Sydney Sweeney does an ad for jeans, media throws a hissy fit

[IcaroRibeiro]

Chrkeller said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

Smart people who vote for Republicans are of course people who benefit from republican policies (high class citzens)

Poor and low middle classes who vote for Republicans are either:

- Dumb who vote for the benefit of others 

- Poorly educated (I.e. don't really understand economy, politics or things related)

-Single-issue voters (extremely conservative, hate immigrants, anti contemporary culture, etc)

- Or workers who think they will get rich in future, and Republicans will be there to protect their money eventually. I'd say this is a subset of the dumb people, but there are the 1% of smart people who actually get rich among those so there is that 

This is very strange in the USA. The states who vote republican are historically poorer, rural with a less educated people (Democrats always won among college educated people). In most countries I follow elections the poorer classes tend to vote for socialist or labors party. This is because even a lower class voter who barely finished elementary school can understand the best path for his own survival is to vote left and expect government to give them some income distribution, free healthcare and housing

You forgot about a 5th group.  Low income workers don't expect others to pay their bills.  Many people in the US would benefit from free college or Universal healthcare, but don't want it, because expecting others to carry our burden isn't part of our core belief. 

This is the first group: The group of dumb people who are consciously voting against themselves for no rational reason 

I'm very familiar with them and don't need to live in USA to understand since there are plenty of them in Brazil, although not in the same volume as in USA

I guess it something cultural, but still strange. I guess not everyone has a built-in mechanism to be sympathetic for the less affortunated which explain the rich voting for pro-market candidates, but I thought at least voting for their own benefit would be the norm