Reply #61: their disillusioned and disappointed "base" doesn't abandon them, then

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Talk to a right winger, they are self sufficient and don't need no gubmint help. that medicaid and medicare is soshalizm! It encourages people to be lazy. That's why the poor are poor. They just don't have the energy and brains to go find that job out there awaiting them! Or don't move to another state/country where there's work. They don't need a fish, they need to be taught to fish!

Yet these boneheads who truly believe all that keep voting for those republicans, because they know which party tends towards their side.