[GPSCC-chat] Karl Rove Wants You to Vote for Obama

[Brian Good]

How does the Republican Party get tens of millions of people to vote against their own 
economic interests and for the interests of the 1%?  It's very easy, as Thomas Frank
pointed out in "What's the Matter with Kansas?"  It's all about the Politics of Indignance. 

Basically, the red-staters are indignant about abortion. Ronald Reagan could have 
outlawed abortion if he wanted.  He had the power.  Why didn't he?  Because killing 
abortion would have killed indignance. They're also indignant about a black man in the 
White House, and Obama's alleged "socialism".

When Obama is elected, his "socialistic" presidency fuels a Republican indignant 
uprising to take control of Congress so that Obama can not possibly accomplish
anything.  (Not that he really wants to accomplish anything contrary to the   
interests of the 1%.)

If Romney were elected, he would be expected to demonstrate that "trickle-down"

works (it doesn't), he would be expected to win the war in Afghanistan (he can't),

he would be expected to balance the budget (he won't).   He can't run the risk of

being expected to fulfill his impossible promises.   


Karl Rove Wants You to Vote for Obama!







 		 	   		  
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