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On some level they want what we all want - to meet basic needs and then some - but they've drunk the trickle down economics kool aid as to how to get it. Many have righteous grievances and have been mislead as to the cause and the solution.

It's taken decades to breed this much ignorance and irrationality in that part of the electorate. Who benefits from racist right wing religious extremism? Who gets what benefits from the GOP of god, guns, and greed?

Many Republicans are the blood heirs of dirt poor whites who were willing to die to perpetuate the 'noble cause' of the slave state. Many live in the embrace of existential anxieties, religious irrationalities, and blood lust resentments.

Their leaders have literally made fools of them - while making themselves rich.

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