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According to a recent article by Quiet Mike, Republicans like to say they are all about responsibility. Then they turn around and support things like the SCOTUS decision in favor of Hobby Lobby, which takes personal responsibility away from citizens and places it in the hands of the corporation.
Their politicians lied to engage our country in a war justified by a search for nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. Now they are trying to blame the entire Iraq war on President Obama.
The Republicans advocate cutting food stamps, unemployment, education, and health care all while cutting taxes for the wealthy. The GOP has a long history of demonizing poor people. The relatively new Tea Party crowd and the Libertarians have the reigning attitude of go fend for yourself when it comes to providing any type of assistance to the poor.
Republicans consistently garner a large chunk of their votes from poor, white, uneducated voters. Why? What causes poor uneducated white people to vote Republican?
Some of it may be attributed to the many gerrymandered districts. Some is due to the active voter suppression tactics the GOP has been employing not only in the present but historically as well. But those are not the only reasons for this trend.
Paul Weyrich has been labeled as one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement. Weyrich often proclaims that he doesnt want people to vote. It is his contention that the fewer people who vote, the better the GOP chances are of winning elections. In this writers view, some of this desire to limit voting is due to racism.
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/05/18/what-poor-vote-republican/