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I’ll go back to the question aimed at the working class enablers of these money addicts: “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”

What emotional and psychological lift do average GOP voters get from empowering people openly working against their own financial interests? Are they really so easily conned by ginned-up culture war nonsense?

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Yes, they are easily conned predisposed authoritarian followers. I am the last survivor of a family that I gradually became aware were perpetual suckers for a really bizarre whole world-view basically according to Rush Limbaugh.

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Yes Rodney, These poor souls that empower those that will enslave them, use and abuse them, have latent bias, bigotry, fear and needs, and all it takes to convince them that something and some else is the source of their fears, and uncertainty, their troubles, and are a threat is a loud mouthed demagogue like hate radio and Rupert Murdoch, and the benefactors are their users and abusers who escape notice because their tools are distracted.

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The family unit has stopped the evolution of the human race! Lunatics, idiots and psychopaths can't raise sane, intelligent caring offspring!

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