I think I know why class rhetoric doesn’t work with lower-middle class Republican voters

I know more than a few lower-middle class folks who vote Republican. They’re the people many Democrats just can’t understand. They seem to vote against their economic interests AND they don’t respond to attacks on the rich.

But I have a theory.

The lower-middle class Republicans are much closer to the people who live off the Government than they are to the people who own private jets.

From their point of view, cialis usa drugstore government taxes them and gives their money to people who don’t work and to people who work for the government and enjoy a much more stable, capsule secure, and often higher-paying career than they do.

To them, rich people just aren’t part of the equation.

On a day-to-day basis, they see where their money goes and they don’t like it.

In other words, it’s much easier to resent the people you know, than the people you know only from TV.

9 comments June 14th, 2012