congress can block any laws on that front from hitting his desk, it will be quite the successful eight years.

Only William Jennings Bryan can save us now...

[memphis]

So it seems the two answers we have are
1. A view that forcing a specific flavor of Christianity upon everybody is more important than their own economic well-being.
2. A view that if they just keeping on doing what they've been doing, one day they will magically be rich.
And there you have it. Why a poor chooses to stay poor.

[memphis]

So it seems the two answers we have are
1. A view that forcing a specific flavor of Christianity upon everybody is more important than their own economic well-being.
2. A view that if they just keeping on doing what they've been doing, one day they will magically be rich.
And there you have it. Why a poor chooses to stay poor.

Seriously?  Have you even read the thread?

I didn't just read it. I summed up seven pages of anecdotes into two sentences b/c that's seriously all there is to it. And the right hates on poors WAY more than the left. Always saying they're poor because they're lazy and stupid and on drugs or whatever. And I never claimed to be an expert on persuading said GOP poors that what they are doing is self-defeating. I'm certainly not a hand shaker or baby kisser. If these poors want to continue to screw themselves by continuing to vote GOP with full faith that the financial system isn't crooked and all they have to do is work harder, that's their own problem. Most poors have the sense to vote Dem anyway.

[memphis]

So it seems the two answers we have are
1. A view that forcing a specific flavor of Christianity upon everybody is more important than their own economic well-being.
2. A view that if they just keeping on doing what they've been doing, one day they will magically be rich.
And there you have it. Why a poor chooses to stay poor.

Seriously?  Have you even read the thread?

The Democrats don't really actually contribute to their economic well being. They just talk about it.

Poverty has skyrocketed under barack obama.

I'm sure that Social Security and Medicare, two landmark Dem accomplishments, that the GOP fights to weaken every day, has done nothing to fight poverty