Why do poor people vote against their own interests?
Why do poor people vote against their own interests?
Leo Diaz
Other urls found in this thread:
nytimes.com
twitter.com
Ryan Rivera
...
Daniel Ross
Because muh guns and abortion.
Jordan Ross
As long as they get to keep their guns, they're ok with this. I'm fucking surrounded by redneck trump supporters where I live.
Nicholas Walker
He could have had it all.
Ayden Johnson
Because your ideologies dont necessarily align with your personal best interest.
It might be in someone's best interest to kill an infant for a million dollars, that doesnt mean killing the infant is worth it to them.
James Diaz
They're stupid.
Julian Price
What state?
Lincoln Mitchell
Only true answer. Not a single redneck Trump supporter actually understands what Trump is doing in his bills
David Gonzalez
It has been said a billion times, there are no poor people in murrica only temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Aiden Kelly
Europe=/=America
Luke Thomas
because niggers getting all the gubment benefits and fucking our daughters.
Easton Jackson
lower taxes for everyone stupid. Most poor people in america dont even pay federal taxes
Lucas Diaz
I dont know but the trend has been coming to Europe too lately, with the bourgeois parties really slowly gaining traction amongst the work force for some reason.
I don't quite understand it, but I guess its some sort of shame of your class and wanting to feel you're better when you vote for the rich guy.
Brandon Barnes
I never like white people.
Christian Lopez
it's so telling that it's usually people like that, who live in the worst shitholes in the us, think that everyone in europe is so poor, blablabla, and that they're so fucking blessed to be part of the one nation chosen by god.
makes me sad, although it shouldn't.
Thomas Stewart
kinda does actually.
Jonathan Hughes
preferable to niggers though and they are mutually exclusive.
Tyler Gray
There are more poor people in america than middle class and well off people. There are more homeless than millionaires.
Christian Jones
Because you're incapable of any sort of nuanced understanding of the Right.
Parker Ramirez
...
Aaron Clark
As an Australian and outsider looking in, America is such a fucking weird country. Why a poor, working class white person would ever vote for a right wing party is totally beyond me. It happens here too, but with Australia it's basically just voter apathy, in America these people support their parties religiously. American culture is shit.
Josiah Russell
...
Gabriel Perry
...
Joshua Nguyen
Western Leftists have totally abandoned any concern for the worker. All they do is shill for minorities, which is harmful to the native worker.
Lucas Torres
...
Michael Miller
...
Cooper Butler
...
Michael Nelson
...
Matthew Campbell
just in case anyone's interested, watch "the other side" by roberto minervi. went to an artsy cinema with my gf and it was the only thing playing that night.
nytimes.com
chilling shit!
Jonathan Ramirez
...
Julian Price
The fact that you think that statement is okay to say is very telling.
Dylan Sanders
...
Christian Phillips
...
Cameron Fisher
...
Isaac Turner
...
Charles Perez
...
Wyatt Clark
...
Bentley Long
...
Adrian Cook
This. They're too dumb to realize that this is what they're voting for. Tell them, and they will deny it.
Jonathan Williams
...
Jack Myers
...
Nicholas Barnes
...
Jordan Ramirez
...
Jordan Mitchell
...
Isaiah Lee
...
Joseph Watson
...
Aaron King
Because they're smart enough to realize that expropriating the rich will bring them only short term gains.
Logan Butler
...
Jackson Sullivan
...
Henry Lopez
...
John Brooks
...
Luke Hernandez
...
Ryder Moore
...
Camden Collins
What do you fags think will help the poor then? Raising the minimum wage wouldn't. Welfare won't. I hate to tell you but the left has abandoned the Midwest.
Austin Lopez
...
Jace Baker
...
Mason Miller
1. The premise of OP's post that poor people always vote against their best interests is generally true, but
2. In the context of Trump, he was put into power by upper-middle class white people. Not poor white people. The average Trump voter is a white male who makes like $90k a year. That's the top of the bell curve. Yes, richer people voted for him and poorer people did too, but the average Trump voter was stunningly upper-middle class. My interpretation? These are the people who had nothing to worry about. Nothing Trump wants/can do will effect them positively or negatively. If he taxes corporations they're fine. If he taxes poor people they're fine. If he eliminates Bama Care they're fine, if he eliminates food stamps or tanks the economy, they're fine. If he start a gigantic quagmire of a war ala Vietnam or Iraq, they're fine. If he deports Mexicans en masse, destroys families, reverses gay marriages, they're fine. They voted less "for" Trump than they voted "against" everyone else.
Ethan Wood
...
Bentley Collins
...
Bentley Hernandez
...
Connor Diaz
Well, they haven't really, but I get that the observation that such a thing is happening has driven supporters towards, for example, nationalist parties. Which is really unfortunate, because solidarity, even between nations, was always a cornerstone of internationalist leftist thinking.
Another ironic thing is that the economically right wing parties that have gained such traction within the last couple of decades are also, if not more, in support of immigration in general, because for them it means cheap workforce. The average supporter of the largest right wing party here at least is likely to be very socio-liberal, what ever that means.
Gabriel Smith
...
Ian Carter
...
Jack Martinez
...
Brody Scott
...
Benjamin Miller
...
Jonathan Wright
You're most likely one of those "white people", aren't you...?
Brayden Gray
> lower taxes for everyone
Found the redneck republican. They are actually stupid enough to believe this, that republicans want to lower everyone's taxes. Quite sad really.
Justin Sullivan
...
Elijah Turner
...
Landon Bell
No, it's because stupid people are easily frightened and the Republicans know this. So they play off of ignorant people's fear and insecurity and get their votes.
You can lie to stupid people because they never check your facts.
Ayden Gray
...
Nathaniel Jones
...
Anthony Adams
...
Bentley Robinson
I'm starting to think that he doesn't know either
Connor Hall
Deporting Mexicans would be a better way to raise wages than price controls.
If you think that open borders plus a high minimum wage is sound economic policy, you sound so stupid that I assume you're arguing in bad faith.
Jonathan Ramirez
...
Carson Perry
thanks for that.
Jonathan Gonzalez
...
Jonathan Bell
...
Levi Kelly
How do you lower taxes on rich people who can get out of paying any?
Cooper Russell
Tribal thinking is a poor way to live. I don't know what race you are, but if you live in America and believe it should be your race VS whites, it will not be a good ending for you.
Jack Parker
...
John Parker
...
Dylan Campbell
Cause the easier way for bussiness people = more jobs for poors
Alexander Walker
...
Camden White
As if God has a favorite country lol
Henry Ward
I didn't mention either of those concepts user nor did I mention sound economic policy
Aaron Morris
...
Aaron Cook
>The average Trump voter is a white male who makes like $90k a year.
I never thought it was possible to be this stupid.
David Long
...
Wyatt Butler
...
Juan Wood
...
Ryder Reyes
Right, which is why the Republican party scares the poor stupid people into voting for them
Jason Hill
...
Oliver Long
...
Wyatt Hughes
...
Owen Cooper
...
Jaxon Rogers
...