i still wanna know how the CommieRATS stole BLUE from the True Blue Republicans and saddled us with Commie RED??? when Trump is in office i want that changed back the way it belongs...
Posted on 11/20/2015 3:06:41 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
IT is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net. From Our Advertisers
In his successful bid for the Senate in 2010, the libertarian Rand Paul railed against “intergenerational welfare†and said that “the culture of dependency on government destroys people’s spirits,†yet racked up winning margins in eastern Kentucky, a former Democratic stronghold that is heavily dependent on public benefits. Last year, Paul R. LePage, the fiercely anti-welfare Republican governor of Maine, was re-elected despite a highly erratic first term — with strong support in struggling towns where many rely on public assistance. And earlier this month, Kentucky elected as governor a conservative Republican who had vowed to largely undo the Medicaid expansion that had given the state the country’s largest decrease in the uninsured under Obamacare, with roughly one in 10 residents gaining coverage.
It’s enough to give Democrats the willies as they contemplate a map where the red keeps seeping outward, confining them to ever narrower redoubts of blue. The temptation for coastal liberals is to shake their heads over those godforsaken white-working-class provincials who are voting against their own interests.
But this reaction misses the complexity of the political dynamic that’s taken hold in these parts of the country. It misdiagnoses the Democratic Party’s growing conundrum with working-class white voters. And it also keeps us from fully grasping what’s going on in communities where conditions have deteriorated to the point where researchers have detected alarming trends in their mortality rates.
In eastern Kentucky and other former Democratic bastions that have swung Republican in the past several decades. . .
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This is impossible.
The natural state of man is to suck on the teat of the welfare state .....
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People can change.
Who turned their blue states red? They did!!! This article is the most galactic collection of delusional thought I have ever read.
It is against economic interests for working people to vote against the welfare, free stuff handing out party? Hey asshats, who the hell is paying for all that free stuff!!? Could it be those same working class people who you have somehow convinced yourselves are better off being gutted by gubmint?
You morons on the left run your states straight into a ditch the size of Illinois and then wonder: 1) why people leave; 2) why corporations leave; and 3) why the people who stay finally reach the conclusion that your policies are just plain stupid.
Which is why they want unfettered immigration from the third-world.
i still wanna know how the CommieRATS stole BLUE from the True Blue Republicans and saddled us with Commie RED??? when Trump is in office i want that changed back the way it belongs...
All of the MSM reversed the colors in their 2000 election maps. Probably because they didn’t want the Dems to be identified with the Red commies.
People want to help. But they don’t want money spent on a drug addict or someone not truly disabled.
People who can contribute to their own well-being should put in the effort.
Its not the sense there shouldn’t be a safety net; it should go to those truly in need.
Who turned my Blue state Red ? Well that a D’oh moment , OBAMA
It is not hyperbole to say that at every turn, Democrats show the most passion and resolve when they’re working to criminalize self-defense, Christianity, private property, success, raising a family, and liberty in general. In contrast, the only people who should like blueness is people who want to prey on you, hate Christ’s influence in society, worship the earth, are covetous, want to indoctrinate your children, and want to rule over you.
A lot of people don’t like that, so they try to vote for people who don’t do that.
Bookmark.
+1,000
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.†John Galt...........
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
i hear that, but it shouldn't be their call the Republican Army was BLUE and we should take it back
If the producers leave, that leaves only the takers...............
I’m getting the feeling that a tsunami is coming for the dhimmis and the crap going on at the academy is just adding fuel to the fire.
The author gives the reasons why people are choosing conservatism over failed socialism but is too obtuse to comprehend what he, himself, just wrote.
Some people in some states (not blue New York) are waking up.
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