But they do believe all that stuff.
My father-in-law belongs to the UAW.
They tell him that they only spend 2% of his dues money on politics. And he believes them!
The MSM has done an effective job of trumpeting only the 1% of studies that don't show a link between rising minimum wage and falling employment.
Ummm, putting left shoe on left foot and right shoe on right foot?
And here in Illinois, this year voters are being asked to continue the decade+ of One Party Rule, which has bankrupted what was once one of the wealthiest and most prosperous state treasuries, discouraged business growth and investment, and cost thousands of jobs.
It is the perfect example of voting against your own personal self-interest, and the failure of democrat rule is so obvious that even those who depend on government handouts know it. It would be politically impossible to cut benefits to where they ought to be, but the stranglehold of unions, corrupt politicians, and the democrat party has to be broken before the state can begin turning around.
They ask my BIL, his wife and his uncle to believe all of that....and they do. 6 graduate & post graduate degrees between them and they believe every bit of it.
They all voted for Obola twice and would do so again tomorrow if he was running again.
This notion that all the lib kool aid drinkers are semi literate hamburger flippers and union members is not so. They are just a lot of people that can’t seem to think for themselves.
Some of the Federalists were slaveholders too. For example, Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina (Federalist candidate for VP in 1796) and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist candidate for VP in 1800 and Federalist candidate for President in 1804 and 1808.).
No, they are just naturally gifted—STUPID!