Excellent article! Especially the part about women and farmers - not just in Arkansas - voting for the orange felon and his mob followers.
I have been preaching against voters who vote against their own interests and then complain about it, loudly. Once again, they reap what they sow. I despise people like that.
Don't think that will be the case this time. Even both Arkansas senators Cotton and Boozeman have been voting against further money for farmers. Yet farmers and so many others in Arkansas keep voting the straight fascist line. This state has been approximately 67%/33% fascist since Tucker was governor.
Thx for the better info. Pretty big deal if farmers experience significant business losses. And another article said that China has begun to replace US grains with grains from Brazil. Farmer problems not easy to fix?
We are going to see a crash of our food supply at the same time that money gets tighter. "Let them eat cake" didn't work the first time, either, did it?
This article hits the nail on the head. Some time ago, before Bezos turned the WaPo from a serious newspaper to his personal mouthpiece, causing me to cancel my subscription and move over to the NYT, they published a piece by a political scientist on this topic.
The point was that when people's values and their interests are at cross-purposes, more often than not they will vote their values, even to the detriment of their own interests. That's what we're seeing here. IOW, most Trump voters (excluding the billionaires, of course) know that he's full of crap, and that they'll probably get screwed, but they don't care, as long as the people they dislike will get screwed even worse than they will.
I couldn’t agree more with you, Carron! Well said and hopefully those who voted for the convicted con-man start to feel the squeeze and demand their elected representatives take the necessary actions to regain control of this madness. But I’m not going to hold my breath.
But what to do about the brainwashing? What will it take for something to break through the wall? On another note, there’s now an opera of “The Manchurian Candidate.” Saw it in Austin (TX) last year, and it was beautiful.
Every adult is responsible for what each thinks and does. Each adult owns their actions and decisions. Whether they follow a dreadful, dreadful, dreadful leader or not is their decision. The real catastrophe is if their dreadful decisions take down the rest of us. And thus the decision for "the rest of us" is to prevent that catastrophe. Enough of us must decide to vote for sane, rational leaders. Every time, every election.
white women who vote for trump and the charlies are looking for not to have to get a job..my religion forbids it...ladies, men rarely deliver on that bit
Excellent article! Especially the part about women and farmers - not just in Arkansas - voting for the orange felon and his mob followers.
I have been preaching against voters who vote against their own interests and then complain about it, loudly. Once again, they reap what they sow. I despise people like that.
But those Arkansas farmers (and other farmers) probably will get that emergency funding. That we pay for. So no pain will be reaped.
Don't think that will be the case this time. Even both Arkansas senators Cotton and Boozeman have been voting against further money for farmers. Yet farmers and so many others in Arkansas keep voting the straight fascist line. This state has been approximately 67%/33% fascist since Tucker was governor.
Thx for the better info. Pretty big deal if farmers experience significant business losses. And another article said that China has begun to replace US grains with grains from Brazil. Farmer problems not easy to fix?
We are going to see a crash of our food supply at the same time that money gets tighter. "Let them eat cake" didn't work the first time, either, did it?
bankrupt 6 times ...can also happen with food
This article hits the nail on the head. Some time ago, before Bezos turned the WaPo from a serious newspaper to his personal mouthpiece, causing me to cancel my subscription and move over to the NYT, they published a piece by a political scientist on this topic.
The point was that when people's values and their interests are at cross-purposes, more often than not they will vote their values, even to the detriment of their own interests. That's what we're seeing here. IOW, most Trump voters (excluding the billionaires, of course) know that he's full of crap, and that they'll probably get screwed, but they don't care, as long as the people they dislike will get screwed even worse than they will.
I couldn’t agree more with you, Carron! Well said and hopefully those who voted for the convicted con-man start to feel the squeeze and demand their elected representatives take the necessary actions to regain control of this madness. But I’m not going to hold my breath.
But what to do about the brainwashing? What will it take for something to break through the wall? On another note, there’s now an opera of “The Manchurian Candidate.” Saw it in Austin (TX) last year, and it was beautiful.
Every adult is responsible for what each thinks and does. Each adult owns their actions and decisions. Whether they follow a dreadful, dreadful, dreadful leader or not is their decision. The real catastrophe is if their dreadful decisions take down the rest of us. And thus the decision for "the rest of us" is to prevent that catastrophe. Enough of us must decide to vote for sane, rational leaders. Every time, every election.
And this whole time I thought I was waiting out a storm with the local ladies’ garden club!!! Anyone up for a nice game of solitaire?
Thanks for writing this.
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white women who vote for trump and the charlies are looking for not to have to get a job..my religion forbids it...ladies, men rarely deliver on that bit