I am convinced

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Most working-class "conservatives" are economically and politically ignorant.
Otherwise they would not be repeating ridiculously shallow talking-points and voting the way they do.

Everyone of them I know gets their information from FAUX Noise and RW radio talkshows.

Sorry if this is too broad-brush but I haven't meant any working-class RW'ers that know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to taxes, economics, the role of government, or politics.


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[LostinVA]

1. I totally agree with you -- k & r

I have them in my extended family.

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3. I work with them daily at work

[LostinVA]

2. I totally agree with you -- k & r

I have them in my extended family.

[LiberalLoner]

4. That's what I've found too, although I got blasted here when I posted about it

(Was told I needed to get out more, meet more conservatives, and who was I to be calling anyone ignorant etc.)

Anyway, before they come to crap all over you too, I wanted to say K&R and I totally agree with your observation!

[SHRED]

6. I do "get out"

I am in the working-class.

These are my observations here in SoCal.



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[LiberalLoner]

8. I get out too - I see people like that in my own family - see it far too often

in the military, the right-wing frothing at the mouth stuff. I am not criticizing you, I am applauding you for your observatiion. Just trying to warn you that there are people here who will rip you apart for daring to say conservatives have something wrong with their judgement and thinking capabilities.

[SHRED]

9. I know

The military (I have relatives) is especially strange considering that their way of life is 100% government dictated.


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[snot]

5. "A modern economic system demands mass production of . . .

. . . students who are not educated and have been rendered incapable of thinking."
– U.N.E.F. Strasbourg, On the Poverty of Student Life (1966).

This is why conservatives are working so hard to destroy education.

[azul]

11. "rendered incapable of thinking."

Ha. Do some up-to-date investigative looking at memory impairment and statins and low fat diets. The brain is having trouble making connections because it cannot build cell walls fast enough without enough cholesterol and fats. The brain has anaerobic metabolism to protect against oxygen/free radicals damage and cannot keep up with demand for this synthetic energy if cholesterol and fats are blocked and missing. Is beta amaloid protein production induced by this process?

Is there a business interest that would so be in denial of this situation? Bigtime? And the consequences of mass stupidity would be somebody else's problem, or boon?

[azul]

7. If the shoe fits the whole darn group

There are people that want to be told what to do and say, because they do not want to do the homework -because they have a hard time recognizing the facts and what the facts actually mean.

[October]

10. I'm convinced, as well

I've listened to people -- even a few relatives -- speak with confidence (arrogance) and clearly don't know what they're talking about.

What gets me is the ANGER. They're so angry about everything. Such victims.

Most want to return to a different time, and the time they want to return to is frequently a time when Democrats were in office.

Clueless.

[LiberalLoner]

14. Yes, that's what I've seen too! Frothing at the mouth angry and sarcastic and MEAN! It's scary!

[corkhead]

12. My theory is that for a lot of them, it is a byproduct of being dumb jocks in high school.

Politics for them is like following their favorite sports team. Whether their "team" works for their best interests is immaterial.

[LiberalLoner]

15. I would believe that in most cases, but I know someone with a PhD in Physics who truly

believes only Fox news tells the truth and he is one of those frothing at the mouth wingnutters. But then, he's been very unsuccessful in life and in his personal relationships, so even though he brags about having an IQ of 170, there's still something not right in his head.

[Fuzz]

13. "What's the matter with Kansas?"