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In reply to the discussion: Coal Country Trump Voters Scared that Obamacare will be Taken Away [View all]Solly Mack
(93,325 posts)letting children go hungry. I think personal responsibility involves learning why children shouldn't go hungry.
Why that entire premise (lazy poor, bad parents so punish them and their children) is flawed.
Now, the GOP know this but don't care. Though I'm not sure all the GOP know this - as they seem to be electing more and more people who are willfully ignorant (their former base has become elected officials). Either way, both groups of republicans serve each other. The greedy and the willfully ignorant.
John Boehner got burned by the same base he cultivated after they became elected officials themselves. Even he wasn't crazy enough for them. He spent years appealing to their baser natures to get their vote, and then they decided they could do better.
You feed ignorance you get more ignorance. You feed it long enough and ignorance becomes the norm.
And now we have Trump/Pence.
It's ignorance - all the way down.