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Originally Posted by crockett
They are getting a lot of votes because most of their base is not voting on reality but voting on what they want to believe. I was at the 7-11 yesterday getting gas and some right wing christian blow hard was in there bitching about Obama being the fucking anti-Christ.
On voting day I was grabbing something to eat at a fast food joint, and over heard two old dudes rehashing those lies about the UN. He's like you can't trust that guy, I read he was working with the UN to take over the country.
I mean seriously this is the un-educated vomit that came out of their mouths. It's one thing to see the wackos of the internet post that kinda shit o a forum, but to hear that kind of shit out of some regular looking person just shows you how stupid a lot of people are.
This was in FL as I'm on vacation at the moment, but I bet I could have found a thousand more that would repeat the same stupid shit. These are the Fox news viewers, these are the christian right that read all those fucking ridiculous chain mails and listen to their "god loving" preachers whom say Obama is the anti-christ. They actually believe this shit and there are a lot of them.
It has nothing to do with common sense or what is good for the country, but rather hearing what they want to hear because they are scared into thinking something that is not based on reality.
The absolute worse of the worst are the ones in the Republican party that go along with this shit, because using this base of moronic simpletons is the only way they can get guys elected to get their lower taxes.
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I agree. I didn't hear that type of stuff from strangers, but from people I know, via their Facebook updates. It was sad in a way, because they were people that I liked until I saw them publicly proclaim how racist, backwoods, homophobic, Jesus-pushing, etc, that they are. I will never look at them in the same way again. Not because they are not entitled to believe what they believe. It's because that their viewpoints are so fundamentally different than mine, and I don't see that ever bridging. It's one thing to disagree, it's another to spout stuff that is just insane, and the lower their educational level, the more they seem to buy in to that stuff that Obama is somehow this evil person.