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It is common to make the assumption that people are thinking when they vote and they are making reasoned choices.
I harbor no such illusion.
They may believe in the Evangelico GOP because they are against abortion and gay marriage ..
It is all very nice to come up with complex analyses of what is going on. As is often the case, the real answer is quite simple. Most people can't think very well. They were taught not to think by religion and by a school system that teaches that knowledge of state capitals and quadratic equations is what education is all about and that well reasoned argument and original ideas will not help on a multiple choice test.
We don't try to get the average child to think in this society so why, as adults would we expect that they actually would be thinking? They think about how the Yankees are doing, and who will win some reality show contest, and what restaurant to eat in, but they are not equipped to think about politics and, in my mind, they are not equipped to vote.
The fact that we let them vote while failing to encourage them to think for themselves is a real problem for our society.
Republicans do not try to change a voters beliefs. They go with them.
Democrats appeal to reasoning the capacity for consciously making sense of things, establishing and verifying facts, applying logic, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. ... Reasoning is associated with thinking, cognition, and intellect..
No argument I have ever gotten into with these people, (despite avoiding talking to them, I sometimes can't resist saying something true) has never convinced anyone of anything. They are not reasoning, nor do they want to try. They simply believe what they believe. What do they believe?
it's a smoke screen voters the GOP only cares for the top 1%