Today Keith asks the question, How come people who are not rich, will never be rich, are complaining about taxing the rich?
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The Clay Bennett Cartoon makes the same point. A mouse is wearing a tea party t-shirt is holding up a sign that says "Support The Fat Cats".
How have the Republicans who are getting the unemployed to help them cut unemployment benefits, who are getting the underpaid to help them bust unions, who are getting those without savings to help them cut social security, who are getting those with cataclysmic health problems cut medicare and medicaid. How are the Republicans getting the principal victims of Republicanism to dig their own political grave?
The answer....
It's Lotto Nation. Those who are not rich and voting against their own self interest are convinced that some day they are going to BE rich.
It's not that you know somebody like this, A conservative with credit card debt, possibly unemployed, smoking and drinking their way towards the hospital, screaming about socialism and Tea Parties, and Fox News, and Limbaugh, and birth certificates.. It's not if you know them... It's how many of them you know.
Keith goes on to analyze these Tea Party mice. There are two kinds, one just a little bit smarter than the other.
The more easily lead are absolutely convinced that they will win the lottery tomorrow. They literally believe that money will fall from the sky and they will be rich and they'll be damned if they will let the socialists take that money they don't have and are never going to get.m The other type of conservative is more likely to believe that he will move up in the American dream scenario that has been drummed into his head since childhood.He is better than those around him and he know that someday he will take over his gas station.... or law office and will someday open a chain of them, and get a reality television show, and he'll be damned if he'll let the socialists get the money he doesn't have and is never going to get.
Keith is in rare form when exposes the "self defeating conservatives" who jealously guard the imaginary riches that they will never own.
Why do the conservative mice go to their economic deaths defending the conservative fat cats?
Because either they do not know that they are mice, or they have been convinced or they have convinced themselves that someday they will become....... cats.