Mike Riggen from Decatur, Ill represents the white male swing vote of America. Which is sure to hand over the House of Representatives to the GOP come November. In fact it is now such a sure thing K Street lobbyists have already begun firing the Democratic employees and hiring Republicans. The purse strings, the investigations and impeachment process will be going over to the worst of us. Economic worries strain loyalty for some Democrats
Mike explains he is out of work, single and has children are in need of expensive medical care. Which is why he will vote Republican this time round. Because… Hmmm… Perhaps it’s crank, after all, from the hat Mike doesn’t seem to even know what state he lives in.
He is going to put back in power the very people who caused him ALL his trouble, those who got him into this mess in the first place, and who boldly told him they don’t want to extend his employment checks and will rescind any health care benefits for his children. Back to that old tinkle down yellow rain Mike loves so well. All from the KIND OF PEOPLE who are completely UNLIKE him and only want to redistribute the wealth upwards and away from Mike and his kids.
So what drives this degree of abject ignorance? What is the "strong force" that gets Mike and tens of millions like him to go vote against their own self interest?
Well here is the quote I find that that makes it all clear:
"I think that’s going to be the biggest mistake." Mike Riggens on Health Care reform.
Even with his own children having pre existing conditions, what angers him the most is health care reform, which will better serve him and his children. What is it that drives this "strong force" which defies all logic and reason? Which makes a person vote against not only their own self interest but the health and very lives of their own children? What could be even more insidious than crank? Well other than Fox News and talk radio…
Health care reform is the elephant in the room. It is why we have fought and failed to catch up to the rest of the world in universal health care for over 70 years now. The reason for its failure permeates the very essence of who and what we are.
I am surrounded by Mike Riggins down here in Dumbutt, Texas. I hear it every day LOUDLY and PROUDLY, often with a reference to guns. And so do you to some degree no matter where you live. Uncle Nitwit, Neighbor Numbnut and Crazy Carl in the next cubicle. It is what most defines the Tea Party, what talk radio preaches, what makes FOX NEWS so damn fair and balanced. It is also the why of the NY Mosque, Arizona SB1070, threatening to burn Korans, ACORN and Brietbarting.
What these KIND OF PEOPLE hate so much they will vote for the very people who caused them to lose their jobs, their homes and take away what little safety net they had, is…
Liberals AND a Negro in the White House FORCING them to support Hispanics, Blacks, Muslims and queers through taxes for social programs [oops, I meant ENTITLEMENTS] – which most of them do not even pay.
This Land of ours was founded upon religious, ethnic and racial intolerance. It took a couple hundred years for some wise men in 1789 to try to officially write it off, though the genocide of the Indians, African American slavery persisted and racist apartheid lasted for another 200 years. Jingo and Jesus are no friend of tolerance, fairness, inclusion and justice.