Confessions of a Repentant Republican 2
Edwin Lyngar describes his journey from supporting teabaggery to enlightenment. It is a fascinating read. Here’s a snippet:
I finally “got it.” In 2012, I shunned my self-destructive voting habits and supported Obama. . . .
I have a close friend on permanent disability. He votes reliably for the most extreme conservative in every election. Although he’s a Nevadan, he lives just across the border in California, because that progressive state provides better social safety nets for its disabled. He always votes for the person most likely to slash the program he depends on daily for his own survival. It’s like clinging to the end of a thin rope and voting for the rope-cutting razor party.
August 3, 2014 at 1:07 pm
This seems to be small but growing industry: people in the lower middle class with enough morality left in them to eventually make them really uncomfortable over their own cruelty. Not particularly impressed, though. Sort of related to the Republican candidate for governor in my state, Kashkari, doing the “living like a poor man” shtick this week “to see what it’s like” and to show “he cares” but mostly for the opportunity to write and get press about it, nationwide. In this case, he’s very much worse, doing the poverty tourism circuit. Fortunately, he’ll be annihilated in the general.
August 3, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Republican Economic Theory (a. k. a. “voodoo economics”) is a faith, not a science in any sense of the term. Renouncing one’s faith is difficult. A late convert is better than none.
I think that “Kashkari” is the perfect name for a Republican pol.