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Rich Republicans managed to get poor voters to support slashing the dreaded "death taxes", even though poor voters are never going to have to worry about estate taxes kicking in on what inheritance they're able to scrape together and leave behind.
To paraphrase John Steinbeck, poor Republican voters don't see themselves as an exploited wo…
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Rich Republicans managed to get poor voters to support slashing the dreaded "death taxes", even though poor voters are never going to have to worry about estate taxes kicking in on what inheritance they're able to scrape together and leave behind.
To paraphrase John Steinbeck, poor Republican voters don't see themselves as an exploited working class, they see themselves as temporarily cash-strapped millionaires.
poor Republican voters see themselves as having a future. poor democrat voters see themselves needing a handout.
There's having a future, and then there's expecting to catapault from rags to riches any day now, so better vote against taxing the rich in preparation for the day the catapault kicks in.
You got it. Ain't optimism grand?
Not when it mutates into delusion.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_LvRPX0rGY&ab_channel=FahQue
You ARE so full of it. You link to a CARTOON written by a hard-core "liberal" / "progressive" / whateverhewantstobecalled to pretend to exemplify the feelings of "poor republican voters" (your own words).
You are SO full of it.
Propaganda about propaganda. Bring on the Entergandament!
Lol as the comedy cliche goes, it's funny because it's true