Not that you asked
I've got to hand it to Republicans, they're the best snake oil salesmen in the world. They tell poor and working class Southerners what they want to hear on social issues, and they lap it up like a horse lapping up water after a hard ride. Then, when they get in office they fight and vote against anything that might make the lives of those Southerners better. They've been doing it, and getting away with it, since Ronald Reagan was elected President.
They say all of the things Southern conservatives want to hear on social issues. They're against abortion, gay marriage, gun control, and taxes. What they don't tell them is that they are for abortion if their mistress or daughter gets pregnant, support gay marriage if their son is gay, and only dislike taxes on the wealthy, not working class folks. What they're for is Bible reading and prayer in the schools and the right of a teacher to pack a gun just in case someone prays to the wrong god. They also believe that when it comes to gay people, we should do to them what Hitler tried to do with the Jews.
For the last seven years their best tactic to lure Southern votes was to be against President Obama and anything he is for. They have kept the myths alive that he is a Muslim and not an American citizen. The only reason the health care law is unpopular is because everyone calls it Obamacare. I'm just waiting for someone to start a rumor that Obama is actually the love child of Jane Fonda and Jesse Jackson. Oops, I shouldn't be giving them ideas. It will be interesting to see how well they do in Arkansas once Obama is out of office.
But as I wrote above, telling Southern conservatives what they want to hear is all that they do for them. In Congress, Republicans opposed Social Security and Medicare and continue to try to destroy both programs. They opposed the minimum wage, and they've voted against every attempt to raise it. They have opposed every tax break for middle and low income workers as too costly, while championing every tax break for the wealthy or businesses because they are "job creators."
Republicans love to say that the best welfare program is a job, but they don't support anything that would make that true. When Democrats advocate that companies should redistribute profits so that workers earn a wage they can live on, Republicans scream, "Socialism!" They cannot, or will not, see the injustice of a company making record profits while paying its workers so little that they have to rely of Food Stamps and other government programs just to get by. They don't think it's Socialism for the government to subsidize their workforce.
The current distribution of wealth works like this--99 percent of wealth goes to the top 1 percent while the other 1 percent goes to the rest of us. Corporate profits and compensation for top corporate executives has risen steadily over the last 30 years while income for everyone else has either been stagnant or gone down. Everybody in a company contributes to its success? Is it really Socialism to expect a fairer distribution of the company's profits? I'm not advocating that everyone in a company should get the same pay, or that the owner of a company shouldn't make more than his employees. I'm just saying that anyone who works full-time should be paid a living wage, not just a minimum one.
If you aren't part of the 1 percent of the wealthiest Americans, every time you vote Republican you're not just voting against a Democrat, you're voting against yourself.
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