You Wonder How Many Firefighters, Police, Postal Workers, Union Workers, & Teachers Are GOP

[TheMastersNemesis]

You wonder how many of these public servants will be for Romney and why. He is against everything they stand for. How does anyone explain very deep mental disconnects. Guns, gays and God surely cannot explain it all.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Ask people in Wisconcin

I still can't believe Scott Walker was not recalled.

[a kennedy]

7. I hear ya,....I have at least 2 GOP'ers in our lunch group.

2 outta 10 or so.....and those are the ones that speak out. We all are retired from a University system here in Wisconsin. Still can't believe wanker is still governor either. Ugh.

[RebelOne]

2. My sister is a postal worker in South Florida,

and she is GOP. n/t

[Wait Wut]

3. I don't know.

They're crazy.

I watched a guy have a complete meltdown in my local paper. Called himself a tea partier and said he was a retired postal worker. He went on some bizarre rant about government taking over healthcare and then bitching about his pension...all in the same sentence. I was just grateful that he said he was retired.

[FLyellowdog]

4. Excellent piece on this very issue.

http://open.salon.com/blog/steve_klingaman/2012/04/04/why_some_conservatives_vote_against_their_interests

snip

"As social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics” puts it, those values voters are “voting for their moral interests.” Core moral interests, like religion, rarely allow for rational discourse."

[meow2u3]

12. In short, they were conned by lying fundie preachers who only have their own wealth in mind

Shyster clerics have used God's name not only to brainwash unsuspecting followers, but also to rip them off financially. This includes conning them into voting Republican because they've been using issues like abortion to hide the fact that the con artist clerics benefit the most--financially--from their followers voting for extremist Republicans.

[Selatius]

13. I think they're voting as much on emotional views as well as religious views here.

At a deep level of the mind, people probably also have emotional responses to both the Democratic and Republican parties. In as much as these responses are positive or negative is quite possibly a product of upbringing and of their own life experiences as well as information disseminated as truthful or as fact growing up regardless if it is actually true.

[Logical]

5. I don't consider cops along with the others. They abuse power too much.

[virgogal]

8. There are about 750,000 of them? They all abuse power? Oh my !

[Logical]

15. No, I would say 90% have at some point. False arrest, etc.

[russspeakeasy]

6. It's easier than thinking...

[MrSlayer]

9. I have a bunch of cops in my family.

They are Republicans, all of them. It makes no sense.

[Skidmore]

10. You'd be surprised.

I've seen groups of public employees stand around and gripe because of the way their work is misunderstood by the taxpayer and about how they are maligned and then go out and vote for the very person who vowed to do away with their department or program.

[TheMastersNemesis]

11. I Know I Used To Work For Department Of Labor

When I was at DOL I was very naive. I did not realize how many Republicans we had in our department.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. If my daily interactions are reflective of the general public employee ...

mindset, I'd say a lot.

I have just about daily contact with government employees that proudly state they will vote for romney ... because he's for smaller government and lower taxes for the job creators.

Most recently, I asked one co-worker: "You do realize you are a government worker, right? And smaller government means fewer jobs for ... say ... a supervisor over a single employee; the front desk clerk."

Her response: "Yeah, I know I work for the government ... And to be honest, it was the worst mistake of my life!"

My Response: "Really ... 12 years later?"