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I was recently looking at a voter map of the US that showed how states swung in the '00 and '04 elections and noticed that while Michigan went Gore and Kerry respectively, most of the state's suburban and rural counties went Bush both times. Now having relatives in the Michigan area I've noticed that most of it's citizens aren't voting on the basis of social issues like abortion and whatnot. Most people who swung Bush voted on an economic and foreign policy agenda. For the last eight years Michigan residents have been taking it from behind becuase of free market policy and slow uptake on progressive energy policy and yet they are still voting Republican. Why?
Let's get right down to it. White people only vote for two reasons: they feel guilty or they feel ashamed. Now when I say white people it would be appropriate to define them as Left wing tax and spend middle class liberals and poor conservatives. These two groups will constantly vote against their own favor to alleviate these symptoms. Poor conservatives want to associate themselves with the upper class party leaders because it makes them feel better about their economic situation. Liberals, ie people in Seattle and most of California feel guilty about their prejudging of African Americans and are embarrassed about how their WASP relatives on the East Coast have been acting. They consistently vote to pour their tax dollars into programs that don't actually change the social structure of society but help us all sleep at night.
Now no one likes people who say everything is wrong and then don't give a solution so here's something for you to think over. My fast track way to end both bigotry and intercity violence is rallying rural white poor and minority poor together and through education and services rasing them out of their destitute living conditions. But more on that later
As always, Discuss.
PS the person that left a 1/5 on my last blog post,
Fuck you. Grow some fucking balls its the internet people can't actually get back at you physically don't be such a liitle wuss
