Just a little while ago I listened to a short video by Michael Eric Dyson about the reason that so many poor and middle class people vote Republican, against their own interests. After I listened to it, I had to sound off. I have copied my answer to this page.
Yes we are all alike. We are all being led down the yellow brick false road. They are dazzling everyone with BS. We are all in the same boat no matter what color, sex, or religion we might be. When it gets right down to it there are good Christians in the Democratic and the Republican ranks, but the GOP choose to divide us by claiming they really care about gay rights or abortion. They want abortion to be stopped. I do too, but I don't want those children who are born and not aborted to live in poverty because some rich 1 percentor wants to get one more dollar. They even begrudge a starving child a free lunch in the school or funding social workers so the children who are in bad situations in their home can be monitored and not killed by some greedy person just keeping the child to collect money. If they really cared about abortion they would be funding programs that taught people to be more responsible, male and female alike. I would suggest a huge fine for the man and woman who are foolish enough to make a baby they do not want.
Children in high schools do not have a clue how much they are playing with fire when they are having sex unprotected. Many parents complain because sex education is taught in the schools. Get real. If the parents are too vague and unwilling to talk about it at home, they have to be educated somewhere. If people weren't so greedy and weren't such prigs, there would be huge think tanks about how to turn the situation around so girls and women would not get pregnant in the first place. Teens are treated like babies and they do not get a lot of real facts that they should be getting as soon as the hormones kick in. These kids do not have a clue that they are ruining their lives, the child's life, and all of the consequences that do not show up till the girl gets pregnant. We live in a society where if the girl gets pregnant the boys just claim that it is not theirs. I know there are DNA test but the damage is done by the time the girl gets drug through the mud by the people who would point fingers and just not give a darn.
The GOP convinces the very people who need health insurance to vote against it. A sad thing in this whole situation is the fact that insurance is so totally out of reach for so many people. This is not right. I think everyone should pay their part, But that part can not be a person's entire paycheck. It also should not be cancelled if somebody gets sick. What is wrong with people who begrudge poor and middle class people a decent rate for health insurance. I would imagine that Affordable Health Care is not perfect, but people get real, this is the first effort. We have to have an insurance plan that is affordable for everyone. It should never be more than 150.00 dollars a month and not much more than that for families.
This situation is so sad. I know we live in a sinful world and I also think that for the love of money many people will have a lot to answer for one of these days. I do not see how some people can honestly think it is right to do some of the things that are being done in our government.