Maybe I’ve been wrong about American voters. I’ve just assumed they’re just a dumbed-down, disinterested, unaware lot. Perhaps a socialist path is truly what they want. They’ve certainly had plenty of time to see first-hand what Obama has done to this once-great land.
But apparently they’re liking what they’re seeing.
And THAT’S the most unnerving part.
Yep.. More unemployment and debt. WOO HOO here comes a second term.
Idiots.
People who post on political sites just don’t understand how “low information” most voters really are. I had a woman in my church (who I normally would suspect to be a Romeny supporter) said that she heard that Paul Ryan said some rape was legitimate. They get their information from the media and the effort to tie Romney and Ryan to Akin’s comments works.
The second thing is that you are right. 80 years of the Welfare State has turned a lot of Americans into takers and they see nothing wrong with it. They do believe that the “rich” are sitting around on yachts drinking champaigne and paying 5% of their income in taxes.
For over 100 years the electorate has wanted a federal government that subsidized their need and a sucker for “class warfare”.. This poll is not a shocker along with the fact that a large percentage of Romney voters desire to create a federal government that caters to their needs as well.
Those who yearn for liberty and limited government are a small minority in this country. Free Republic is an echo chamber in the face of a country who likes to vote for those “promising” more or morphing a more intrusive government into their liking.
There are good friends of mine who are convinced Clinton and the DNC created the internet boom of the 90’s and Bush killed it.
Only a solid 8 years of improvement under the GOP is ever going to change their minds.
“Maybe I’ve been wrong about American voters. I’ve just assumed they’re just a dumbed-down, disinterested, unaware lot. Perhaps a socialist path is truly what they want. They’ve certainly had plenty of time to see first-hand what Obama has done to this once-great land.
But apparently they’re liking what they’re seeing.”
Scott, what we are seeing is the country literally “dividing”, as in pre-Civil-War days.
On one side are the “traditionalist Americans” who embrace the “old ways” (isn’t it “unnerving” that the bedrock values on which America and western civilization were constructed are now viewed by many as old and obsolete?).
Across this “Great Divide” are “the new plantationers”, who would willingly surrender [what the traditionalists consider to be] their “freedom” for the security of entitlements and the “protection” of government. They inherently understand that the values of the traditionalists are diametrically opposed to theirs, and view attempts by those of the right to protect such values as “racist”, “xenophobic”, “discriminatory”, etc.
Both sides are entrenched in their positions and increasingly view “compromise” as impossible.
But the determining factor in this struggle will become demographics. Of the two “opposed groups” above, what, by and large, is the ethnicity of the “traditionalists”? And what is that of the “new plantationers”?
Which group is in “demographic decline”, and which is growing larger?
This is going to be a very close election, and the final results will illustrate how deeply divided the nation has become.
If Romney wins, there will be little or no “honeymoon”, particularly if the Republicans keep a large majority of the House and eke out a bare majority in the Senate. It will be a struggle from the inauguration forth. Faced with the prospect of a rollback of Obammunism, I expect the ‘rats to go into “full Wisconsin mode” to prevent government from functioning at traditional levels.
And they (the ‘rats) will have the full support of an ever-growing-larger cohort of Americans. Because — as you wrote above — they “like what they’re seeing” with Obama...