Ah yes, this old saw. “Why do those rock-stupid poor people keep voting against their own interests?!”
Call me crazy, but I’m going to guess they have a rather different idea of what their best interests are than you do.
“The people who need healthcare the most chose a man promising to take their healthcare away.”
Yeah! Not like Obama who…promised they could keep their insurance and…then got thousands and thousands of plans canceled.
“The people who need the min wage increased chose a man promising no increase.”
Would these be the same people currently unemployed in the state of Washington after the minimum wage there was raised to an absurd $15/hour?
“The people who rely on public education to improve their kid’s chances of success chose a man promising to gut the Dept of Ed.”
Right, because our public schools have really done a bang-up job so far.
I don’t agree with everything Trump says but I strongly appreciate his preference for school choice. If we want to improve our public school system the best way to do it is to make schools compete. Competition breeds excellence.
But I guess liberals would prefer that we continue simply throwing money at the problem.
Even if Trump supporters were “voting against their own interests”, so what?
When did we decide that this was a bad thing? Rich liberals like Warren Buffett love to say “I’m voting against my best interests by supporting higher taxes”. And when they do this the left loves them for it. They claim that those rich liberals are putting the country at large ahead of their own selfish needs.
So why does this change when the person in question isn’t a rich liberal? Why aren’t poor or middle class people also allowed to put the needs of the country ahead of their own? Or do moral principles now come with a price tag?
Read other answers by Chris Bast on Quora:
- What does it say about Americans when a person like Trump can win the GOP nomination?
- What should we do to prevent someone like Donald Trump from winning elections in the future?
- Can you name one educated reasonable rational American who would STILL vote for Donald Trump?
from Quora http://ift.tt/2jMkJd5
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