Your friend is truly ignorant. For that, he can be forgiven. But for him to continue to vote his ignorance, he should be damned!
He reminds me of a term David Limbaugh used in an article this week: “Uneducable Democrats.”
They can’t be taught anything political or economic because their minds are set in concrete. Only a very nasty economic mess might succeed in jarring them out of their lefty funk.
View what has happened in Europe the last two years or so: socialist governments are being kicked to the curb. Spain will toss its governemnt this weekend. Yet “elite intellectuals” who think like this Taxachusetts boy want to go down the same socialist path to oblivion.